Authors Famous Recipes and Reflections on Food or Great Entertaining

Authors' Famous Recipes and Reflections on Food

Author: Diane E Holloway

This unique cookbook includes over 200 recipes from well-known authors. In addition to recipes, information about each writer is included with many little known facts about them. Quotations by authors complement each recipe adding spice and humor.

Enjoy unique recipes such as Rex Stout's Bread Fried in Anchovy Butter, Charles Dicken's Hot Punch, Ernest Hemingway's Bloody Mary, Thomas Jefferson's Chicken Fricassee, Alexander Dumas' Potato Salad, Abigail Van Buren's Pecan Pie, Vincent Price's Chicken in Champagne Sauce, Garrison Keillor's Meatloaf, Lillian Hellman's Pot Roast, Sir Walter Scott's Cauliflower and Whiskey, Marjorie K. Rawlings' Cornbread, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Gingerbread, Alice B. Toklas' Brownies and Gazpacho, and many other.

Read also Wine Etiquette Guide or Theres a Chef in Your Freezer

Great Entertaining: 1001 Party Tips and Timesavers

Author: Bettie Bearden Parde

Great entertaining takes up where cookbooks leave off—providing a wealth of knowledge on party planning and party giving culled from successful hosts, caterers, florists, and other party professionals.

Drawing upon her own experience as an entertaining specialist, Bettie Bearden Pardee has distilled these practical suggestions and pointers into a quick and easy reference guide. At a glance, you will get an overview of such entertaining essentials as:

• Creating the guest list
• Deciphering a party rental contract
• Entertaining in small spaces
• Decorating and organizing secrets
• Pre-party checklists
• Hostess gifts—and what not to give
• Conversational gambits for surviving a party bore
• Easy, elegant, and economical floral choices

And most inviting of all—how to have fun at your own party.