At last, a guy-friendly cookbook to impress and entice your female dining companion. Anyone can take a date to a fancy restaurant, but cook her dinner and you prove you can not only bring home the bacon but also fry it up in a pan. This collection of 24 delicious, easy recipes starts with the assumption that the reader knows pretty much nothing. You get the basics (what equipment to use, which embarrassing items you should hide before she arrives at your place) as well as suggestions for accompanying wine and music selections. All the essential ingredients for a successful dinner date are here-along with a lot of humorous commentary on the trials and tribulations of the kitchen.

Alex Hilebronner Is a sought-after professional private chef in Los Angeles who has worked for A-list clients (one of whom once demanded she FedEx him meals while he was working in a foreign country). Doug Veith and Tom Greenwood are professional guys who, not surprisingly, cook like guys. Their guyish inclinations in the kitchen have been tempered and abetted by Alex's culinary expertise and intuition as well as her womanly insight.

Agent: Brian DeFiore