• ISBN13: 9780615739076
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Wind Shadow Press
• Publisher Imprint: Wind Shadow Press
• Publication Date: February 11, 2013
• Pages: 326
• Original Price: USD 17.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 481 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Entertaining

In her engaging new book, the author of the award-winning memoir Encounters: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers illuminates the culinary dimensions of that story. As a young bride, Nancy Forster was challenged by her new role as a diplomatic hostess in a distant land, without the familiar conveniences of home. At first, she struggled to prepare simple meals for her husband and herself. As her confidence, recipe collection, and family grew, she learned to provide stylish refreshment to a steady stream of guests, as well as delicious meals at home. Featured here are recipes collected across the globe-in the Philippines, Japan, Burma, Israel, Washington D.C., Hawaii, and California-along with vignettes about the author's dining companions and their cultures. From intimate dinners for six to official receptions for two hundred, readers will take pleasure in traveling along on this sixty-year adventure-A Culinary Journey. "Nancy weaves elements of history and culture together with her recipes, honed from the very successful career that she and her husband had in representing the U.S.A. to foreigners. Mrs. Lane and I had the pleasure on several occasions of seeing the two of them in action overseas. They made us proud!" -Ambassador Bill Lane, former Sunset magazine publisher

Nancy Keeney met Clifton Forster while they were both students at Stanford University. They were married in 1949 and immediately launched on his thirty-four-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. As she faced the challenges of learning to cook and acting as diplomatic hostess during their journey from one Asian city to another, Nancy Keeney Forster took on two additional careers: mother of three and teacher of high-school history. In recent years, she has gathered and published stories of her husband's unusual childhood and their family's diplomatic journey (Encounters: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers, 2009) and the experiences of students, alumni, and teachers in the International Baccalaureate Program (Journeys in Learning Across Frontiers: Stories, Strategies and Inspiration from the IB Community, 2012). In 1995, the Forsters moved to Tiburon, California, where they continued to travel, to entertain family and friends, and to experiment with new dishes. Cliff died in 2006. Their three children and five grandchildren are also crossing cultural and culinary frontiers at home and abroad. Visit the author's website at www.windshdowpress.com.