Pair your breads, crackers, chips, and crudités with crowd-pleasing bowls of easy-to-make dips, spreads, and sauces. When you’re serving party nibbles, there’s always room for another appetizer. Whip up some Pumpkin Pepita Hummus to add a dash of color and flavor to a harvest-themed gathering or put out a bowl of Cheesy Pub Dip to get those football fans cheering. These dips can even add a zesty twist to your next meal: try Watermelon Cucumber Salsa as a topping for salad on a hot summer day or drop a scoop of Cilantro Peanut Pesto into your stir-fry to take it to the next level. These flavorful recipes require little to no cooking and will delight any palate.

Enjoy festive and flavorful dips made from wholesome, guilt-free ingredients with this cookbook featuring forty-five easy recipes. Everyone loves a good dip, but these dips love you back. There’s no mayo- or sour cream–laden guilt here! These healthful options are a snap to whip up, travel well, and are sure to be the talk of the party. With inspiration from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Asia, and the Americas, these forty-five go-to recipes featuring root veggies, legumes, pulses, and nuts are guaranteed palate and waistline pleasers.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip. Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart. Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you’ll earn profits, glory, and long-term security. Whether you’re an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.

Create a memorable and delicious serving board for any season or occasion with Dips, Spreads, Nosh. Featuring board building advice from charcuterie experts like Murray’s Cheese, Publican Market, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, Vermont Creamery, and many more, hosting has never been this easy. With full board recipes, easy-to-follow instructions, and full-color photography, as well as over 100 serving board recipes for any occasion, you’ll never have a boring spread! Inside this cookbook, you’ll discover recipes such as: Rustic Bakery Feta and Herb Quick Bread, Peanut Satay Dip, Elevated Party Mix, and more! Whether you’re looking for the gift for the hostess who has everything or want to expand your own entertaining collection, Dips, Spreads, Nosh is sure to please.

Alyse Whitney has been a Dip Queen for decades, making the writer, editor, Cosmopolitan food columnist, and TV host the perfect diplomat for this first-of-its-kind cookbook. Big Dip Energyoffers endless fun and easy ways to both entertain and enjoy solo with creative dips and dippers. Dip is the world’s universal love language, and dipficionada Alyse is here to teach you how to be fluent in Big Dip Energy. In this personality-filled, outrageously fun book, she shares her MVDs (most valuable dips and dippers), tips for dipceptively easy entertaining, and styling inspiration for the best #DipPics. Dip can turn any moment into a party, and helps turn strangers into friends as they gather ’round the bowl and dip into her twists on classics and innovative transformations of popular dishes to dips. There’s a diptionary to help break down the basics, and suggested modipfications offer alternatives to satisfy vegans, vegetarians, and gluten-free dip fanatics. Plus, almost every recipe in the book is a one-pan wonder and takes less than 45 minutes from start to finish, including: Caesar Salad Dip, with romaine lettuce in the dip and as the dipper Death Breath Dip, a slow-roasted allium dip in mint condition Crab Rangoon Dip, with Rainbow Dumpling Chips or Wonton Lil’ Scoopz This Dip Is Bananas, a combination of banana bread, banana pudding, and bananas foster with an innovative dipssert technique Chopped Cheese(burger) Queso, a loaded cheesy dip inspired by the NYC bodega-favorite sandwich—complete with Hoagie Toasts! Drive-Thru Taco 7-Layer Dip, an homage to Alyse’s love of Taco Bell Saag Paneer Artichoke Dip, filled with warm spices and perfectly paired with crispy paneer “dipsticks” Pizza Your Way Dip in a Garlic Knot Wreath, with white and red sauce versions And much more! Leave the party planning up to Big Dip Energy and get inspired to dip into the world of the undipfeated champion of party food.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Everyone loves to "chip and dip." Featuring more than 50 recipes from light and healthy snacks to rich and creamy recipes for sharing, here you’ll find a dip for every taste and occasion. Sociable and relaxed party food; indulgent TV night grazing or a healthier alternative to high-fat salty snacks, dips continue to be enduringly popular. Whether made from beans, nuts, and seeds; vegetables, fruit and herbs; fish and meat; or yogurt and cheese, the possibilities for color, texture, and flavor are endless. Make your own familiar classics from fresh ingredients and taste Guacamole, Hummus, and Creamy Blue Cheese dips as you’ve never tasted them before. Discover fresh flavors with Cannellini & Artichoke Dip with Olive and Fennel-seed Grissini; Avocado, Olive, and Anchovy Dip; Eggplant and Tahini; Cream Cheese, Walnut, and Celery and Jerusalem Hummus with Toasted Pine Nuts and Mango, Kiwi, and Cilantro Salsa. Try rich and creamy American style hot dips include Buffalo Chicken Wing, Maryland Crab Dip, or the indulgent Hot Philly Steak Dip. Whether served with hot toasted pitta bread strips, seeded grissini, crisp tortillas, or crunchy vegetable sticks, there is a dipper to suit every dip and serving suggestions and pairings are also included here. Armed with these deliciously easy recipes there is no excuse not to get scooping.