If Sex and the City
's Carrie Bradshaw cooked, and wrote a cookbook, this might be it. It's a sassy collection of recipes and menus for the occasions and stages of relationships (from flings to marriage), with dating advice, sex sidebars and a dash of etiquette—a primer on "caviar for newbies"; a key to the pronunciation of wines and international foods; suggestions for successful key exchange—thrown in for good measure. Malouf, co-host of Hot off the Grill
with Bobby Flay and host of the WE network's Full Frontal Fashion
, offers stories from her own dating life along with simple-chic recipes such as Funky Mimosas for the morning-after breakfast; Pan-Roasted Chicken with Rosemary-Lemon Butter, Blue Cheese Arugula Salad with Honeyed Walnuts, and Grilled Asparagus with Balsamic Vinaigrette for the first home-cooked meal; and Chicken Ramani, Cucumber Raita, and Minty Cuban Mojitos for keeping things "hot." Readers in any phase of a relationship—and especially readers in no relationship at all—will be entertained and informed by this volume and will enjoy its modern design and fun photographs by Ben Fink. (Jan.)
