Derby Start To Finish: The Ultimate Guide to Derby Menus, Recipes and Entertaining

Veteran Courier-Journal Food Editor Sarah Fritschner returns to share her best menus, recipes and tips for entertaining guests during Louisville, Kentucky's world-renowned Kentucky Derby. The Derby week in Louisville is all about events and parties and entertaining, and Sarah gives readers the secrets to pulling it all off in this ultimate guide to Derby foods and entertaining.

You'll find complete menus and recipes for virtually all Derby events -- picnics for the Thunder Over Louisville fireworks show and Great Steamboat Race; Sarah's favorite track snacks; a special Spaghetti Dinner for marathon runners; and many of her own best dishes for a Kentucky Oaks cocktail party or dinner, a traditional Derby Day brunch or dinner, and a final wind-down breakfast for the day after.

Sarah Fritschner is the Food Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and an authority on the southern-influenced foods of Kentucky, especially those associated with the Kentucky Derby. She is a frequent guest on regional food and cooking television shows, and a popular speaker and teacher of culinary techniques. In addition to her Butler Books titles, she is the author of the multi-volume "Fast Lane" series of cookbooks for Houghton-Mifflin.