UPPER CRUSTS: 150 Fabulous Ways to Use Left over Bread: Capital Books Inc, April 2007.

For her 25th book, UPPER CRUSTS: Fabulous Ways to Use Bread--cooking teacher, author, and food editor, Sheilah Kaufman, features one of America’s favorite comfort foods as the main ingredient. Specializing for 38 years in taking the intimidation out of cooking and entertaining--this  delightful new collection, published by Capital Books, offers easy-to-prepare recipes for simply delectable appetizers, salads, soups, vegetable and main dishes, desserts and more for elegant celebrations and warm family gatherings. “… with homey and surprising flavors like these, you may end up buying bread just to let it go stale," said Claudia Kousoulas, Appetite for Books.

Chapters include: Bread Crumbs; Bread Salads; Bread Soups; Bread as a Container; Sweet and Savory Bread Puddings; Fabulous French Toast; Delectable Others.
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For those looking for "new traditional recipes" there is a new world of kosher cooking awaiting you. All of the international recipes in this book have several things in common:

• Almost every dish can be prepared in under 30 minutes using techniques that are familiar to just about every home cook.
• Each and every recipe, from the appetizers to the desserts, are well suited for the most elegant of dinner parties, kosher or not.
• Each dish heathfully breaks away from "traditional" ingredients (e.g., chicken fat), and cooking techniques (frying).
• Most dishes can be made ahead or frozen.
• The book's uncomplicated style makes gourmet recipes so easy to follow that even a novice cook won't feel intimidated.

SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE reflects my philosophy of serving good food to family and friends without becoming a kitchen slave. It includes approximately 200 easy-to-prepare gourmet recipes from around the world culled from my extensive travels as a cooking instructor and lecturer, as well as those I have adapted from friends and teachers.

For almost 36 years, my cookbooks have been in demand by those seeking easy, elegant, innovative dishes. My fearless fussless approach to food preparation has enhanced the popularity of the books. Novices as well as experienced chefs appreciate and enjoy the user friendly presentation of the recipes in a way that demystifies the basics of cooking. Those with dietary restrictions, those who cook kosher, and those who enjoy ethnic dishes find a diversity of choices in my books and have enhanced my popularity as a speaker and workshop presenter throughout the country.

Unlike most cookbooks, SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE is spiced with dozens of invaluable cooking and baking hints, such as:

• When measuring flour, never use a liquid (pyrex cup or one with a spout) measuring cup. You cannot get an accurate measure. Use the individual cups but do not dip them into the flour. Using another cup or a spoon, place the loose flour into the right sized measuring cup heaping it in, and level the top with a knife. Sugar should be done the same way. Liquids should always be measured in a liquid measuring cup (one with a spout) and never in the individual cups as it will not be accurate.
• Any vegetable that grows underground (potatoes, beets, carrots) should be started cooking in cold water. Any vegetable that grows aboveground (peas, beans, corn) should be started in boiling water.
• Fresh tomatoes keep longer if stored with the stems down.
• Tomatoes cut vertically "bleed" less.
• Herbs and spices that come in jars or cans must be crushed in your hands to release their flavor--it takes heat and pressure to release the oil that contains the flavor.
• Herbs and spices will keep their flavor longer it they are stored away from heat (like the stove).
• To keep bananas fresh for longer periods, wrap each one in its peel in aluminum foil and store in the vegetable bin of your refrigerator. Bananas stored in this manner will keep for up to three weeks.

Purchase Information:
To order SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE send a check for $17.95 plus $3 for shipping to:

Kaufman's Cupboard
10508 Tyler Terrace
Potomac, Maryland 20854

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"Sheilah is a well trained cook who has so many useful tips and suggestions, her recipes are fabulous, and I've given her cookbook to many friends."

"Dear Sheilah - I made a wonderful dinner party, my best in 33 years. The food was outstanding and every recipe was yours."

Thank you, Brenda

"Dear Sheilah: I want to let you know that I have been cooking and baking Sheilah. Tonight I made the wonderful Southwest Chicken and one of the decadent brownies. Alan just loved it...hello Sheilah goodbye Joan. That is Alan's message. Thanks again for putting a spark into my cooking. I don't know what Sheilah we are having tomorrow night, but will peruse the cookbooks."

Susan

"Dear Sheilah: I have been cooking a la Sheilah for a New Year's Eve party and my guests were licking the dish. Your recipes are wonderful....I actually am enjoying making them....so keep writing cookbooks. I love all of them! Have a wonderful year. When will you teach here again?"

Lynn