Synopses & Reviews
Do people take one bite of your food, moan with delight and beg you for the recipe? Do they exclaim, "Out of this world!" and "Beyond perfect!" when they taste your cooking? When you cook from BEAT THIS!, they will. In a book that has become a classic for its unique combination of irresistible recipes and hilarious prose, Ann Hodgman throws down the gauntlet, with more than 100 recipes that she guarantees to be better than anyone else's. Recipes include: Apple Crisp, Baking Powder Biscuits, Beef Stew, Blueberry Muffins, Caramels, Chicken Salad, Clam Chowder, Deviled Eggs, Fudge, Fried Mushrooms, Gingersnaps, Guacamole, Lemon Squares, Lime Sorbet, Molasses Cookies, Onion Soup, Pesto Torta, Plum Pudding, Potato Salad, Shrimp Salad, Spaghetti Sauce, Sugar Cookies, Tomato Soup, Vinaigrette, White-Chocolate Raspberry Pie, and Whole-Wheat Bread.
Review
"Delightfully witty . . . Every recipe I've tried has become one of my favorites." - Phyllis Richman The Washington Post
"Surely the funniest book ever written about food - anyone who has been blue lately, or has spent more than five minutes in the kitchen, should buy it." - Corby Kummer
Atlantic Monthly
About the Author
Ann Hodgman is the author of over forty childrens’ books, several humor books—most recently the self-help/humor book I saw Mommy Kicking Santa Claus--and four cookbooks: Beat This!, Beat That!, One Bite Won’t Kill You, and, in 2011, a second edition of Beat This! She has written articles for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Food & Wine, Smithsonian, and just about all the women's and parenting magazines. She lives in Washington, Connecticut.