A collection of recipes ranging from quick & simple to more complex. The book covers many different types of cuisine. Italian (including: basic tomato sauce, handmade gnocchi, rice balls and spedini), French (including: mussels and french onion soup), All-American (including: buffalo chicken, chicken pot pie and homemade pancakes) and others (including: popovers, sweet potato ravioli, pesto pasta, linguini alle vongole and cream puffs). There are recipes for cooks at all skill levels. The book includes nearly 60 recipes and:

- Photographs of more than 50 recipes.
- A listing of basic pantry, fridge and freezer items that should be kept on-hand so that you can quickly and easily create these dishes
- Step-by-step "Game Plans" for entertaining that walk you through the meal creation process day by day, hour by hour.
- A handy index for quickly looking up your favorite recipe.

Feel free to e-mail me with questions: liabuffa@aol.com.

And please, if you do buy the book and make some recipes, let me know how they turn out.