Fiesta at Rick's ─ Fabulous Food for Great Times With Friends

Whether you are hosting an intimate get-together for a few friends or an outdoor extravaganza for a crowd, famed chef Rick Bayless shows you the way. Rick presents 150 recipes, from libations and savory nibbles to street food and live-fire grilled meat and fish. Champagne margaritas or bacon-and-tomato guacamole will get a party started, and black bean tamales are perfect for small-dish snacking. For an evening around a grill, the Brava Rib Steak with "Lazy" Salsa will win fans. To go all out, you can end your party with Rick's Dark Chocolate??S-Chile Ice Cream.

Fiesta at Rick's features five inspired menus ranging from a no-fuss Luxury Guacamole Bar Cocktail Party for 12 to an Oaxacan Lamb Barbacoa Fiesta for 25. For each, Rick offers detailed advice and plan-ahead strategies.

Companion to the sixth season of Rick's public television series, Mexico--One Plate at a Time, Fiesta at Rick's is ideal for anyone who wants to spice up their parties.

Rick Bayless is the author of six cookbooks, including Mexican Everyday. His product line of prepared foods is sold coast to coast. He owns and operates three award-winning restaurants in Chicago: the casual Frontera Grill, named "Outstanding Restaurant" of the year by the James Beard Foundation; the 4-star fine-dining Topolobampo; and XOCO, a LEED gold-certified quick-serve restaurant that opened in September of last year. Rick won Bravo's Top Chef Masters competition and was named National Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation.
Deann Groen Bayless has coauthored six books with Rick; co-owns and co-operates Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and XOCO with him; and feels she's done a pretty good job nurturing along their teenage daughter, Lanie. She is a former president of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, a national organization that promotes the education and advancement of women in the restaurant industry, and is the administrator of the Frontera Farmer Foundation.