Food for Friends: Simply Delicious Menus for Easy Entertaining

Fantastic and innovative enternaing guide that is great for planning parties of all sizes! Wonderful table settings pair with interesting but familiar pairings that make the dining experience feel exotic. The layout, pictures and design of this cookbook make it very user friendly!

This book is excellent! Great photos of all recipes and party designs. Good, wide range of recipes, (the salmon is a must try!). Just a fun, easy to read book with great new ideas. If you're remotely considering this book, buy it, well worth the price.

Love this book, I love to entertain, and this book provides you with so many ideas, it's great, and very diverse

I had to write a review for this book b/c I owe my cooking skills to Fran Warde. Before this book, I was afraid to entertain. I'd make lasagna again and again. Something safe and easy. And then I happened to come across Fran's book at Z Gallerie and it changed everything. This book showed me that cooking can be simple, fun, and entirely worth it. Fran's recipes are easy to prepare, fun to look at (tons of colorful pictures), and is good for a cook at any level. Pictures are so important for the novice chef b/c it helps with plating and setting the tone and the photographer took such excellent pictures of the dishes. The cookbook is also very well written and easy to follow. Also, the end products are very complex, but you'd be surprised how easy it was to get the ingredients (all available at your local supermarket). I am planning to get Fran's other book as well. Anyway, it was because of this book that I moved onto more advanced cookbooks. I think everyone should give this book a shot! Thanks, Fran!

This is just an outstanding production of great, creative menus served with flair and taste and style and all presented in glorious full-color photos throughout with great instructions and helpful advice.It is organized around events, e.g. Weekend Dings --- Sage and Stilton Flatbread; Roast Rib of Beef with Yorkshire Puddings, Carrot and Spinach Butter Mash, and Vin Santo Trifle. With each is A Work Plan, Wine Suggestions, and Serving Suggestions.Outstanding work which is so well done and very creative food!