make-ahead

In summer 2009, Publix closed both Make-Ahead Meals locations citing lack of customer interest.

Publix, in 2005, introduced its Apron's Make-Ahead Meals concept, where customers could purchase six, eight, or twelve meals that they could assemble in-store.

Al strives to keep his recipes simple and he gave us an example of one at the convention as he talked his way through the "Make-Ahead Roast" and gave us delicious tastes of the same.

Ever the trained restaurateur, she offers "Make-Ahead Notes" in this book, written with Joan Schwartz, in case you're going to be very laid back, very orderly in preparing that dinner party: "The tomato-cumin broth can be refrigerated up to three days," she says for a halibut dish.