Entertaining at Home: Inspirations from Celebrated Hosts

(Hardback)

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Leading party aficionados share their successful strategies for delighting family and friends, offering their personal viewpoints and providing behind-the-scenes details that go into creating memorable occasions. They offer their approaches to arranging flowers, setting the table, selecting menus, stocking the pantry, compiling killer playlists, and purchasing the perfect hostess gift. Included are a variety of easy-to-master delectable recipes, such as bacon-wrapped pretzels, seafood chowder, spicy gazpacho, and refreshing sangrias.

From a summer social in New Orleans and a lively luncheon in Texas to a lavish winter smorgasbord holiday dinner in Washington, D.C., the hosts offer a myriad of inspirational ideas. Whether it's an elegant table set with Leontine Linens or Pinot Grigio served in colourful cups and paired with potato chips and caviar, this book is a visual trove of festive get-togethers in beautiful residences. Lavishly photographed, it is the essential new go-to entertaining guide

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"Blogger turned book author Ronda Carman has released her second bookEntertaining at Homewhich features the homes and recipes from friends in the worlds of interior design, architecture, culinary arts and fashion...Rondas book brings it right into the home with intimate celebrations across the country. Gorgeous photography, table settings and yummy food make this book not only inspirational but also attainable." SURROUNDINGS

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Ronda Carman is the author of Designers at Home and a contributing writer for the Huffington Post and New York Social Diary.
India Hicksis an author, model, and entrepreneur. Her lifestyle brand, India Hicks, produces beauty and home products and fashion accessories.
Matthew Meadand Michael Hunter are lifestyle photographers.