She has dazzled family and friends in the musical world for more than fifty years with her delectable cooking—and now she shares her secrets. After years of producing superb meals for Maestro Arthur and their family and friends the world over, Nela Rubinstein has at last put down in this charming and inspiring cookbook her most coveted recipes, her refreshing thoughts on menus for all sorts of occasions (and non-occasions), and her joyous memories of cooking for those she loves. Her style in the kitchen is a combination of the old-world Polish cooking on which she was raised with touches of the cuisines of France and Spain, where the Rubinsteins lived, and of the easy American ways that she made her own during their years in California and New York.