THE BUSY MOM'S COOKBOOK

Until now, no one has written a cookbook that speaks directly to women who manage careers for part of the day and then put together an eight-layer lasagna at night, while trying to keep the kids entertained. The Busy Mom’s Table, by culinary star, Antonia Lofaso, will be the first cookbook to fill that gap.

As a young single mom, Antonia has toiled as an executive chef – she has been the private chef for Ryan Seacrest, and for EddieMurphy and his family – competed as a finalist on Top Chef and Top Chef All-Stars, prepared private dinners for Hollywood stars and foreign dignitaries, worked as a Culinary Producer, opened a new restaurant, and balances it all while attending the never-ending demands ofraising a young daughter. The Busy Mom’s Table will be the crazed mother’s guide to easily reconnect with family and friends through the shared pleasures of cooking and enjoying meals at home. Laced with anecdotes and lessons learned from Antonia’s own experience as a single mom, TV personality, and chef, the cookbook will take a light-hearted, humorous approach to encouraging mothers to use both cooking and dining at home as means to enhance relationships. As a chef and a mother, Antonia knows the bonds families create around bread and cheese, fruits and veggies, pancakes and cinnamon rolls. It’s her mission to help other mothers reclaim these opportunities, without becoming slaves to a hot stove. Ranging from fifteen minute recipes to more elaborate “grown-up” dishes, this cookbook will make it clear that you don’t have to be a chef to enjoy home cooking. Antonia also provides specific strategies for cooking with kids, relieving mothers of the inevitable headache that comes with trying to shoo the little ones out of the kitchen long enough to throw something together for dinner. With delicious breakfast recipes like The Best Blueberry Muffin and Fresh Ricotta with Figs, Honey, and Marcona Amonds, and amazing brown-bag lunches like her BBQ Chicken Pita Pocket and Turkey and Swiss Panini on Whole Grain Bread to dinners like Beef Stroganoff with Creamy Pappardelle and Fish Tacos with Arm Tomatillo Salad, readers’ mouths will be watering to try every dish. Antonia Lofaso is a professional chef and single mother living in Los Angeles with her 9-year-old daughter. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she has worked as Executive Chef at Spago and Foxtail restaurants in L.A. Her current restaurant is Black Market in L.A. She was a private chef for celebrities, such as Ryan Seacrest and Eddie Murphy. She placed fourth in Season 4 of Top Chef and third in Top Chef All-Stars. She has been profiled in numerous publications, including People, Parade, Bon Appetit, and Cookie magazines, as well as the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Confidential, and numerous online publications.