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Garden Party: Cookbooks for parties

Recipes for home cooks tend to be formulated for a specific numbers of diners, usually 2, 4 or 6, which are all fairly common family numbers. Most recipes are easy to double, so you can turn a chicken dinner for four into a meal for eight quite easily. Recipes for entertaining and parties, however, are different. You generally want small or bite-sized portions and need a single recipe that will feed a house or yard full of people. Fortunately, there are several cookbooks on the market that can help you out here by providing you with lots of recipes that a specifically geared towards pleasing crowds. These are some of my favorites. Some are more traditional and some are more current, but all are great additions to home libraries.

This isn't a complete list, by the way. What are your favorite entertaining cookbooks?

[Photo by Nicole Weston]

Filed Under: Garden Party, How To
Tags: books, cookbook, cookbooks, cooking, donna hay, entertaining, gale gand, GaleGand, garden party, host, ideas, joy of cooking, parties, recipes, williams-sonoma

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Joe Fox

4-16-2006 @12:16PM Joe Fox said... Anything by Alton Brown! His books read like a mix of science, culinary art and witty commentary by a master of language. A must have, especially since he de-mystifies some of the more intricate preparation methods.
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