RECIPE FOR A COUNTRY INN: Fine Food from the Inn at Twin Linden
Donna Leahy, . . Morrow, $29.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-06-018492-6
Leahy serves up an ample taste of a dream fulfilled: to buy, renovate and operate a rural Pennsylvania inn with her husband. At the same time she offers 125 recipes that have converted hostelry visitors into her fans. Sidebars peppered throughout discuss such basics as catering to guests' dietary restrictions, securing publicity for the business and what it's like cooking for a crowd. The heart of the book, however, is its informal table. Time constraints mean that Leahy favors recipes that are not overly complicated and others that can be prepared in advance. Breakfasts (as in her earlier
Reviewed on: 01/21/2002
Genre: Nonfiction