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Entertaining - Recommended Books
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Nathalie Dupree's Comfortable Entertaining : At Home With Ease and Grace
by Nathalie Dupree, Tom Eckerle (Photographer)
ISBN: 0670878855
Nathalie includes attractive and varied menus with thoughtful substitutions and shopping tips. There is a lot of general information plus table set-up photos, timed and prioritized preparation schedules, and suggestions for different-sized occasions.
Short & Sweet
by Melanie Barnard, Ann Stratton (Photographer)
ISBN: 0395901456An elegant dessert can do wonders to elevate mundane main courses to memorable meals, but who's got time to make them? You do -- all the dishes in this book take 30 minutes or less to prepare. Every meal should have one stand-out element that people can focus on when remembering the occasion. This book makes it easy for your dessert to take the honors.
Entertaining 1-2-3 : More than 300 Recipes for Food and Drink Using Only 3 Ingredients
by Rozanne Gold, Tom Eckerle (Photographer)
ISBN: 0316320153This book removes your last excuse for not entertaining: all the dishes have only 3 ingredients. Even you have time to shop for such limited supplies. Pictures of the foods are limited, but who cares? Did we mention how few ingredients everything has?
Millennium Party Book
by Lauren Floodgate, Lucy Knox
ISBN: 0789441810Lauren and Lucy jump right in with suggestions for vivid New Year's Eve parties enlivened with elements of other-culture millennium celebrations planned around the world. There are lots of useable ideas for Christmas, birthday and other year-round parties so the book doesn't go haywire at 12:01 on January 1. Several recipes of stylish canapes and main-dishes are included with planning and count-down-to-party prioritization tips.
Party! Food : Essential Guide to Menus, Drinks, and Planning
by Lorna Wing
ISBN: 1579590403Because sometimes you just gotta serve the cake Tom Cruise got for his birthday, Lorna has published food and entertaining ideas she developed as a caterer to the stars (Eric Clapton, Giorgio Armani, Terence Conrad, etc.). When you need a dish with a story, use one of these recipes and tell your guests you last ate it with Nicole Kidman.
Southern Living Party Cookbook
by Celia Marks
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-85026Sadly no longer in print, you can sometimes find this book at estate sales or in your grandmother's kitchen. Excellent source for tips and recipes for barbeques for 100, teas for 50, and other time-honored traditions of the South. Even if you never use it, it's fun to learn how Scarlett would have fed her bridge-club buddies.