Entertaining: Inspired Menus for Cooking with Family and Friends

by George Dolese and Steve Siegleman

Book Overview

If you enjoy sharing your home and your table with friends and family, Williams-Sonoma Entertaining is for you. Its approach is fresh and informal: The secret to entertaining is delightful, engaging... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0848727819
• ISBN13: 9780848727819
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Super cute entertaining ideas

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.

A beautiful book for people who love to entertain

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.

Perfect book to have for entertaining!

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!

Food the ultimate melting pot

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.

Beautiful book -Delicious recipes

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.