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Celebrity caterer Serena Bass, who plans parties for the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Ralph Lauren and Kate Spade, offers up some of her party-throwing secrets in Serena, Food & Stories. Bass cooked her first dinner party at age 16 (for her older sister's boyfriend) by reading directly from a cookbook, and the experience shows: her precise directions and encouraging, down-to-earth tone make it easy for even the most tentative cook to do the same. The recipes are for creative, homestyle foods with innovative gourmet touches like adding juniper berries to potato salad. The book is dotted...
...pirate radio. Podcasts are recorded episodes of varying length made by people ranging from experienced pros to wannabe DJs. They can be listened to on your computer whenever you please or downloaded to your iPod or similar MP3 player and enjoyed while you drive to work, jog or cook dinner. Championed by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who created iPodder.org and launched his first podcast in August 2004, the idea has snowballed, and there are now more than a thousand podcasters. The content could use an upgrade, but at least there's variety. Podcasts range over such topics as religion...
...cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan--a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition--which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving...
...past all the cussing, this cookbook could be your new best friend in the kitchen. Bourdain's passion for food is contagious, and his precise instructions go a long way toward helping make classic bistro cooking, from frisée aux lardons to boeuf bourguignon, less intimidating for the home cook. Don't worry--the book comes in a brown paper wrapper. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...global banks and justified those loans by inflating its revenues through fictitious sales to retailers. In a scheme that authorities charge was devised and executed by Tanzi, top managers, the firm's outside lawyer, Gian Paolo Zini, and two outside auditors, Maurizio Bianchi and Lorenzo Penca, it would then cook its books some more to make the debt vanish, by transferring it to shell companies based in offshore tax havens. (Zini, Bianchi and Penca deny any wrongdoing.) When the hole grew too large to hide, Tanzi, Tonna and the two auditors allegedly came up with Parmalat's most audacious invention...