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Love Welcome Serve by Amy Nelson Hannon (www.centerstreet.com) represents a way of entertaining inspired by the author’s Southern grandmother Euna Mae on which most of these crowd-pleasing recipes are based.

This cookbook offers wonderful inspiration for the holiday buffet table, with such classic dishes as Comfort Chicken Pot pie, Hatch Green Chili Patty Melts, Brown Sugar Chili Over Cheese Grits, and Sunday Red Beans and Rice. But preacher’s wife and kitchen boutique owner Amy Hannon (http://www.eunamaes.com/2013/01/about-amy-hannon.html) offers cooks of all ages a wonderful enthusiasm about feeding the people in your life, whether it’s your immediate family  or a crowd of new friends. And she doesn’t forget about your sweet tooth in her first cookbook — a whole section of Love Welcome Serve is devoted to cakes, pies and other sugary treats. This book represents a nice change of pace from traditional party cookbooks.

Love Welcome Serve by Amy Nelson Hannon — Gotta Love It!