Singing for Your Supper: Entertaining Ways to Be a Perfect Guest - Hardcover

Hazard, Edith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565120906 ISBN 13: 9781565120907

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 1996

Synopsis

In this witty and practical successor to RISING TO THE OCCASION, Edith Hazard offers the answer to awkward gatherings--twenty-six games, gimmicks, performance pieces, and projects, that you can bring to dinner parties, cocktails, family outings, and weekends in the country or at the beach. SINGING FOR YOUR SUPPER is illustrated with drawings and diagrams, but it's more than just how-to instructions. This is a philosophy--a way of looking at your role and responsibility when you're invited out. A perfect guest, Hazard suggests, knows when and how to help the host keep things moving. It means giving something of yourself, something that contributes to the success of the event.

About this title

About the Author:

Edith Hazard has managed a law office, sung lead in a jug band, taught Sunday school, and earned her BA in English at Bowdoin—meanwhile raising her four children. She is the author, with Wallace Pinfold, of the popular Rising to the Occasion: A Practical Companion for the Occasionally Perplexed.

From Booklist:

Before television, everyone was forced to bring some sort of amusement or entertainment to a dinner or party. Now etiquette master Hazard revives the almost lost art of guesthood by describing and explaining the how-tos of parlor games and outdoor antics. The 26 forms of amusing others en masse are woven into a gracious, never-ending narrative that paints rather vivid pictures. Think reading a palm is the province only of gypsies? Is juggling restricted to urban street-corner mendicants? Or is the art of hanging a spoon best learned by the under-10 set? Wise and witty ways to enliven a party and indulge the child in all of us. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1565120906
• ISBN 13: 9781565120907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192