"Bon Appetit" Entertaining with Style

Full-color photographs and more than two hundred easy-to-follow, delicious recipes highlight a complete guide to stylish entertaining to suit any occasion, accompanied by sidebars offering practical advice on everything from invitations to table settings. 20,000 first printing.

Sophisticated yet easy: Cocktails at Five, with Champagne Cocktails; Grilled Chicken Skewers with Red Pepper Pesto; Crabmeat, Corn and Cumin Salad in Endive Spears. Packable yet lavish:

Picnic in the Country, with Grilled Leg of Lamb with Kiwi-Mint Salsa; Black Bean, Corn and Squash Salad. Classic yet contemporary: Dinner and a Movie, with Martinis; Stuffed Mushrooms; Sour Cream Cheesecake. This is a book about having a party be everything you want it to be -- sophisticated, lavish, contemporary -- without hiring a staff, taking out a loan or taking time off from work. It's about entertaining the way it should be, entertaining now.