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Art of Celebration: The Making of a Gala New York Style

Panache Partners

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Infused with crisp photography, this lavish collection highlights some of the most extravagant events held in New York City. Held at prominent locations such as the Rubin Museum, the United Nations, and Tappan Hill Mansion, each affair is accompanied by light-hearted editorial, providing a look behind the scenes at birthdays, corporate functions, religious milestones, and charity galas. From planners, caterers, and entertainers to floral designers, ice sculptors, and lighting gurus, this compendium shares the passions and motivations of the event industry's most popular specialists and even a few of their best-kept secrets to executing unforgettable occasions.

Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business: Insider's advice on turning your talent into a Career (Everything: Business and Personal Finance)

Joyce Weinberg

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Do you enjoy cooking for others? Is your buffet table a work of art? Are your parties the best in the neighborhood? Then catering may be a great career for you!

It's all here-from getting licenses and choosing the perfect name to developing menus and getting the word out. Seasoned food expert and caterer Joyce Weinberg covers all aspects of the catering business and shares her secrets to success with you, including how to:

• Choose a specialty-fancy fundraisers, company and family picnics, or romantic weddings
• Learn the ropes before you start your business
• Create a marketing plan that gets your company noticed by all the right people
• Find clients and generate repeat customers

The Everything® Guide to Starting and Running a Catering Business is all you need to make your passion your profession!

Joyce Weinberg is a seasoned food industry professional with twenty years of catering and restaurant management experience. She designed and managed her own acclaimed restaurant and catering company, Beyond Measure, in Philadelphia. She founded New York Food Tours & Events, a Manhattan-based food tour and guided tasting-event business. Ms. Weinberg lives in New York, NY.

Table Decor: Festive Occasions, Weddings, & Other Special Events

Ashley E. Rooney

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We all know how to set tables, but do we know how to make them beautiful? With this book, you can realize the magic of table decor. With over 300 color illustrations and many practical and inventive solutions, this book covers the table, from soup to nuts or gardens to dining rooms, and many places in between. This book acquaints you with the charm of table dcor, whether it is traditional, romantic, modern, or simple. The decorators featured are both professional and gifted, from many diverse backgrounds, and working in dozens of styles. There are ideas for every occasion and taste. By keeping the focus on texture, color, simple containers, and lots of ordinary household items, you can turn a simple meal into something fabulous by varying the items you use together. Here you will find the inspiration to create table settings with style, using your own china and silverware. See how designers and decorators mix, experiment, and create table d cor with modern accouterments or pair antiques with new, ornate, or simple.

Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005

Sarah D. Coffin, Ellen Lupton, Darra Goldstein, Barbara Bloemink

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"A journey through the evolution of Western dining" 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

From contemporary food design to the spectacle of eighteenth-century aristocratic feasts, this book examines the history of cutlery and dining ritual. A broad offering of [great, beautiful] pictures, and collection of texts that explore the social meanings and fascinating forms of table settings. A truly fascinating book. Somewhat specific, but highly recommended!

Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie: Menus, Tips, Strategies, and More Than 200 Recipes

Colin Cowie, Maureen Clancy

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Colin Cowie, one of the West Coast's preeminent specialists in catering and event planning, has been the mastermind of some of Los Angeles' most spectacular parties. Now, in Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie, he dedicates himself to helping you create the same effortless elegance when you entertain at home.

With enthusiasm, taste and style, Cowie teaches you how to entertain with ease and comfort and how to enjoy your own parties. One impressive yet easy menu, "Dinner When Time Is Short," takes just one hour, including shopping and preparation, leaving you plenty of time to relax and clean up before your guests arrive. Cowie's philosophy is based on enhancing the materials at hand. He tells you how to create a lasting impact with just one element -- a type of flower or a single color -- and use it to the greatest effect.

Beginning with "A Lazy Sunday Brunch" and ending with "Dinner in Front of the Fire Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie provides complete menus for all seasons and any occasion, from "An Elegant Cocktail Party" to "A Perfect Picnic." A sampling of the delicious menus and recipes includes: "A Casual Breakfast" with fresh grapefruit juice, fried apples and stewed prunes, almond pancakes, scrambled eggs with yogurt and chives, and chicken and fennel sausage; "A Rustic Luncheon" with a terrine of eggplant and roasted peppers with arugala sauce, seafood paella, and lemon sorbet with marinated grapefruit; and "A Cape Malay Barbecue" featuring curried lamb kabobs with mango chutney, basmati rice with toasted cashews, raisins and sultanas, a bulgur mint salad, and baked bananas with rum-spiked creme fraiche.

The recipes are designed to be prepared with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of aesthetic impact, freeing the party-giver from the kitchen and allowing him or her to enjoy the essence of the perfect party -- a close and companionable evening with good friends.

Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie is a gorgeously illustrated treasury with more than 250 color photographs, 200 recipes organized into 28 menus, and an abundance of effective strategies for making all of your parties, both large and small, sensational events to remember.

Nothing is impossible for Colin... He delivers fantasies and dreams that most people can only think of."--Emeril Lagasse

Entertaining on The Run

Marlene Sorosky

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True to the Title 4 out of 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful.

Whether you love to entertain or are sometimes forced to cook for guests, you will love this book. Marlene makes it easy to serve fabulous meals while taking the time to enjoy your guests. If you have not had the pleasure of owning one of her books, pick this one up. If you have, I imagine you grabbed this book as soon as it hit the shelves. Using her books always makes me feel like I have an old friend guiding me in my kitchen!

Very good for ambitious dinner parties 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I've made several of the dishes from this book, although admittedly I have yet to follow the whole menu for any her planned parties. Most have received rave reviews from my dinner guests, and standouts include a chuntney-blue cheese fillet of beef, and a non-traditional Thanksgiving menu featured a stuff turkey breast dish that went over great last November. (The only recipe with which I found fault was a warm tomato dressing - it has an odd consistency and never really quite worked. But even so, the pasta, salmon and spinach rollup salad that went with the dressing has become one of my staple dinner party/elegant luncheon dishes.)
Her recipes are thorough, and whilst they are pretty straight forward, frankly some are probably a bit more work than most novice cooks might be willing to put into a dinner party, as they take a fair amount of preparation. (The progressive dinner menu she offers has interesting recipes on its own, but even in my group of foodie friends, I think it would be hard to find enough people willing to make stocks from scratch, marinate things overnight and bake bread to pull it off.) Also, there are some excellent photos in the centre of the book, but no step-by-step photos; although the steps are pretty clearly stated, it would have been handy in a few instances. I think what makes this book worthwhile are her tips for how to coordinate everything, and to do many of the steps ahead of time, and to think through the menu. (She provides tips on what to do a month ahead, two weeks ahead, a day ahead and the day of the dinner party.) I don't know if all those steps work, as I usually only start to cook a dinner party a day or two ahead. I am not that much of a planner. So, despite her help, I'm just unlikely to start a month ahead for a romantic meal for two... but if you are the type who would, you should buy this book now.

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People today live their lives on the run and often entertain that way. Bestselling author Marlene Sorosky has put together innovative menus, never-fail recipes, and creative presentation ideas for entertaining that work with our speed-of-light lifestyle.

Entertaining on the Run is more than a compilation of fast and fantastic recipes that you can depend on every time. It's a complete party-planning guide from one of the country's leading experts and includes everything you need to throw a terrific party.

70 Napkin Folds and Table Decorations

Bridget Jones

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how to create special napkin and table displays for every occasion - tricks and secrets of the professional trade all shown in simple step by step photography

Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room: How to Have People Over for Dinner Without stressing Out

Kevin Mills, Nancy Mills

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The dynamic mother-son team who wrote Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen Cookbook now offers humorous advice and easy recipes for gen-Xers and other novice cooks who want to invite friends for dinner. When we last met Kevin Mills in the runaway, surprise bestseller Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen Cookbook, he was a recent college graduate who took a cooking-by-phone class from his mom in order to survive in the kitchen, eventually winning over his vegetarian girlfriend with his culinary skills. Now he's married to her, she's a doctor, and he still does all the cooking in their tiny kitchen. And now they entertain. With the same combination of witty writing and clever illustrations that earned the authors' first book accolades in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Seventeen, Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room dispenses straight advice and 150 easy recipes from a kitchen veteran, Mom, road-tested and written by her twentysomething son, who has taken out "all the fancy cookbook talk." With "Mom Tips" and "Mom Warnings," this book gives novices the benefit of Mom's experience without having her in the kitchen.

Easy Breakfast & Brunch: Simple Recipes for Morning Treats

Susannah Blake

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, arming you with the energy and stamina to face anything life might throw at you. And on lazy weekends what you really want is a leisurely, feelgood brunch. "Easy Breakfast and Brunch" provides dozens of ideas for every kind of morning treat. Make your own Granola or Muesli Bars or kickstart your day with a Winter Dried Fruit Compote. Sweet Treats will satisfy even the most decandent cravings and if you're after savory fare to starve off a real hunger, the Big Bites like Sausage and Bacon Rolls should fit the bill. And who doesn't enjoy breadkfast in bed? Spoil someone special with Easy Eggs and make them Creamy Scrambled Eggs on Rye or a Baked Brunch Omelet. Indulge in refreshing Pineapple Crush from Delicious Drinks. And when nothing else will do, reach for the Worcestershire sauce and pour yourself a Bloody Mary. *Healthy and indulgent options. *Mouthwatering suggestions from granola and muffins to omelets and smoothies.

You're Invited: A Cookbook for Special Occasions

Smallwood & Stewart, Mary Engelbreit

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For Mary Engelbreit, cooking is not a stress-inducing quest for perfection. Entertaining is not a life and death endeavor. After all, the whole point of entertaining is to have fun, right? In Mary's best-selling line of cookbooks, her sense of fun is always a key ingredient - to her approach, her presentation, and to the recipes themselves. You're Invited finds Mary doing what she does best: keeping it light and lively, having a good time, and providing practical tips on pulling off a perfectly wonderful entertaining event - from elegant dinners for two to all-your-neighbors-and-their-dogs cookout extravaganzas. Sections include: Finger Foods and Appetizers; Soups, Salads, and Side Dishes; Main Courses; Dreamy Desserts; Coolers and Cocktails. She'll be the first to admit that she's not a doyenne of domesticity, but Mary Engelbreit has thrown and attended plenty of parties - and the best of what she's learned is all here. You're Invited isn't just recipes - it's a treasury of party wisdom and a guerrilla manual for the art of entertaining. It's guaranteed to help you get in there and get the job done - after all, you deserve to have as much fun at the party as everyone else.