Sometimes you would like to make a celebratory meal without spending the day on a brown sauce. This is the book for those times. These recipes are for occasions on the scale of a birthday or an informal evening at home with friends. Some of the recipes do require more than casual involvement. Some (such as gyoza) even require that you cook in batches as the hungry wait. But none of them require you to have trained as a chef. Many quick and easy (but memorable) meals are here--spaghetti and meatballs, chicken cutlets--and so are some more unusual ones, such as moussaka and sukiyaki. Many of...