For special events, however, there is still nothing quite so welcome as a home-cooked meal. In Entertaining 101, mother and daughter Linda West Eckhardt and Katherine West DeFoyd provide all the information anyone will need to throw a terrific party at home. Each of the recipes has been tested not only by the authors but also by less experienced cooks. Each one has been simplified to eliminate all unnecessary steps. Each menu is accompanied by a carefully worked-out timetable so that every dish will be ready when it should be. And no menu requires more than an hour's preparation time in the kitchen, although some dishes may cook longer unattended--while you set the table or enjoy a cocktail with your guests.

The fifty-two seasonal menus--from a Winter Solstice Formal Sage Chicken Dinner to a Summer Supper from the Farmer's Market--will allow anyone to entertain "with style and grace" every week of the year. Each menu includes wine suggestions and useful tips for serving and decorating (although the authors emphasize that there are no absolute rights or wrongs). This may not be the age of Aquarius, but it is certainly the age of liberation--in the kitchen as well as everywhere else.

Other cookbooks by this author

• America Loves: America Loves Chicken
• America Loves Hamburger
• An American Gumbo: Affordable Cuisine for the Everyday Gourmet
• Barbecue: Indoors & Out
• Barbecue
• Barbecue: Indoors & Out
• Bread in Half the Time: Use Your Microwave and Food Processor to Make Real Yeast Bread in 90 Minutes
• Bread in Half the Time: Use Your Microwave and Food Processor to Make Real Yeast Bread in 90 Minutes
• Cakes From Scratch In Half The Time: Recipes That Will Change The Way You Bake Cakes Forever
• Dessert In Half The Time Use Your Food Processor: & Microwave to Make Great Desserts in Less Time Than It Takes to Buy a Pint of I ce Cream
• The Dog Ate It: Cooking For Yourself and Your Four-Legged Friends
• Feed Your Family on $10 a Day
• Half-Scratch Magic: 200 Ways to Pull Dinner Out of a Hat Using a Can of Soup or Other Tasty Shortcuts
• The High-Protein Cookbook: More than 150 healthy and irresistibly good low-carb dishes that can be on the table in thirty minutes or less.
• The High-Protein Cookbook
• The High-Protein Cookbook: More Than 150 Healthy and Irresistibly Good Low-Carb Dishes That Can Be on the Table in Thirty Minutes or Less.
• Linda Eckhardt's 1995 Guide to America's Best Food
• Linda Eckhardt's Great Food Catalog: Includes Recipes, Serving Suggestions, Mail-Ordering Information
• The New West Coast Cuisine
• The New West Coast Cuisine
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• The Only Texas Cookbook
• Pears
• Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
• Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
• Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
• Satisfaction Guaranteed: Simply Sumptuous Mail Order Foods With Recipes And Menus For Fast And Fabulous Meals
• Satisfaction Guaranteed
• Stylish One-Dish Dinners: Stews, stir fry, family dinners, and entertaining friends