Autumn from the Heart of the Home

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 128 pages
• Published by: Little, Brown and Company
• Edition: 1st Edition September 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0316088668
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0316088664
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

From Publishers Weekly
Susan Branch. Little, Brown, $25.95 (128p) ISBN 0-316-08866-8Branch, the author-illustrator of several cute books and calendars (Vineyard Seasons; The Summer Book; etc.), brings her enthusiasm for cooking, entertaining and decorating to the fall months. Her whimsical watercolors, hand-written recipes and reminiscences, and sentimental quotations decorate each page, making it difficult to figure out if this is a practical cookbook/entertaining guide or a visually appealing coffee-table book. The recipes, such as Orange Spiced Harvest Stew (with beef, red wine and vegetables, served in a pumpkin), Roasted Beet Salad with Creamy & Mild Blue Cheese Dressing, and Cranberry Apple Crisp, take advantage of the best nature has to offer. Although Branch includes chapters on Halloween and Thanksgiving, most of her 100 recipes allow readers to make everyday meals special. The book has a distinctly country, New England feel, with its Prayer for a Little Home, sketches of leaves around each page and numerous American Indian–inspired dishes, such as Corn Pudding and Indian Shuck Bread. Serious cooks will be put off by the book's sensory overload, but lovers of Mary Engelbreit–type homey kitsch will lap this up. 4-color watercolors throughout.
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Product Description
Celebrate fall with Susan Branchs first all-new, large- format work in four years--a brightly illustrated and lovingly designed, full-color paean to autumn. Susan Branchs long-awaited autumn book picks up where The Summer Book left off, featuring more of the delicious, easy recipes and inspirational ideas that have won her an enthusiastic and growing following. AUTUMN FROM THE HEART OF THE HOME is a bountiful harvest of appetizing recipes, imaginative menus, and homemade autumn arts. Full of cozy projects, thoughtful gifts such as the Sniffle Basket and the Sunday Breakfast kit, seasonal decorating and entertaining ideas, Halloween and Thanksgiving inspirations, and garden tips, AUTUMN FROM THE HEART OF THE HOME features mouthwatering recipes for Touchdown Chili, Butternut Shotglass Soup, Iowa Corn Bread, Savory Sage Riblets, Harvest Stew, Grandmas Stuffing, Curried Pumpkin Pots, Ginger Crisps, and of course, Hot Chocolate. Illustrated with glorious watercolors and handwritten in Susan Branchs trademark style, this gorgeous new book is a sensational addition to the Susan Branch collection.

Reader Reviews
I have to admit, I am a big fan of Susan Branch's books. There is something comforting about cracking open one of her new books and delving in. I don't know if it is the colorful, homey drawings, the short little asides about her family or her traditions, or if it is that the recipes are so easily made and delicious. I just love the books and "Autumn" is no exception. I am not one that normally gets excited about fall, being a summer lover, but I can't help to love all the rich colors and fantastic recipes. This year I made the sweet potato casserole, which includes sherry and walnuts, and it is a favorite for our Thanksgiving celebration. I have tagged the pages of recipes I want to try, and, well, let's just say it will take me a while to get through them all, from simple ideas, to more labor intensive recipes. Her recipes are simple, with ingredients that you know, and will find in your pantry more often than not. It is the kind of book that you will cook from often, like recipes that your mom has handed down to you for just good old home cooking. I also loved the small section on halloween, and especially the halloween punch, with the highlight being the ice hands that you make by cleaning a latex glove, and pushing stemless cherries in the fingers and filling with water and freezing....make two she suggests, so that when one melts you have a new hand to throw in the punchbowl. If you are a fan of Susan's or would just really enjoy a beautifully put together book, with quotes, colors and wonderful recipes, this is for you.