Review, Cooking to Hook up

Part 1: Getting Ready to Cook
-Materials: Twelve Staples to Have at all Times
-Tools: Essential Equipment and Utensils
-Preparing the House
-For the Love of the Grape: A Basic Wine Primer
-The Risk Continuum
-Dealing with Hybrids
-Bailing Out: Dealing with Disaster

Part 2: The Menus

The Girl Next Door
-Fourth of July Fireworks: Fried Chicken and French Fries
-Mom's Kitchen: Savory Meat Loaf
-Hometown Favorites: Pineapple Glazed Ham
-Sunday Dinner: Pot Roast
-Hot Dish: Midwestern Tuna Casserole

The Party Girl
-Tex-Mex Fiesta: Fajitas and Spanish Fly Cocktails
-Saucy and Sweet: Pizza, Flaming Dr peppers, and Banana Splits
-Very Happy Hour: Bar Food and Screaming Orgasms
-Spring Break South of the Border: Ultimate Nachos and Body Shots
-Fun-due: Cheese Fondue and Wine Coolers

The Athletic Girl
-In the Zone: Chicken in Orange Sauce
-The Atkins Diet: Low-Carb Crab Cakes
-Body-for-Life: Chicken Parmesan
-Carb Loading: Sun-dried and Roasted Tomato Fettuccine
-Weight Watchers: Lemon-Pepper Halibut

The Academic Girl
-A Chaucerian Feast: Chiknes with the Marybones
-Papa's Tapas, or a Moveable Feast: Hemingway's Picnic of Spanish Tapas
-Pub Grub I: Pygmalion Bangers & Mash
-Pub Grub II: Welsh Rabbit vs. Rarebit
-Shakespeare on a Plate: A First Quarto Sampler

The Progressive Girl
-"Go to the Mattresses": Chicken and Artichoke Cacciatore
-"What is Tiramisu?": Chicken Piccata and Tiramisu
-"Pesto, the Quiche of the '80s": Pesto Swordfis over Capellini
-"I'll Have What She's Having": Salmon in Dill Sauce
-"Take Me to Bed or Lose Me Forever!": Lemon Shrimp Linguine

The Indie Girl
-Monsoon Wedding: Bollywood Curry Chicken
-Tampopo: Spaghetti Western Udon Soup
-Eat Drink Man Woman: Shrimp and Fortune Cookies
-Amelie: Le Fabuleux Diner d'Amelie Poulain
-Like Water for Chocolate: Chiles en Jogada and Chocolate Flan

The Granola Girl
-Macrobiotic: Magic Marinated Mushrooms
-Eco-Friendly: Crop Rotation Casserole
-Raw Lust: Sprout Salad and Wheatgrass Shots
-Lacto-Ovo: Greekin' Out
-Vegan Thanksgiving: Tofurkey Dinner

The Career Girl
-Maximizing Your ROI: Low-Investment, High-Yield Sushi
-Bottom-Line Priorities: Just Dessert
-Midtown Power dining: Ahi, Shrimp, Scallops, and Vegetables on a Bed of Baby Greens
-Achieving Synergy: Spinach, Raspberry, and Goat Cheese Salad
-Getting to the Top: Trump Tower of Polenta and Pork Tenderloin

The Uptown Girl
-Dinner on the Yacht in the French Riviera: Champagne, Caviar, and Lobster
-Sinatra at the Sands: Martinis, Oysters, and Filet Mignon
-Afternoon Tea at the Savoy: Finger Sandwiches and Scones
-A Meal Fit for a Queen (and a Duke): Beef Wellington and Cherries Jubilee
-At the Villa in Avingnon: Coq au Vin and Tarte Tatin

The Gourmet Girl
-Comfort Food Redux: New American
-Some Like it Haute: Classic French
-R Is for Risotto, Radicchino, and Romance: Classic Italian
-It's a Small World After All: Pan-Asian Fusion
-There's No Taste Like Foam: Spanish Surrealist

So You Got Lucky: Recipes for Breakfast
-Academic Girl: Traditional British Breakfast
-Athletic Girl: Power Smoothie
-Career Girl: Wall Street Bagels
-Girl Next Door: Country Kitchen Breakfast
-Gourmet Girl: Hakuna Frittata
-Granola Girl: Tofu Scramble
-Indie Girl: My Breakfast with Blassie
-Party Girl: Hair of the Dog
-Progressive Girl: Florentine Omelet
-Uptown Girl: Ladies Who Brunch

-Guide to Eggs

-About the Authors

From The Publisher:

It's a fact. Cooking is dead sexy. Women will always choose men with wooden spoons over men with Gold Cards (unless you're in L.A.).

But there's a world of difference between any dinner and the right dinner. Should you serve sushi or meatloaf? Play String's greatest hits or the lates Yo La Tengo single? Wear the Birkenstock sandals or the Armani loafers?

It all depends on the girl.

Surprise! All women are not alike. Casanova, the world's most successful lover, had a secret: Find out what each woman wants and provide it. Is she the Girl Next Door with her mom's number on speed dial? Go with the Sunday Pot Roast and Apple Pie. How about an Indie Girl who loves French cinema? Serve her Le Fabuleux Diner d'Amelie Poulain. A Career Girl who dreams of a corner office? Make her a Trump Tower of Polenta and Pork Tenderloin!

Sound complicated? It isn't. All you need is a small supply of tools, a permanent stock of twelve staple foods, and ten additional ingredients you can buy through the express lane (with a pit stop at the liquor store). We've got fifty complete meals, including dessert, for everyone from the Academic Girl to the Uptown Girl.

It gets better.

The key to an enchanted evening is choosing not only the right food, but also the right wine, music, and even shoes that will turn her on, not turn her stomach. cooking to Hook Up steers you right to the winning combinations for each Girl.

We give you Girl-specific tips on what to talk about, what flowers to buy, and which magazines to leave on the coffee table. There's even an easy wine-buying guide to give you the goods on the grapes. We provide critical information such as "Cleaning the Bathroom," "Removing all Indications of Previous Women," and "Bailing Out: Dealing with Disaster." If all goes well, you can skip to the last chapter, "So you Got Lucky: Recipes for Breakfast."

So... what kind of Girl is she?

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Ann Marie Michaels (Gourmet/Indie Girl) and Drew Campbell (progressive guy) were married in 1997. Despite a shared fondness for vodka martinis and cutthroat Scrabble, they soon realized they were better writing partners than life partners. Their no-kids-no-foul marriage dissolved in 2003, and the fact that they didn't argue over a single CD should tell you something. With the marital storm safely weathered, however, they soon discovered something they did have in common: more than thirty-five years of combined dating experience. Writing a dating cookbook was the natural next step.

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