Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Book Nook: Thanksgiving for Two (or Four): Downsized Recipes for Today's New Thanksgiving Dinner

 James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Cynthia Graubart has created the perfect recipes for small celebrations with her latest book, Thanksgiving for Two (or Four): Downsized Recipes for Today’s New Thanksgiving Dinner. This e-book comes just in time as families are facing the new reality of being unable to gather in the traditional ways due to COVID-19 precautions. Released by Empire Press, the e-book is available for sale on Amazon. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Frontline Workers Fund, providing financial support to critical workers at the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis. 

No one could picture back in March of 2020 what Thanksgiving would look like. The pandemic has influenced many family gatherings from birthdays, to weddings, funerals, and now the holiday season. This cookbook is for all of the families who are gathering differently this year. All the traditional favorites are here from comforting casseroles and side dishes, to elegant turkey breasts, homey skillet turkey thighs, and mini pies for dessert. Some of the turkey entrees are sized to yield those beloved leftovers for a second meal or sandwiches, but not so much that it is an eternity of repeats.

About the Author
Cynthia Graubart is the author of 11 cookbooks where she shares her passion for helping families spend more time at the dinner table together. She has appeared on Fox & Friends, Hallmark’s Home & Family, NY1, syndicated Daytime TV Show, and frequently appears on local morning shows.

Cynthia most recently authored Sunday Suppers for Southern Living (2017) and will debut two new titles, Blueberry Love, and Strawberry Love, in Spring 2021. She and Nathalie Dupree wrote the best-selling (and James Beard Foundation Award of Excellence-winning) Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking. Cynthia received a M.F.K. Fisher Food Writing Award for the introduction to Chicken: A Savor the South Cookbook.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, SeriousEats.com, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, and Taste of the South, among many others.

Named a Georgia Grown Executive Chef for 2017 she joined her fellow appointees to cook at the James Beard House in June 2017. She co-led an all-female team of chefs in October 2019, also at the James Beard House, in celebration of Nathalie Dupree’s 80th Birthday. 

Cynthia is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, a professional culinary organization with the mission to help foster the education of women in the culinary arts and related fields. She is Vice-Chair of the Broadcast Committee for the James Beard Awards and is currently at work on  two books in a new cookbook series for Storey Publishers, a division of Workman. 

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