cover image Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home

Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home

. Lyons Press, $19.95 (324pp) ISBN 978-1-58574-207-3

In Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home, Deborah S. Tukua (Pearls of Country Wisdom: Hints from a Small Town on Keeping Garden and Home) serves up 456 tips and simple recipes for sauces, syrups and staples that run the gamut from advice on kitchen decor and creative home touches (Tip 151: ""Pipe cleaners can be shaped into numbers and used on birthday cakes! Stand them up on the cake and light them like a candle. They'll burn bright and fast"") to making crab quiche. The founding editor of Coming Home magazine has separated the items into sections on organization and general safety, baking, cooking and food preparation and storage. ( May)