About this item
Are you planning the menu for your local junior league’s next luncheon? Wondering what cocktail to sip on while spectating at Wimbledon? Searching for the perfect casserole that tastes just the way Mummy used to make it? With answers to all these questions and more, The Preppy Cookbook will guide you, step by step, in creating a kitchen, and a world, that exemplifies the preppy lifestyle. This beautifully illustrated cookbook from Christine E. Nunn, the owner of Picnic, offers more than 125 perfectly tested recipes. Readers will not only delight their taste buds with mouthwatering photographs of summer Lobster Rolls and The Perfect Pot Roast, but they’ll also discover The Preppy Cookbook is a cheeky, cover-to-cover read that is as witty as it is delicious.
About the Author
Christine E. Nunn is an award-winning chef and lifelong preppy. She is the former executive chef and owner of Picnic the Restaurant, which was a Zagat award of excellence and 3.5 star dining establishment in New Jersey.Heavily influenced by her mother's appreciation of quality cuisine early in life, Christine has been cooking since the first light bulb was installed in her Easy-Bake Oven. Following stints as a writer, editor, and a fundraiser, Christine decided on a mid-life career change. She pursued her love of cooking as an occupation rather than a hobby and graduated at the top of her class from the esteemed Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park at the age of 39. Shortly after graduating from the CIA, Christine started a boutique catering company, Picnic, with the moniker "fun, fabulous, food."Her love of manners, madras, and campy cuisine inspired her to write The Preppy Cookbook. In a world where people are "foodies" and chefs are celebrities, Chef Christine feared that the wonderful retro recipes of the 60s and 70s are being kicked to the curb. She has come to be known for her simple yet elegant twists on classic recipes, from meatloaf with morel mushrooms, to saltine cracker crusted halibut with blackberry-thyme gastrique.When Christine is not in the kitchen, she spends her time volunteering for the Junior League, gardening, and relaxing at her lake house in Sussex. She lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
