Party Nuts!: 50 Recipes for Spicy, Sweet, Savory, and Simply Sensational Nuts That Will Be the Hit of Any Gathering (50 Series)

It's awfully hard not to love party nuts. Whether salty or sweet, spicy or mild, they are addictively delicious, the perfect nibble food for cocktail parties, holiday buffets, and any formal or informal gathering. In Party Nuts!, veteran author Sally Sampson presents 50 recipes for all sorts of flavored nuts that will please every palate, along with easy, fun tips for serving them. There are sweet varieties (Snappy Taffed Pecans, Cinnamon Sugar and Orange Macademia Nuts), mixes that will set tongues tingling (Killer Peanuts, Salt and Chipotle Chile Almonds), savory versions (Rosemary Walnuts, Saffron Pistachios), and much more. The recipes are accompanied by vibrant four-color photographs that make this a great gift for your favorite cook, or for yourself.

In this book, veteran author Sally Sampson presents 50 recipes for all sorts of flavored nuts that will please every palate, along with easy, fun tips for serving them.

Library Journal

A few years ago, food writer Sampson started playing around with a recipe for sweet and spicy pecans and then with other combinations of nuts and flavorings. Now she and her husband have their own business, Sampson's Nuts. Here are the recipes for the pecans that started it all, along with other "Savory Nuts," "Hot Nuts," and "Sweet Nuts," any of which would make a great gift from the kitchen as well as a party nibble. With its narrow focus, this is not a necessary purchase for most libraries, but larger collections may want to add it. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Presents a collection of recipes for a variety of flavored nuts, including sugared bourbon pecans, soy-glazed walnuts, hot pepper sesame peanuts, and honey-cardamon almonds As soon as I decided to write this book, I sent an e-mail to all my friends: Do you have any recipes for party nutsthe edible, not the human, kind?