(Part 2) Best entertainment & holiday cooking books according to redditors

Here are some books I have and what I think of them...

The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar by Zino Davidoff. Fun to read, lots of interesting info and thoughts. Also looks pretty cool.

The Tobacconist Handbook is probably the best informational book out there, at least that I've seen. It doesn't really look 'manly', but it's kinda cool IMO (editor's note: I have no idea what cool is).

Cigars 2-book set. Looks good on a coffee table, nice pictures. Info is hit-or-miss for quality.

The Cigar Companion. I picked this up cheap at a used book store. Got about what I paid for. Coffee table book? Not awful, not great. Source of info? Ehhh not great. Might fit the bill for your 'cheap' category though.

The Cigar Collection: Two Centuries of Cigar Writing is a very short book filled with poems and short essays/odes to cigars. It's not informational, but there is good writing in there. I enjoy it. It looks pretty cheap and isn't the highest-quality book.

I have no idea why the secondary market looks so crazy on these books on Amazon. I didn't pay anywhere near any of those prices for these books. Used book stores have been pretty good to me in terms of finding a couple very cheap - think the bargain bins.

Want to look really baller and have something cool to boot? Check out The Cigar Legend. It's a leather-bound book where you can document the cigars you've smoked and info about your cigar journey. It's super-pimp. /u/CigarNoise got me one, and it's classing up my library.

I like these 2 books on hosting: How to host a dinner party and What's a hostess to do

Based on my experience:

• Stick to recipes you're comfortable with so you don't worry about messing up.
  
• Try to prepare as much of the food as possible in the days before the party, if they will keep well.
  
• Have your playlists and sound system ready before the party. I've had to spend time messing with the audio during parties before, which adds to stress.
  
• Personally, I like to serve stuff like pasta and curry because they're one-pot dishes and the portions can be scaled up easily. Tomato-based sauces can be prepared beforehand. It's also easy to modify those dishes for people with dietary restrictions, by setting aside separate portions for them.

https://www.amazon.com/Cigars-Guide-Nicholas-Foulkes/dp/1848094876

• Commando Chicken - from this book. Simple, ridiculously easy, unbelievably delicious home-cooked roasted chicken.
  
  
• Potatoes. Sliced, salted and peppered, and placed in a pan below the chicken (which is in no pan on the rack above - thus, "commando"), they get all of the delicious chicken drippings. These are the most surprisingly nommable taters ever.
  
  
• Salad with home-made vinaigrette. Add some chicken drippings to the dressing. Doesn't taste like chicken, but adds depth and richness.
  
  
• Boiled artichokes, with butter or mayo for dipping. Artichokes are so freaking yummy, fancy cooking techniques do nothing but interfere with their awesome.
  
  
• And for dessert? I just had some strawberries, so I'm thinking strawberry shortcake would be the perfect finish here. Real shortcake. Real whipped cream. Fresh strawberries.
  
  I just ate, and now I'm hungry all over again!
  
  Book.
  
  Thanks for the contest!

not exactly what your looking for but i have a cookbook that is based on seasonality and breaks the book into 4 sections. I like the book a lot Four Seasons Cookery

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I wrote a Cookbook called 5 Ingredient Solutions I'd be glad to send it to you for Free! Contact me on my website and I'll send it over to you.

It's fine, I get anxiety whenever someone teaches me individually I feel I'm wasting their time and theres just much better people that knowledge could be given to. But I guess if I sve those tips up in a not and somehow keeps this phone till college hopefully, maybe I'll use it. I was thinking I'd just get something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hungry-Student-Cookbook-Charlotte-Pike/dp/1782060065/ref=asc_df_1782060065/

And just winging it but I guess a few tips couldn't hurt

http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Parties-Advice-Party-Planner/dp/1602391165/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324064198&sr=1-1

This is exactly $1, ships free with prime and is not an add on!

http://www.amazon.com/Asfalto-Culinario-Laboratorio-Spanish-Edition/dp/8424117298/ref=sr_sp-btf_image_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1372403762&sr=8-5&keywords=arzak

or

http://www.amazon.com/Arzak-recetas-Spanish-Edition-ebook/dp/B009TE445K/ref=sr_sp-atf_image_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372403762&sr=8-3&keywords=arzak

Sick Eats Kindle book _ Recipes for gross stuff for a halloween party!

Quick and Cheap

Have a wonderful evening!

https://www.amazon.com/Like-You-Hospitality-Under-Influence/dp/B002NSLMS6

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I got it for my grandma (also a huge fan of the royal family) and she really enjoyed it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Royal-Chef-Home-Seasonal-Entertaining/dp/1942945523

This book has a section for tailgating. I haven't tried any of the recipes in that section but they sound good.

HAPPY CAKE DAY! =D It's exciting, isn't it? It's not rational at all, but still very exciting. I actually recently missed my second cake day, so that was a bit of a bummer, but I'm glad you're here to celebrate your first!

When you say awesome sheets, do you mean sheets as in bed sheets, or sheets as in sheet music? Or both? Or neither? I'd love you help you out either way, haha (although I'd be best at the music one)!

I'd be so excited if I won this awesome book! It's actually cookbook, but a book nonetheless! I've had my eye on this for a while- it has some really amazing recipes in it that are completely doable for me since I'm such a novice cook. ;D

And you know what, I DID ENJOY MY THURSDAY, THANK YOU! <3 I hope you enjoyed yours as well!

Thanks so much for this contest! =D

I know not everyone loves her, and ymmv... but Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen isn't bad.

It's fun, a little trashy, and the recipes aren't incredibly hard.

https://www.amazon.ca/Bitchin-Kitchen-Cookbook-Kitchen-Clean/dp/1599214415

Maybe watch a couple of her webisodes first though and see if you're okay with her persona before buying the book.

Alternatively, if you can find it there used to be a book called "Cooking without mom: a survival guide" and it covered simple recipes, gave a run down of cooking terms and equivalent measurements, even some non-cooking things like what the laundry symbols mean. It was the first cook book I ever owned and served me well when I was about 11 or 12.

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Birthday-Party-Book-Fantastic/dp/1589199006 is it this?