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This lavishly illustrated, practical and inspiring cookbook presents classic American cooking in all its glory. American home cooking is a practical art-it includes putting together family meals nightly, and entertaining friends and relatives. It means digging turkey and pie recipes out of the card file before Thanksgiving, and cookie recipes before Christmas. This cookbook offers recipes for every part of the meal; soups and starters, entrees, side dishes, baked goods and desserts. Fresh Tomato Soup followed by Salmon Steaks with Lime Butter conjures up a summer lunch, Spicy Cheese Lasagne and Caesar's Salad for a fall family party, and a delectable array of desserts such as Blueberry Buckle and Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes make sinning with sugar the pleasure it is supposed to be. The full color photographs provide step-by-step detail for beginning cooks and act as a memory prompter for the more experienced. -- Over 200 recipes -- Over 800 step-by-step and glorious finished photographs make the following the recipes as easy as eating them -- Covers a wide range of favorite traditional recipes drawing from America's tapestry of immigrant cuisines -- Suggestions for quick weeknight suppers, informal meals and big holiday dinners