Parties!: Menus for Easy Good Times($11.95Value)

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Includes twenty menus, over 150 recipes, cooking and storing tips, decorating ideas, and more for parties ranging from small dinners to bridal showers and picnics Barnard and Dojny are the authors of Sunday Slippers ( LJ 12/88) and Let's Eat In ( LJ 3/15/90), as well as of a monthly column for Bon Appetit . Here are their favorite recipes for entertaining, arranged by seasonal celebrations. They include planning-ahead notes for each menu and ideas for shortcut substitutions. However, there are lots of other menu cookbooks for entertaining, from The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook ( LJ 7/85) to Michael McLaughlin's The New American Kitchen ( LJ 8/90), not to mention Martha Stewart's contributions, and the recipes in this one are not particularly unusual. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Melanie Barnard is a food writer and monthly columnist for Bon Appetit magazine. Her many cookbooks include Parties, Cheap Eats, Low-Fat Grilling, and Marinades .