"Entertaining at home is one of the nicest and most relaxed ways to spend time with friends and family. With Betty Cocker's Easy Entertaining, you can make the experience as pleasant for yourself as it is sure to be for your guests." "This easy-to-follow guide is divided into four chapters, to reflect the seasons of the year, featuring inventive menus that highlight the most enjoyable aspects of the season. Plan a Maple Syruping Breakfast, Spring Planting Party, Dinner Under the Stars, Summer Clambake, Garden Harvest Dinner, Cozy Winter Lunch, Before-the-Slopes Breakfast or other seasonal meals." "You'll also find tempting menus to put new life into favorite holidays with a Fourth of July Picnic, Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas Dinner and Valentine's Day Dinner for Two." "Best of all, each menu includes specific and easy-to-follow entertaining suggestions to make planning and hosting a meal virtually effortless. You'll find suggestions for decorating your home as well as your table, ideas for invitations, suggestions for activities, and recipe tips to make planning and cooking the meal more efficient. Throughout, beautiful full-color photographs enhance the menu tips, showing many menus in their entirety, along with photographs of specific recipes and decorating ideas. Together, the photographs and the entertaining suggestions will give you creative ideas to make your entertaining special and memorable." "Whether you are new to entertaining or an old hand, Betty Crocker's Easy Entertaining will be endlessly useful. You can plan a first dinner party knowing the meal will be beautiful and delicious to eat or follow a summer wedding menu that will delight the most discriminating guests. With Betty Crocker, you can be sure entertaining will be delectable and fun."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved