Entertaining: Inspired Menus for Cooking with Family and Friends

Great book for those who love to entertain and cook for others. Their themes are unique but easy to pull off, and I love how they also have crafts ideas on party favors, flower arrangements, decorating ideas, etc. in addition to the recipes. Probably my most favorite entertaining book so far.

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.

I LOVE the ideas they've given for family dinners, tea parties and such. The recipes sound wonderful..I'm dying to try the roast beets salad, stuffed dates with goat cheese and the chocolate walnut cake! The book also gives useful hints on what all can be prepared or assembled ahead. It makes it easier for us...I'm sure any and all guests you entertain using the themes and recipes presented in the book will really appreciate it!

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.

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.