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Apples for Jam: A Colorful Cookbook

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Apples for Jam

Filled with comfort food and warm memories, Apples for Jam: A Colorful Cookbook (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.95) is a vibrant and charming cookbook for people who love food and life.

Author Tessa Kiros has circled the globe, working in restaurants in Australia, Greece, Mexico, and London. Her extensive travel and multicultural background lend authenticity to more than 200 diverse and easy-to-make recipes in Apples for Jam.

Chock-full of savory dishes and liberally garnished with anecdotal memories about family, friends and the joys of childhood, Apples for Jam is a keepsake cookbook for everyone with a passion for flavor.

"This is food for families, for young people, for old people, for children, for the child in all... for life." —Tessa Kiros in Apples for Jam: A Colorful Cookbook

Viewing life with a prismatic and practical eye, Tessa has grouped the recipes by color and illustrated Apples for Jam with lavish photography and whimsical children's art. With memories of daisy chains, ice cream cones, circuses, and four-leaf clovers, Kiros shares her belief that good food sparks cherished memories that intensify life's melting pot of flavor.

Enjoy your kaleidoscopic journey down memory lane in Apples for Jam. Who knows? Soon you may be swapping recipes over the fence, making a daisy chain, or sliding emergency cookies into your apron pocket.

Praise for Apples for Jam

"Exuberant and colorful" —New York Times Magazine

"Apples for Jam is a book that gets under your skin. It beckons you, and seduces you to pick it up." —KQED San Francisco, CA

"A lovely quilt snuggled softly against your cheek." —Times Herald-Record, Hudson Valley, NY

"A vibrant and charming collection" —Tucson Citizen, Tucson, AZ

"The charming drawings and homey, evocative photographs along with the well chosen selection of recipes make for a beautiful and personal cookbook. Apples for Jam is a thoroughly original and enjoyable family cookbook." —CookbooksWeLove.com

"Like Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and a handful of others, Tess Kiros is more than a recipe writer... Kiros conjures up the atmosphere which lifts her homey foods –fish pie, tomato lasagna, hamburger patties—from the humble to the exceptional." —The Cookbook Store, Toronto, On

"Tessa Kiros is set to be the culinary world's latest star." —Red magazine, London, UK

"Apples for Jam" is made for anyone who loves to play with children while encouraging their imaginations and expanding their palates. —The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon

"The author, Tessa Kiros, of Finnish and Greek heritage, leads her readers into a joyous and fulfilling world of preparing and eating food... Check out this delightful and very festive cook book." —Silvia Lehrer, Dan's Papers, The Hamptons, Long Island

About Tessa Kiros

Born to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cipriot father, Tessa Kiros grew up learning about the world's diverse cultures and traditions. She has worked in restaurants in Sydney, Athens, and Mexico, and at London's famous Groucho Club. Tessa has published two other cookbooks, Twelve: A Tuscan Cookbook and Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes. She lives in Tuscany with her husband and two daughters.

Memory ~

We cut our white bread into doorstep slices. Our mother toasted it and we patted butter as straight as we could with the flat-sided knives we were allowed to use, before the toast just drank it all up, it seemed. Then we sat on the real doorstep, munching, staring at the cherry pinks and plum purples, the lemon blossom, the sky blue, and whipped cream white of the clouds.