Six OClock Scramble or Cheese

Six O'Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families

Author: Aviva Goldfarb

Six o'clock looms, and dinner has to be on the table pronto -- the kids don't care if you've just come home from work exhausted and out of ideas or spent the afternoon ferrying them from school to playdate to tae kwon do practice. The Scramble to the rescue! Each week's worth of recipes is utterly organized, easy-to-prepare and designed to please both adult tastes and finicky children's palates. Everything is homemade, with a clever reliance on just enough prepared or packaged -- but never fake -- foods. Inventive, flavorful, and healthy are Aviva Goldfarb's watchwords; her Scramble recipes include:

• Recipes that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less
• Weekly menus so parents need only shop once a week
• Vegetarian main course options each week
• Meals that kids can help prepare
• Fun foods for lunchboxes, after-school snacks, or weekend get-togethers
• Complete nutritional information for each recipe
• Dinners like Honey-Glazed Salmon and Easy Chicken Pot-Pie that will please the whole family

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Cheese: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best

Author: Max McCalman

Filled with indispensable information from America's foremost authority, Max McCalman, Cheese: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best is your road map to exploring the world of fine cheese. As the maitre fromager at New York's acclaimed Picholine restaurant (the first in the country to offer a serious cheese program) and author of the widely acclaimed The Cheese Plate, McCalman has selected, tasted, and studied hundreds of cheeses, serving them to thousands of cheese lovers. And now he has created the definitive reference on the subject. Cheese profiles about 200 of the world's best cheeses--and only the best--complete with all the practical information you could need and all the fascinating details you could want.

An incredible variety of real cheeses from around the world--including right here in the United States--are becoming more widely available. From distinguished Cabrales to oozing Reblochon and buttery Fontina d'Aosta, real cheese can rival the most spectacular creations of chefs, and all you have to do is buy the good stuff and serve it properly. Cheese is the ultimate guide to doing just that. Profiles of the cheeses include not only McCalman's evocative descriptions but fascinating information on how each cheese is made, who the best producers are, similar cheeses to seek out, and even tips on what time of year the cheese is at its peak, how to store it, and how to serve it for maximum enjoyment.

Of course, wine is cheese's favorite companion, so McCalman taste-tested thousands of wine and cheese combinations to offer unprecedented guidance on exactly which wines are most compatible with each and every cheese.

From the A of Aarauer Bierdeckel tothe Z of Zamorano, Cheese is an illuminating, seductive guide to the very best that the world's cheesemakers have to offer.

Publishers Weekly

Domestic production of quality artisanal cheeses is on the rise, and the recent opening of the Artisanal Cheese Center in New York has helped make these and traditional European farmstead cheeses even more widely available. McCalman takes credit for spearheading this American cheese revolution through his work at the New York restaurants Picholine and Artisanal. While his and Gibbons's first book, 2002's The Cheese Plate, was highly regarded by industry professionals as a practical guide to serving European-style cheese courses and selecting astute wine pairings, this new work aims to be what the Parker Guide is for wine-complete with a numeric rating scale-for would-be connoisseurs. It provides detailed notes on producers, taste and appearance, stages of ripeness and seasonal availability, as well as pairing suggestions on nearly twice as many unique and wonderful cheeses as the previous book. Unfortunately, the cheeses are arranged alphabetically rather than regionally, limiting the book's utility as a reference. Granted, Cheese does not profess to be comprehensive like Steve Jenkins's unrivaled Cheese Primer, but rather an elite selection, or cheese "Hall of Fame." In the end, it succeeds more as a beautiful glossy catalogue to the Artisanal Cheese Center than as an introductory text. (On sale Aug. 9) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

New York City's Artisanal restaurant is famous for its many dishes featuring a variety of interesting and unusual fine cheeses. The restaurant's in-house expert, McCalman has once again teamed up with freelance writer Gibbons (The Cheese Plate) to delve into the world of cheese. As the title suggests, the book focuses on the best cheeses that meet-or come close to meeting-McCalman's ideals of being handmade by a farm or small dairy, ecologically sound, and organic. One-page profiles rate about 200 different cheeses (depicted with full-color photographs), noting provenance, production methods, and physical appearance. Also included are suggestions for shopping, storage, and wine pairings, as well as instructions on how to assemble the perfect cheese plate. Given the criteria for inclusion, this is not a comprehensive guide but rather a highly selective directory. Several cheeses will be hard to come by outside of major U.S. metropolitan areas. For this reason, a list of retail or even mail-order sources would have been a welcome addition. For special collections and large public libraries.-Andrea R. Dietze, Orange Cty. P.L., Santa Ana, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.