Henry Carter Hull

Presents menu, activity, and craft ideas for throwing memorable parties at any time of the year while offering advice on stocking party supplies, arranging flowers, and preserving foods at home.

Martha Stewart offers fifty-two meals, including thirteen menus for each season and photographs.

Culinary master James Beard's ultimate guide to entertaining is a must for any host or hostess Expert chef James Beard was passionate about food and even more passionate about entertaining. Beard's cookbooks, with recipes that have delighted for decades-such as duck glazed with honey and curry, and zucchini frittata-have long been a staple in the culinary libraries of home cooks. This thorough guide combines Beard's delicious menus with his expertise...

Personal chef Art Smith shares his thoughts on friendship, food, and family, and offers recipes from his own southern family traditions and over twenty years of professional experience; grouped in the categories of church suppers and pancake breakfasts, relishes, the family breakfast, lunch, and supper.

Ever wish you could host a glamorous bash like the ones covered in People magazine? You can-with tips and ideas from Linnea Johansson, party planner extraordinaire. She's thrown celebrations hosting some of the biggest names in the Big Apple, including Jennifer Lopez, Donald Trump, Reese Witherspoon, Sean Combs, and Martha Stewart. And on these fully-illustrated and festive pages is her best advice for planning a fabulous event. She covers everything...

Contains recipes from French chef Jacques Pepin, featuring step-by-step instructions for making fast and easy soups, eggs, salads, vegetables, pasta, fish, poultry, meat, and desserts.