ABOUT THE BOOK
Sumptuous Surprises is a surprise party in cookbook form, created by Tina Scheftelowitz, one of Denmark's bestselling cookbook authors. Plenty of dazzle is provided by a colorful layout, and the author makes use of all sorts of fun, serious, inviting, and wacky themes to present recipes for all meals of the day at any time of the year, including ideas for festive occasions.

The book is divided into seasons, so that you'll be able to find the raw ingredients when they're at their peak. These are not expensive or difficult- to-find ingredients, but rather products that we're all familiar with. At most, you may have to stop by a health-food store or a particularly well-stocked produce section to find what you need. As usual, Tina's multi-national kitchen offers suggestions for food with a little extra spice, kick, and pizzazz - plus lots of tips, along with her ever-popular humorous take on cooking.

Sections include: Sumptuous salads with brilliant bubbles (dealing with sparkling vinegars), Radish refinements, Raw-food revival, Flower foods, A trip in a time machine (dealing with retro recipes), Danish dynamite, New Nordic pasta, Super salmon, and New Year's - upside down (see the cover).

With Sumptuous Surprises, Tina Scheftelowitz has created a cornucopia of practical recipes presented together with a wealth of fabulous pictures. This is both the perfect coffee table book, because it's so beautifully produced, and an indispensable cookbook for the kitchen because it's brimming with recipes that you'll want to use again and again. As the author herself says: this is a book that will "enrich, enrapture, and entertain at the dinner table."

THE AUTHOR
Tina Scheftelowitz originally trained to be a food manager, and she is responsible for both Flora's Coffee Bar and the coffee company Amokka. Today she is an entrepreneur, a food writer for Politiken, and a product and concept developer. Sumptuous Salads and Brilliant Buffets appeared in 1997, and since then Scheftelowitz has published a long list of cookbooks, both on her own and in collaboration with her "salad sister" Sonja Bock. Her books have sold more than a million copies. Sumptuous Surprises represents the culmination of the author's extensive cookbook endeavors to date.

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