jhstack's review against another edition

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4.0

An easy-to-follow and easily accessible cookbook with recipes for just about everyone. Some folks with tighter dietary restrictions may need to make more substitutions, but there's plenty of fish and vegetable options included for pescatarians and vegetarians. I've made the goat cheese pumpkin pie and a slight variation on the bacon mushroom quiche for family events, and both were a hit!

dray's review against another edition

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3.0

A unique premise: a cookbook focusing on recipes you bring to gatherings or potlucks. The first part of the book goes into depth about how to best transport food (must report I survived having a large pot of soup spill in my car), None the less, the recipes stand on their own, whether you transport or not.

kelseyr713's review against another edition

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4.0

Beautiful cookbook, nothing overly complex (which I was assuming because of the subject matter, but it's nice that you don't need to set aside a whole bunch of time to make anything in this book), and easy-to-find ingredients. I appreciated that it's not the same dishes you always see at potlucks while still keeping things pretty simple (I think - haven't tried anything yet, but copied 18 to try). Not every dish has a photo, but the ones that do are very nice.

As always, will update after trying some recipes.

bookwormmichelle's review

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3.0

I thought I would like this, but these foods are kind of "out there" for my experience of family or church potlucks. Salmon? Salmon roe? Wine noodles with pine nuts? Kind of puzzling. Maybe potlucks in Iowa are very different. LOL.

stackwoodlibrary's review

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3.0

Interesting premise for a cookbook, the "how to bring it" section was useful, some things just work better than others for a potluck dish.

urn's review

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3.0

The theme of this book is useful and appealing, and I appreciated the "how to bring it" section of each recipe, which covered storage, temp, reheating, and transport. In that regard, it succeeded at its mission.

...But the recipes kinda reminded me of the mathematical mean of the top one hundred vaguely healthy white lady food blogs of 2005-2015, ya know? There are a few I'll try, but nothing that really took my brain to a new and interesting place.

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