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Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others Hardcover – August 29, 2023

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One of Food & Wine's Best Cookbooks of Fall 2023 • One of NPR's 2023 "Books We Love" • An Epicurious Best Cookbook of 2023 • A Good Housekeeping Best New Cookbook of 2023 • One of Wired's Best Cookbooks of 2023 • One of WBUR Here & Now's Best Cookbooks of 2023 • One of Boston Globe's Best Cookbooks of 2023 • One of Wine Country's Best Cookbooks of 2023

From beloved writer and cook Amy Thielen comes a year of inventive recipes and twenty menus for the “let’s do it at my house” set―and those who aspire to it.

In her much-anticipated follow-up to The New Midwestern Table, Amy writes, “no one will ever care about the food as much as you and I do.” Company will have you rethinking the way you entertain, throwing dinner parties that are less formal, more frequent, and as fun for the cook as for the guests. Preaching leniency, not-guilty pleasures, and the art of making it in advance, Amy soothes the most common party anxieties one by one. Her reflections on writing menus, produce shopping, and how to time a meal are novel but timeless. Not afraid of meat (but obsessed with vegetables), these 125 loyal recipes are arranged in menu form―from intimate dinner parties to larger holiday feasts to parties that serve up to twenty.

With a feast of gorgeous photography and plenty of down-in-the-pan cooking nerdery, Company encourages a return to the habit, and the joy, of cooking for family and friends.

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Warm Wilted Spinach with Caramelized Celery Root and Crispy Shiitakes

Ham Cooked in Milk, Honey, and Sage

Muskmelon Caprese

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"Amy Thielen’s steak-night menu of wood-fired rib eyes with fava butter, grilled pickled half-hots, salt potatoes, boiled zucchini with herb oil, and a smoky tomato terrine sounds like a perfect menu to me. Sure, every component can stand on its own―but really, it’s all of them together that has me dreaming of bottles of wine, dim lights, and messy tablecloths. . . . [Thielen] brings her romantic but practical approach to her writing and menus."
― Emma Wartzman, New York

"A decade after her debut cookbook, The New Midwestern Table, ex-Food Network host Amy Thielen has produced a sequel. Company’s calling, and the result is menu after menu of plates serving six to 20. . . . Just pick and choose any Thielen recipe you want for dinner; even downscaled, they overdeliver."
― T. Susan Chang, NPR

"Though the concept of feeding a group of six, 12, or perhaps even 20 can spark anxiety in the heart of even the most confident home cook, Amy Thielen . . . and her new book will empower you to do just that―casually! . . . . Thielen’s humor and candor, along with the reminiscent-of-a-family-album photography, make the book approachable and fun."
― Vanessa Pamela Friedman, Vogue

"Dinner parties should be about love, not stress, and in Amy Thielen’s hands they can be. . . . She offers menus for gatherings casual and formal, small and large, with helpful tips and a welcome eye toward food costs. Whether the host is preparing wood-fired steaks with fava butter from the 'Supper Club Night' menu, spiced meatballs with creamed gravy and mascarpone whipped potatoes for Christmas Eve, a potato tortilla and sausages with mustard-miso sauce for family brunch, or spicy cinnamon flan for an Argentine-style barbecue, the event will be a good time. And that’s what matters most."
― Devra First, Boston Globe

"[Company] has a no-nonsense-yet-kind voice that captures the joy one can get from cooking for friends and family, Thielen’s helpful hand ensuring that every dish sings."
― Jackie Varriano, Seattle Times

"Your best dinner party menus of 2023 will come from this new cookbook. . . . Reading each of Thielen’s warm descriptions feels like opening the door of her cabin and going inside, finding the buffet table and piling your plate high."
― Maggie Hoffman, Epicurious

"Amy Thielen’s relaxed, easy style makes you want to pick up the phone and invite a group of friends over this weekend. The menus are appealing: In the section 'Pent-Up Winter Grilling' you’ll find recipes for Deviled Egg Dip, Bundy Pan Chicken with Bagna-Cauda Butter, Fun-House Baked Potatoes, and more. There’s menus for Saturday night, Holidays, and casual buffets."
― Kathy Gunst, WBUR

"Rethink the way you entertain with Amy’s clever recipe and menu ideas."
― Better Homes & Gardens

"[Company] emphasizes recipes that are best suited to serving to a crowd, but are also easy to prep ahead of time. Additionally, Thielen makes cooking with fresh produce a large part of the book’s overall objective. What is most exciting about the book’s recipes, however, is that many are presented in the form of a menu to further emphasize the love for food and celebration."
― Cory Fernandez, Patty Catalano, and Kristina Razon, The Kitchn

"[Company] is an ode to having people over, not entertaining (or the “E-word” as [Thielen] calls it), but project cooking and long visits, where people spill out into lawns and everyone hangs around fire pits or outdoor grills, even in the middle of winter. The book is organized by occasion (fish frys, holidays, family brunch around the fire pit) with a complete menu for each. Tbh, her lyrical headnotes and the photos of snowscapes, pine-framed lakefronts, and wool coats hung next to wood-burning stoves, are as much of a draw as the food."
― Jenny Rosenstrach, Cup of Jo

"This book is written so beautifully. Thielen is equal parts cook and writer, the sort of person whose word choice in a recipe get me really revved up. . . . The book sings because of this recognition, that cooking is a practice unique to each person, and sometimes all a cookbook author can do is offer up some words and say here, maybe this? Or here is how I do it."
― Marian Bull

"We’ve long been fans of Amy Thielen’s cooking. Her recipes bring styled-out flourishes to the kitchen repertoire. And then there’s her writing: with Thielen’s first cookbook, The New Midwestern Table, she became our generation’s Laurie Colwin, dramatizing the all-five-senses thrills of cooking with a nurturing voice that made readers feel: I got this. Company broadens the scope, torquing up the ambition to menu-based parties like a Friday-night Fish Fry for eight or an Argentinian-Style Asado for twenty or more. Packed with real-life tips, hacks, and kitchen inspiration, every sentence of this book will make you a better, happier cook!"
― Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen

"An exuberant, irreverent love letter to abundance in all its forms: friendship, care, pleasure, and beautiful food that brings them all together."
― Chelsey Johnson, author of Stray City

"Amy Thielen’s recipes and writing capture the true rhythms of the kitchen, from the glamour and glee of an overloaded table to the welcome quiet of a dish-stacked sink. This book is a practical and economical guide to cooking for a crowd. It’s also fancy and funny and fun. Reading and cooking with Company feels like being invited to the sort of party I crave―and it makes me want to throw my own blowout feast as soon as humanly possible."
― Kate Lebo, author of The Book of Difficult Fruit

"A treasure―after spending time with Amy Thielen’s intimate, spirited, and often funny writing in Company, you’ll want to have her at your party, too."
― Mayukh Sen, author of Taste Makers

"The most gorgeous and useful cookbook I’ve seen in a long time. Amy Thielen’s recipes are always foolproof, and company-pleasers for sure. This book inspires what we need more than ever right now, community. I will be cooking from it for a long time."
― Jeni Britton-Bauer, entrepreneur and author of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts

"Amy has written a beautiful guide to ease our worries and provides us with 125 well-tested, no fail recipes – arranged in menu form. From small dinner parties to larger holiday feasts that serve up to twenty (and even a section on holiday baking!), everything is laid out for the cook whether said cook be a novice or experienced player in the kitchen. Packed with stunning photography, Company encourages us to return to the joy of cooking for family and friends without all the fuss and muss."
― Jenny Hartin, Eat Your Books

"Thielen delivers again with warm, encouraging, and delicious menus that will have readers excited to plan their next crowd-pleasing event."
― Sarah Tansley, Library Journal

"Double-dipped fried chicken and the single-origin chocolate cake don’t need to be saved for a big event. Those appreciative of hearty Midwest cooking and entertaining large crowds will find inspiration here."
― Jessica S. Levy, Booklist

About the Author

Amy Thielen is the James Beard Award–winning author of The New Midwestern Table and the memoir Give a Girl a Knife. Previously, she was the host of Heartland Table on Food Network. She lives in northern Minnesota.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (August 29, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 132400150X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1324001508
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1.2 x 10.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #149,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #40 in Midwestern U.S. Cooking, Food & Wine
- #159 in Seasonal Cooking (Books)
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Amy Thielen is the author of the James Beard award-winning The New Midwestern Table and the host of Heartland Table on Food Network. She worked for celebrated New York City chefs David Bouley, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Daniel Boulud before moving back home to the Midwest, and now speaks and writes about home cooking for radio and magazines, including Saveur, where she’s a contributing editor. She lives with her husband, visual artist Aaron Spangler, their son, his dog, and a bunch of chickens, in rural Park Rapids, Minnesota. Follow her at www.amythielen.com and @amyrosethielen on Instagram/Twitter.

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, describing it as excellent, with one customer noting it is very descriptive and another mentioning it is really down to earth.

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"...all the bases - delicious recipes, really helpful menus, and great stories and tips!..." Read more

"...This one was a hit. She loves the writing. It makes her smile. Stories are from a mid-western perspective (Minnesota)...." Read more

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"...The recipes were so complex with unusual ingredients and methods of cooking. I’m not sure I will try any of them. I planned to write a bad review...." Read more

"...recipes and they all turned out perfectly - honeydew and cucumber salad with cilantro/lime dressing, grilled garlic bread with bacon fat and tomatoes..." Read more

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Two Tents
Next level, especially for midwesterners like me.
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2023
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Ingredient amounts are approximations. Especially suspicious are spice mixtures, which are always, though perhaps somehow necessarily, too neatly proportioned, as though our imagined culinary law followed that of the “Vitruvian Man”. As if the balance is best conveyed in terms of quantity, not quality.* But we have to start somewhere. So, given that, for a lazy opportunist such as myself, the more local and contemporary the cookbook, the less I have to squint to read it. Amy Thielen’s book is to me then, in today’s online parlance, just ‘bangin’. Actionable intelligence, as they say in Washington. I've come to trust her creative but respectful midwestern adaptations, as well as the seminal experience she brings to bear on the more European traditions, like French and, as can still be seen in this latest offering, Austro-Hungarian. And now I see Asian and more Hispanic influences! As we should! Thank you Amy Thielen. A joy to read.

I'm ramping up to tackle one of the menus soon. And will report back if I've the energy.

I should add I'm currently reading Company as much for the advice as for the recipes. The menus are involved, so, at the outset, I'll be sure to take her advice, without complaint, and thankfully ... at least until I get the hang of it. Then, true to form, I'll make a mess of things and figure out my own way. Lol. With regards to reading the recipes, she tells us not just what to do, but also what to look for when doing it. I need that. Many cookbook authors do that, of course, but she does that so well. Very descriptive. Really down to earth and insightful.

*Chef Paul Prudhomme is as close to realizing this ill-fated lingua franca as we can get. Every recipe has its own spice mixture, of mostly the same ingredients as other mixtures but in different proportions. Yet even his tomatoes are “Cajun Tomatoes”, so what now? A trip to Louisiana, maybe New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Just kidding. I mean, does Mr. Prudhomme’s New Orlean’s even exist anymore, anywhere? It must, I guess. And whats it mean to be “Authentic” anyways? We read sometimes: “This is my family’s recipe for authentic chop suey, every family has one.” Its all so tiring. It’ll be a mark of my maturity when remarks like the above, which comprise 95% of all and sundry online and in print, make me laugh like an idiot instead of cry.

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I LOVE this cookbook!
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023
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Amy writes such fabulous cookbooks - the recipes are delicious and all her books are great reads, as well. Tonight I made three recipes and they all turned out perfectly - honeydew and cucumber salad with cilantro/lime dressing, grilled garlic bread with bacon fat and tomatoes, and dill dip with vegetables. All of them were outrageously good and everyone ate up everything and raved! The book is such a treat because it covers all the bases - delicious recipes, really helpful menus, and great stories and tips! I highly recommend this book if you love cooking AND reading a really great cookbook! PS - I am definitely going to make her lardo crisped Turkey for thanksgiving this year!

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Baker Runner
Not my kind of recipes, but loved her writing!
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024
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I wanted simple recipes that would entertain my company in a way they would remember. The recipes were so complex with unusual ingredients and methods of cooking. I’m not sure I will try any of them. I planned to write a bad review. But as I read her notes, I fell in love with her writing. It made sense and was down to earth…sometimes funny. She’s not an Ina Garten, but I bet she can cook!

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Teres Counts
lovely thoughtfull cook book
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2024
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This cook book has interesting recipes you don't see often. It's written in an event style format where you get the skinny on how to put it all together for a fun unique evening your guest will be talking about for months and begging you to do more!

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Great gift for Mom
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2024
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It gets challenging every gift-giving occasion to find a quality gift for Mom. This one was a hit. She loves the writing. It makes her smile. Stories are from a mid-western perspective (Minnesota). She has yet to try the recipes but I’m confident she will.

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Excellent writing and relatable recipes
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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Amy Thielen is a wonderful storyteller who aptly depicts the cozy small town Minnesota vibe. We have a summer lake cabin in her area and often frequented the small German restaurant she speaks of. Her recipes are easy to follow and provide one with a sense of culinary warmth as you discover her elevated twist on traditional comfort food.

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Jane , L.A.
I do not cook venison or anything else on a farm outside in the snow, personally
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024
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I am as far from the demographic of the author’s target audience as they come. Who knew? I should have known. At least I got the book used, for very little money. I ❤️ Amazon’s used book platform. My office has a “take-a-book, leave-a-book” nook, and some rugged outdoors-person/cook will love this. It’s a VERY good cookbook— just not for urban indoor MOI 😂

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Jacqueline E.
Not relatable
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2024
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I live in the Midwest but this cookbook was much more hyper specific than I thought it was. Writing is beautiful but the recipes are lofty and unreasonable for anyone outside the region of the author’s residence. It really should have been branded as an upper Midwest, Nordic cookbook. Half of the ingredients in some of the suggested menus are not available in most places.

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