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“For years I've told guys in my Romance Seminars that my best advice for catching a woman is, ‘Learn to dance.’ And my best advice for keeping a woman is, ‘Learn to cook.’ Margie Lapanja's Food Men Love is sure to increase the amount of love, enjoyment and gustatory satisfaction in the world.”
—Gregory J.P. Godek, author of 1001 Ways to be Romantic
“Sex and yummy food, what could be better?”
—GraceAnn Walden, San Francisco Chronicle's “Inside Scoop” columnist
“Fantastic! A book featuring men's favorite foods could have only been written by Margie Lapanja. I've tried about half the recipes so far and can't wait to try them all.”
—Andrew F. Smith, culinary historian and author of The Tomato in America, Pure Ketchup, and Popped Culture
“Forget the Paris perfume. Everyone knows the real way to win a man's heart is through good tasting, real men food! A copy of Food Men Love is all you'll need to keep the man in your life happy and content. And if you don't already have a man, this book will help you get one!”
—JoAnna M. Lund, President and CEO of Healthy Exchanges, Inc., publisher of the Healthy Exchanges food newsletter, and author of Healthy Exchanges cookbooks.
“This is the ultimate guide to getting to your man's heart via his stomach…make sure you really like him….He'll be yours for life!”
—Ame Mahler Beanland, co-editor of It's a Chick Thing
| MARGIELAPANJA | FoOd |
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| Foreword byMario Batali | LoVe |
All-Time Favorite R E C i P E S
from Caesar Salad andGrilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Bunsand Apple Pie
CONARI PRESS
Berkeley, California
Copyright © 2001 by Margaret Beiser Lapanja
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. For information, contact: Conari Press, 2550 Ninth Street, Suite 101, Berkeley, California 94710-2551.
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Cover Photography: Johner Bildbyra/Photonica
Cover Art Direction: Ame Beanland
Author Photo: Susan Zweigle, Zweigle/Ratiner Studios
“Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lapanja, Margie
Food men love : all-time favorite recipes from Caesar salad and grilled rib-eye to cinnamon buns and apple pie / Margie Lapanja.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-57324-512-7
1. Cookery. I. Title.
TX714 .L353 2001
641.5—dc21
00-011001
Printed in the United States of America on recycled paper.
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To Ambrosia Lené Healy, Who loves men
Food Men Love
Introduction: The Highway to His Heart
Pasta, Pizza, and Molto Risotto
Foreword
by Mario Batali
Without resorting to cliché or insulting simplicity, Margie Lapanja has culled a remarkable wealth of recipes, food facts, trivia, and other proof that real men are about much more than burgers and beer. Food Men Love reads like an owner's manual for those three things: food, men, and, most important, love. Watch out, marriage counselors and divorce attorneys: This book may put you out of business.
Mario Batali is the host of Molto Mario on the TV Food Network, author of Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages (Clarkson Potter, 1998) and Mario Batali Holiday Food (Clarkson Potter, 2000). He is the chef/owner of Babbo, Lupa, and Esca restaurants and Italian Wine Merchants in New York City.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
—George Bernard Shaw
INTRODUCTION
The Highway to His Heart
The purpose of a cookery book is unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.
—Joseph Conrad
Before sex, before sports, before Corvettes, Hummers, and Harleys—before the beginning of recorded time—men have loved food. They have