Marie Claire: Seasonal Kitchen

The upscale magazine provides stylish recipes that complement each season of the year.

Since 1994, marie claire magazine has attracted a broad audience of younger working women by offering smart, service-oriented content. This new cookbook is devoted to those home cooks who are eager to make the most of fresh produce and respond to the changing moods of each season.

Michele Cranston includes inspiring recipes from light and healthy spa cuisine for summer days to heartier casseroles and soups for cooler weather months. This vibrant cookbook reinvents old and comforting favorites and creates new and exciting flavor combinations from the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. Recipes include everything from salt and pepper crab cakes (for autumn), to tagine of chicken, tomato and artichoke (winter); from lamb with lentils and goat cheese (spring), to apricot and orange jam (summer).

marie claire Seasonal Kitchen has dishes for all occasions, from a lazy family night with a bowl of spicy noodles to an afternoon of slow grazing. Featuring 250 recipes with 400 photographs, it is a fabulous book on home-style cooking and entertaining.