The creators of the popular website The Modern Proper show home cooks how to reinvent what proper means and be smarter with their time in the kitchen to create dinner that everyone will love.

"A new cookbook on fast dinners by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ree Drummond"--

"From beloved writer and cook Amy Thielen comes a year of inventive recipes and twenty menus for the "let's do it at my house" set-and those who aspire to it. In her much-anticipated follow-up to The New Midwestern Table, Amy writes, "no one will ever care about the food as much as you and I do." Company will have you rethinking the way you entertain, throwing dinner parties that are less formal, more frequent, and as fun for the cook as for the guests....

The acclaimed author of Big Book of Casseroles delivers another kitchen classic with this volume of two hundred all-purpose, can't-miss dinner recipes.
Trust Maryana Vollstedt to come up with simple, honest food that real people want to eat for dinner. This indispensable cookbook is filled with everyday dishes that are perfect for busy cooks who expect great results with a minimum of time and effort.
Easy to follow and healthy,...

"Everyone knows that the little kids table is the place to be for any holiday or family gathering. This silly, rhyming story follows a group of rambuctious cousins from table setting to dessert. A universal theme, The Little Kids Table will have kids--and parents!--howling with laughter"--Provided by the publisher.

“We've been waiting for an hour.” That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.” At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen?...

Full of wit and mouth-watering cuisines, Jessica Tom’s debut novel offers a clever insider take on the rarefied world of New York City’s dining scene in the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada meets Kitchen Confidential.

 Food whore (n.) A person who will do anythingfor food.

When Tia Monroe moves to New York City, she plans to put herself on the culinary map in no time. But after a coveted

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A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away. What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten?

A collection of stories about life around the table--about family, friendships, and the meals that bring us together.

This book offers a novel approach to food writing, presenting a history of eating habits and mores through the lens of the technologies we use to prepare, serve, and consume food. It tells the history of food through its tools across different eras and continents to present a fully rounded account of humans' evolving relationship to kitchen technology. From the birth of the fork in Italy as it discovered pasta, to culture wars over spoons in Restoration...