Put away the calculator--all the dishes in this cookbook have been designed to serve two comfortably without scaling down or guessing on quantities. These enticing recipes will get home chefs cooking again and enjoying old favorites as well as sampling fresh new ideas. 40 full-color photos.

A special edition of the favorite cookbook features a special holiday section that contains a host of recipes, photographs, menus, and tips for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's holidays, along with more than one thousand classic and contemporary recipes in the regular sections.

Includes over 1,000 recipes with complete nutrition information, food history, special helps, time-saving recipes and ideas, and charts of yields and equivalents.