Bars and Squares or Taste for Wine

Bars and Squares: More than 200 Recipes

Author: Jill Snider

The ultimate collection of favorite recipes for snacks and desserts.

Bars and squares are so easy to make, and they provide such sweet satisfaction. Bars and Squares features 200 yummy recipes with a wide variety of flavors -- fruits, nuts, spices, chocolate and more -- that make these tasty treats ideal for almost any occasion. And many of the recipes just call for mixing up the dough, putting it into a pan, and baking it in the oven.

In this new cookbook, Jill Snider brings together an outstanding collection of her favorite recipes, which are enhanced by lush full-color photographs. This comprehensive cookbook has 12 chapters, including kid-friendly, no-bake, chocolate, brownies only, shortbread, and healthy and wholesome.

Here's a small sampling of these baked delights:

• Orange cream cheese brownies, rocky road chocolate bars


• Hearty and healthy apricot almond bars, apple cinnamon bars


• Praline bars, chocolate buttercrunch bars, mocha cheesecake squares


• Cherry pecan shortbread squares, lots of lemon squares, tropical treats.

There are familiar recipes as well as many new ones that will create wonderful memories for family and friends. This segment of the baking category is a traditional favorite, and home cooks everywhere will welcome this new cookbook.

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Taste for Wine

Author: Vincent Gasnier

Do you like bold reds? How about fruity whites? What's your personal wine style? One of the fastest-rising stars in the world of wine has discovered a fun, fresh, and intuitive way to learn how to recognize the flavors you like best- and pick exactly the right bottle of wine every time.

Author Biography: Vincent Gasnier is the youngest person ever to qualify as a Master Sommelier (only 113 have been awarded.) He received the Dom Perignon Award from the Academy of Food & Science in 1998 and currently heads a restaurant consultancy firm. He is the author of Drinks and served as wine steward at Soho House in Manhattan.