For families juggling school, work, and many other time-consuming daily obligations, the idea of making dinner can be daunting. A combined effort by the top mommy bloggers?Tasted & Approved is a carefully curated collection of 50 simple yet delicious home-made recipes for busy parents by busy parents. From scrumptious mains such as salmon potato cakes and linguine alfredo with pan-fried chorizo and edamame and tasty snacks such as wholegrain muesli bars and cinnamon sugar purple sweet potato balls to mouth-watering sweet treats such as chocolate churros and mango and passion fruit smoothie, this book will inspire you to begin your culinary journey in the home kitchen. With personal anecdotes accompanying each recipe and insightful tips and alternatives for healthier meals, this book oozes the irresistible charm and unique personality of each blogger and is a must-have for parents that are looking to prepare quick and easy dishes that they know their family will love.

A producer of NPR’s All Things Considered takes readers on a culinary adventure in “this eclectic but cohesive cookbook” featuring 50+ cake recipes (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Melissa Gray started as a baking novice, but soon became National Public Radio’s Cake Lady. Every Monday she brought a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. Following the more than fifty recipes in this book, readers can develop their cake-baking skills alongside Melissa—and enjoy irresistible treats like Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake, Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake, and more.

Includes Proceedings of the annual conventions of the National Association of Retail Grocers.

Readers will find the same delight in the affinity of the incongruous, the subtlety of the commonplace, and the hidden simplicity of the complex. Only the subject matter is different in this case, some of the greatest - as well as the most trivial - of Western music."--Jacket.