Cruising Cuisine for Home Entertaining, Hors d'Oeuvres and Appetizers (Cruising Cuisine for Home Entertaining, 1)

Cruising Cuisine for Home Entertaining Volume I, may be the first cookbook that combines exciting recipes for home entertaining with an attractive recipe for cruise discounts.

Written by Elena Vakhrenova, a former cruise line manager with experience in food and beverage, the book features hors d’oeuvres and appetizers selected for their interesting presentation and easy preparation. Elena has added personal stories and impressions to help the reader experience how the recipe was first discovered and what makes it special.

The hard-bound, full color 136-page book features more than 50 recipes with final photographs of the dishes organized into chapters similar to how cruise lines are categorized by passengers and industry insiders. Moving from contemporary cruise lines to premium and luxury lines, the book is filled with garnishing and serving suggestions, cooking tips, and preparation times. It also features an extensive cross-referenced index and a list of mail order sources.

Designed to appeal to a wide audience of people who cruise, cook and entertain at home as well as those who entertain and think about cruising "someday", the book brings everyone one-step closer to their next – or first – cruise by including coupons worth hundreds of dollars for discounts, upgrades and shipboard spending credits on Carnival Cruise Lines, Star Clippers and Cunard Line. At a retail price of $29.95, the coupons alone are worth 10 times the price of the book!