Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie: Menus, Tips, Strategies and More Than 200 Recipes for Easy Entertaining

Cowie, Colin; Clancy, Maureen

ISBN 10: 0062701525 / ISBN 13: 9780062701527

Published by HarperStyle / HarperCollins, 1996

About this Item

Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1996 HarperStyle - HarperCollins. SIGNED by author Colin Cowie on half-title page, with a personal inscription. Signed with first name only. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 9.25 x 12.25 inches, has yellow and white striped paper-covered boards with black spine and cover lettering. Front cover has facsimile of author's signature. Black & yellow striped decorative endpapers. Color photographs. High-quality glossy paper. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. 260 pages. Text by Maureen Clancy. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and small tears. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Seller Inventory # 8924

Bibliographic Details

Title: Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie: Menus,...

Publisher: HarperStyle / HarperCollins

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: signed by author

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Beginning with "A Lazy Sunday Brunch" and ending with "Dinner in Front of the Fire," Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie provides complete menus for all seasons and any occasion, from "An Elegant Cocktail Party" to "A Perfect Picnic." A sampling of the delicious recipes and menus includes: "A Casual Breakfast" with fresh grapefruit juice, fried apples and stewed prunes, almond pancakes, scrambled eggs with yogurt and chives, and chicken and fennel sausage; "A Rustic Luncheon" with a terrine of eggplant and roasted peppers with arugula sauce, seafood paella, and lemon sorbet with marinated grapefruit; and "A Cape Malay Barbecue" featuring curried lamb kabobs with mango chutney, basmati rice with toasted cashews, raisins, and sultanas, a bulgur mint salad, and baked bananas with rum-spiked creme fraiche.
The recipes are designed to be prepared with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of aesthetic impact, freeing the partygiver from the kitchen and allowing him or her to enjoy the essence of the perfect party - a close and companionable evening with good friends.
Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie is a gorgeously illustrated treasury with more than 250 full-color photographs, 200 recipes organized into 28 full menus, and an abundance of effective strategies for making all of your parties, both large and small, sensational events to remember.

About the Author:

Colin Cowie writes a monthly feature for In Style magazine and is the founder of Colin Cowie Lifestyle, an event planning, catering, design, and production company in Los Angeles.