Buffet Book: Inspired Ideas for New-Style Entertaining, With Recipes - Softcover

Peck, Carole; Bryant, Carolyn Hart

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9781931605090: Buffet Book: Inspired Ideas for New-Style Entertaining, With Recipes

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ISBN 10: 1931605092 ISBN 13: 9781931605090

Publisher: Ici LA Pr, 2002

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"The Buffet Book" is filled with reassuring, practical advice about every detail of buffet entertaining, and includes advance preparation tips throughout. Stunning photographs showcase inspired ideas for buffet table designs and locations: an all-through-the-house party in a charming farmhouse; a picnic buffet in a flower garden; a glittering champagne dinner in a formal dining room. Whatever the occasion or season, from a soup buffet for ten to a wedding luncheon for fifty, a buffet is the perfect choice for the way we live now.

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For entertaining large numbers of guests, buffets provide economies of space and serving time, permitting hosts to mingle with guests instead of having to serve course after course. Peck (and coauthor Bryant) has devised recipes to update predictable buffets. Cooks contemplating a buffet party are offered a range of practical advice on providing plates, silverware, and comfortable seating arrangements. Recipes employ the whole symphony of contemporary flavor combinations: polenta, fava beans, roasted garlic, and pomegranates. The authors clearly believe that attractive, tasty food offsets guests' inconvenience at having to serve themselves. Their opulent settings and table decorations give buffet parties a memorable aura. Alex McLean's lush and inviting photographs reinforce the presentation theses. Elaborately laid-out buffets give the book a decided caterers' image, but the pictures will stimulate amateurs as well as professional cooks. Mark Knoblauch

From Library Journal:

Peck is the chef of the Good News Cafe in northwestern Connecticut, where she also caters weddings, garden parties, and other such events. Here she presents 12 menus, from a spring dinner for ten to a holiday buffet for 20. Each begins with a brief introduction offering ideas for decorating, set-up, etc., and almost all of the imaginative recipes include Planning Ahead notes. Some of the menus are rather ambitious for home cooks, planning ahead or not, and some are generous to the point of extravagance?the guests at Peck's buffets must surely leave more than satisfied. However, Martha Stewart fans and others who like to entertain will enjoy this; for larger collections.
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