Celebrating Home: A Handbook for Gracious Living

PBS host and television chef Christy Rost brings her experience as a cooking teacher, lifestyle authority, entertaining guru, and home restoration expert together in her third book, Celebrating Home. Focusing on the joys of nesting and at-home gatherings, Celebrating Home encompasses every aspect of great entertaining for family and close friends. Gorgeous photos of individual dishes, party vignettes, and warm interiors illustrate a generous collection of delectable recipes. You'll find helpful serving suggestions, seasonal table settings, inspiration for creating a gracious home, and fresh floral arrangements, all set in the intimacy of Christy's nineteenth-century mountain home. Welcome Christy into your home and make every day a joyful, easy, and memorable celebration.

Christy Rost is a television chef and host of the long-running Texas cooking and lifestyle television series, Just Like Home. Her expertise in celebrating home and family has been featured nationwide on PBS and CREATE TV stations with her one-hour Holiday production for American Public Television, A Home for Christy Rost: Thanksgiving, centered around her stunning 1898 mountain home, Swan's Nest in Breckenridge, Colorado. Her forthcoming national television series, At Home with Christy Rost, is currently in preproduction. The author of two previous cookbooks, she is also a radio personality, culinary instructor, popular guest presenter for retailers, home shows, and charities. Additionally, she is a licensed Registered Nurse, and an avid gardener. She has a gift for making family feel special and friends feel like family. In all that she does, she shares her realistic and attainable approach to instilling casual living with affordable elegance and flair.