Alison Roman

This extensively illustrated cookbook offers a variety of recipes for preparing quick and appealing meals for entertaining guests; fare includes snacks and appetizers, meals, salads, and desserts, often using international seasonings, to provide a new spark to standard ingredients.

"A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them-from the New York Times bestselling author of Dining In and Nothing Fancy. Casual, effortless, chic: These are not words you'd use to describe most desserts. But before Alison Roman made recipes so perfect that they go by one name-The Cookie, The Pasta, The Lemon Cake-she was a restaurant pastry chef who spent most of her time learning to make things the hard...