The Complete Best of Bridge Cookbooks: All 350 Recipes from Winners and Grand Slam - Couverture souple

The Editors Of Best Of Bridge

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ISBN 10 : 0778802531 ISBN 13 : 9780778802532

Editeur : Robert Rose, 2010

Synopsis

An all-new collection of Bridge favorites.

Now available for the first time in one collectible and comprehensive volume, all the recipes from the third and fourth books originally published by Best of Bridge Publishing Ltd. These two books, Grand Slam: More Recipes from the Best of Bridge and Winners: More Recipes from the Best of Bridge, are still as popular as ever and are part of Canadian cookbook history.

These treasured recipes were enjoyed by thousands of Canadians a generation ago and can now be enjoyed by a whole new generation who want simple recipes with gourmet results.

Like The Complete Best of Bridge, Volume 1, it features an easy-to-use hardcover, concealed wire-o format, combined with new photography and updated text, that all give a nod to the needs of today's cook. But rest assured, there have been no changes made to the original recipes.

So whether you're looking to complete your Bridge cookbook collection or simply want to include tried and true recipes in your cooking repertoire, you'll find all this and more in this new collection.

The Best of Bridge cookbooks have over 3,500,000 copies in print.

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About The Ladies of the Best of Bridge

In 1975, at a weekend getaway, eight women friends had an idea: Since a consistent highlight of their decade-old bridge group was the food they prepared and shared together, perhaps they should think about writing a cookbook. This spur-of-the-moment notion was the impetus for The Best of Bridge, which went on to become one of the most successful brands in Canadian publishing.

From the outset, "The Ladies of the Best of Bridge," as they like to be known, had a unconventional vision of how their business would be run. It would be a partnership of equals, a celebration of friendship and -- perhaps most of all -- it would be fun. The bank manager who approved their first loan warned them they would never stay friends. They vowed to prove him wrong.

More than 30 years and three million copies later, the ladies are enjoying the last laugh. In addition to creating a phenomenally successful business, they have remained close friends with fond memories of all the good times they've shared. "We had a lot of fun," they say now. "And the media loved us because we were just regular mothers who showed up wearing matching aprons. Sometimes people were astonished that the recipes actually worked, which amazed us because we knew what we were doing."

Not surprisingly, from time to time, life intervened to rock their idyll. "Like a large family, we've experienced everything -- divorce, major illness and deaths," they comment. Not only have they lost parents, husbands and children, two of the partners are deceased.

But the brand lives on -- not only in kitchens, but also in the hearts and minds of Canadians from coast to coast. Written in a welcoming style, the recipes are easy to execute, yet produce "gour

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robert Rose
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0778802531
• ISBN 13: 9780778802532
• Reliure: Couverture à spirales
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible