Williams-Sonoma Entertaining: Inspired menus for cooking with family and friends [Hardcover]

George Dolese (Author)

Book Description

Series: Williams-Sonoma Entertaining | Publication Date: October 1, 2004

Packed with clever ideas, delicious recipes, and gorgeous color photography, Williams-Sonoma Entertaining is the ultimate guide to a successful party. The secrets of easy entertaining are demystified with helpful sections such as planning menus, buying quality ingredients, coaxing the best flavors out of food, and stocking a bar. Organized by season, each themed menu features accessible recipes driven by fresh ingredients; an easy-to-follow work plan; and detailed how-to photos depicting styling ideas.

Key Features:

* Sixteen seasonal menus with more than 100 simple, delicious recipes

* Beautiful full-color photography shows every recipe as a finished dish, plus key preparation, cooking, and serving techniques

* Inspiring photos show creative ideas for table settings, flower arranging, and party favors

* Dozens of ideas for successful parties, from planning a menu to mixing creative cocktails to shortcuts for preparing the meal

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848727819
• ISBN-13: 978-0848727819
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1.2 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Food the ultimate melting pot, July 31, 2006

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Yellow Roses "Mighty Mo" (Kingston, Jamaica,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Williams-Sonoma Entertaining: Inspired menus for cooking with family and friends (Hardcover)

Thank you for a wonderful book that gives us outside of North America an opportunity to create awesome menus and by extension meals with what we have. I live in Jamaica and was inspired by each menu. It is summer but I follwed the Easter Brunch menu slavishly. I enjoyed the Wine Lovers Evening and was delighted to find a things to do with all the wine corks I have been saving.

I believe a strength of this book is the instructions which feel more like suggestions which you just fall into and you do and they make the entire evening a success. There may well be other books that do this but I would say that this book is moving to the head of my class of my over 60 cook books.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book for people who love to entertain, December 5, 2006

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James Means "jamesinhouston" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Williams-Sonoma Entertaining: Inspired menus for cooking with family and friends (Hardcover)

This really isn't so much a cookbook as it is a book for people who love to entertain. The book has party/entertaining ideas divided by season. Each season has 4 entertaining "ideas", each of which is amazing.

The recipes are terrific but more importantly, the book includes table settings and ideas for party favors and gifts for your guests. It's a beautifully photographed and thoughtfully written book with a wealth of great ideas about how to entertain. It has something for both the novice and seasoned party giver. Buy it, read it, and throw a dinner party--that's my advice! Then you can bask in the glow of your guests' admiration.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book -Delicious recipes, November 25, 2005

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Max Kate "Cookbook Collector" (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Williams-Sonoma Entertaining: Inspired menus for cooking with family and friends (Hardcover)

The recipes are delicious and easy to make- the photos are beautiful and the book inspires you to entertain simply and elegantly. One of my favorite cookbooks.