Jen Stevenson Books

Explore a comprehensive guide that highlights Portland's top family-friendly outings, activities, and attractions. This portable resource offers a variety of engaging options for families, ensuring memorable experiences and adventures throughout the city. Perfect for planning day trips, it serves as an essential tool for discovering fun and exciting places to visit with loved ones.

Camp food has never been tastier, easier, or more stylish with more than 75 recipes and countless tips from the authors of the IACP Award-winning The Picnic.

Winner, IACP Cookbook AwardA picnic is a great escape from our day-to-day and a chance to turn a meal into something more festive and memorable. The Picnic shares everything you need to plan an effortless outdoor get-together: no-fail recipes, helpful checklists, and expert advice. With variations on everyone’s favorite deviled eggs, 99 uses for a Mason jar (think cocktail shaker, firefly catcher, or cookie jar), rules for scoring lawn games, and refreshing drinks to mix up in crowd-friendly batches, let The Picnic take the stress out of your next party and leave only the fun.

As beer lovers well know, there has never been a better time to be a beer drinker. But all that beer begs for the right food to go with it! This collection serves up 65 globe-roaming and simple recipes from appetizers to snacks and main courses that go beyond typical pub grub with recommendations of beer styles and widely available must-try brews for each dish. Beer Bites is ideal for the growing cadre of craft beer lovers eager to explore the basics and nuances of beer and food pairings, whether they are hosting tasting nights or just enjoying one good brew at a time.

From the IACP Award-winning authors of The Campout Cookbook and The Picnic, Hello, Summer! is a highly giftable handbook with inspired recipes for summer house entertaining, waterfront meals, and delicious bites to complement a sun- soaked day.

From the IACP Award-winning authors of The Picnic, The Campout Cookbook, and Summer: A Cookbook, The Snowy Cabin Cookbook features comforting, ingenious recipes to warm and nourish along with tips to keep us cozy all winter long.

Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent Era through the eighties, making and drinking their own cups of joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Cafe bridges the vibrant coffee culture of right-now with the glamorous coffee culture of the star-studded past. A dream cast of nearly 200 stars--Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, Elvis Presley, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., William Holden, Lauren Bacall, John Wayne, and many more--is captured on the set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes and at the kitchen table, refilling and refueling, sipping and savoring, drinking the good stuff, just like us.

A cookbook and lookbook of more than 75 easy-to-make themed lunchbox creations to bring inspiration, joy, learning, and nutrition to a child's midday meal, from IACP Award-winning authors Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson.