MARTHA STEWART'S MENUS FOR ENTERTAINING

Stewart, Martha

ISBN 10: 0517590999 / ISBN 13: 9780517590997

Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1994

About this Item

A very nice copy. With its delicious food, exquisite photographs, inspired styling, and useful information, Martha Stewart's Menus for Entertaining is the indispensable guide to entertaining today. There are 20 complete menus for a variety of gatherings, with more than 150 deliciously diverse recipes. To complement these lovely meals, Martha creates table settings and flower arrangements full of charm and personality. Bookseller Inventory # 39539

Bibliographic Details

Title: MARTHA STEWART'S MENUS FOR ENTERTAINING

Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Dana Gallager Photographs

Book Condition:Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 4th Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

Martha Stewart offers 20 complete menus for gatherings both large and small, casual and sophisticated--all reflecting an elegantly relaxed approach to entertaining in the '90s. With its delicious recipes, inspired styling, useful information, and exquisite photographs, this is the indispensable guide to hospitality. Full-color photographs.

From Publishers Weekly:

Just when you thought the lavish style of '80s-era entertaining was gone forever, Stewart (Martha Stewart's New Old House) releases another book destined to make party-givers want to blow up balloons and repolish their candelabras. Though she claims in her introduction that she now prefers simpler foods and fixings, Stewart's mashed potatoes still call for a stick of butter, a quarter cup of heavy cream and a cup of softened cream cheese. "Light" this isn't, but preparation and menus are indeed more spare than in the author's earlier efforts. In 20 chapters, she gives step-by-step instructions for assembling a theme party-whether a spicy Thai lunch or a fried green tomatoes brunch. Gone are the gilded pumpkins of yore; instead, Stewart's Halloween party calls for pumpkins stuffed with a savory mix of vegetables and chicken, topped with puff pastry and served with a cognac cream sauce on the side. Yet some of the rusticity espoused in the recipes verges on artificial: a country ham is to be baked atop a bed of grass. For the millions of urbanites who love her style, but cannot find an organic tussock, Stewart fails to suggest a substitute-say, a couple of bunches of parsley. But most of her fans will find this book inspiring and unintimidating. Author tour.
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