The Vogue Book of Menus and Recipes

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The Vogue Book of Menus and Recipes
for entertaining at home
This book is intended for the woman who entertains at home and is interested in good food, planned with style, cooked with care, and served correctly. Vogue believes that every hostess should make her guests feel she has done something special for them; the guests expect, and the hostess should give them, something more than the ordinary run of daily fare. This need not mean exotic or elaborate food, but a compliment to the guest is implicit in a carefully chosen menu.
Not only does The Vogue Book of Menus have the benefit of Vogue's experienced editors, but many of the menus are published as they have been served by famous American and European hostesses. The planning of the food and the suggestions about service (or the lack of
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it) are all governed by the same standards that generations of Vogue readers have relied on.
There is a large section on buffets,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Vogue Book of Menus and Recipes
for entertaining at home
This book is intended for the woman who entertains at home and is interested in good food, planned with style, cooked with care, and served correctly. Vogue believes that every hostess should make her guests feel she has done something special for them; the guests expect, and the hostess should give them, something more than the ordinary run of daily fare. This need not mean exotic or elaborate food, but a compliment to the guest is implicit in a carefully chosen menu.
Not only does The Vogue Book of Menus have the benefit of Vogue's experienced editors, but many of the menus are published as they have been served by famous American and European hostesses. The planning of the food and the suggestions about service (or the lack of
(Continued on back flap)
(Continued from front flap)
it) are all governed by the same standards that generations of Vogue readers have relied on.
There is a large section on buffets, another on seated dinner parties—large and small, formal and informal—and chapters on town and country luncheons, teas, cocktail parties, late suppers, including many menus with recipes for twelve to thirty people. There is also a specific food plan for a weekend with guests and with (almost) no household help. A particular effort has been made in these recipes to indicate what part of the preparations may be done in advance.
There are suggestions for the correct wines to serve with the menus; there are ideas about advance planning and logistics, about place cards, and about seating arrangements.
Through the years, Vogue has been an authoritative source of information about smart menus and interesting food. Distinguished hosts and hostesses have given their ideas and helped plan features obtainable in no other way. This unique treasury is the foundation for this book; each recipe has been tested and edited by Tatiana McKenna, who has also provided a number of her own recipes. The result is a practically foolproof collection, useful alike to the experienced hostess and to the young hostess with her first dinner party.
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