Synopses & Reviews
This cookbook, from the Today Shows entertaining expert, shows how to throw parties with an original flair for presentation. Picture Perfect Parties provides brilliant ideas for a years worth of get-togethers, covering every holiday and occasion. Annette Joseph has developed an arsenal of tricks for making entertaining easy. Her focus is always on making use of items that are already on hand in the house, ingeniously transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary without spending a lot of money. Each chapter shows how to create a total environment around a unique theme. Her philosophy centers on the idea that the best way to bring people together is to create table presentations that excite the eye and delight the imagination as much as they do the palate. Sidebars sprinkled throughout give step-by-step instructions for the inventive trappings that make an event memorable, such as centerpieces, place cards, takeaway containers, and linens. Among the recipes you are likely to find some that will become everyday favorites, such as Carrot Farro Soup with Charmoula, Cheese Puffs with Sage, Lemon Shrimp Risotto, and Sweet and Sour Tuscan Kale. From simple to lavish, Picture Perfect Parties delivers brilliant solutions to create fabulous and foolproof parties.
About the Author
Annette Joseph,
Today Show entertaining expert, knows how to throw a party. Her motto: Make it simple and make it gorgeous! She is able to combine down-to-earth gusto with do-it-yourself brilliance to create an entertaining cookbook for people who want to entertain more and with panache.
PICTURE PERFECT PARTIES provides an arsenal of tricks for a year’s worth of get-togethers, holidays, and special occasions—including Easter brunch, Cinco de Mayo, summer grill-outs, picnics and barbecues, holiday cocktails, and the Super Bowl— guaranteed to make at-home entertaining easy. Annette Joseph’s tasty recipes and fool-proof advice will ensure that you can throw parties with a sense of ease and flair.
Joseph is able to show readers how to ingeniously transform the ordinary into the extraordinary without spending a lot of money, and without sacrificing style. Each chapter of PICTURE PERFECT PARTIESshows how to create a total environment around a unique theme. The recipes and menus are not only delicious, and focused on seasonal ingredients, but are designed so that they can be made in advance and portioned individually—a time-management must for the host or hostess. Among the recipes, you will find some that will become everyday favorites, such as White Bean Farro Soup, Parmesan Crisps, Lemony Risotto, and Tuscan Sweet and Sour Kale. Sidebars sprinkled throughout give step-by-step instructions for the inventive trappings that make an event memorable, such as centerpieces, place cards, takeaway containers, and linens. From simple to lavish, PICTURE PERFECT PARTIES delivers brilliant solutions to create fabulous parties.