- Around the Table
- Easy Menus for Cozy Entertaining at Home
- By Ellen Wright
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The best entertaining isn’t about impressing people. It’s about welcoming them to a comfortable setting, entertaining them with lively conversation and simple memorable food, and making them feel at home. In Around the Table, accomplished hostess Ellen Wright offers 24 seasonal menus, accompanied by gorgeous full-color photographs, for easy, off-the-cuff but still stylish entertaining for family and friends. Menus include It’s Payback Time, for when you’ve enjoyed friends’ hospitality too often without reciprocating, with Parmesan Toasts, Tomato Onion Soup, Mustard–Brown Sugar Glazed Pork Loin, Baked Onions, and Pound Cake with Berries; Freezing Cold Winter Night, a get-together over steaming bowls of Brisket and Cabbage Soup, Piroshkies, and Warm Apple Crisp; and Let’s Stoke Up that Fire, a cookout with grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb, Creamed Spinach, Peach Tomato Salad with Mint, and Blond Brownies. Ellen’s philosophy is to keep it simple, fun, and delicious. The menus highlight easy preparation and do-ahead tips and shortcuts to get the host out of the kitchen and into the conversation.
Book Details
- Hardcover, $27.95
ISBN 978-1-55832-252-3
- Total Pages: 240 pg.
- Trim Size: 8 x 9
- Interior Design:
4 Color with Photographs
From the Press Room
Praise
“Ellen Wright’s Around the Table is a recipe for fun. It’s packed with delicious menus that are easy to prepare and everyone will enjoy!”
—Colin Cowie, party planner, TV host, and author of Dinner After Dark and Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie
“Homey, doable, accessible and delicious, there’s not a recipe in this collection you won’t want to make. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ellen Wright’s new cookbook becomes an everyday favorite!”
—Sally Sampson, author of Party Nuts! and The Olives Cookbook
“Around the Table is the next best thing to sitting down in Ellen Wright’s kitchen and sharing one of her home-cooked meals. She gives us a masterful guide to cooking, entertaining, and the comforts of home.”
—Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC Nightly News
“We love Ellen’s recipes because they are the essence of simple elegance. A good example is her Oklahoma Chili, which warms our Texan hearts.”
—Dan Rather, former anchor of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather