By Marian Burros and Lois Levine (1970)
[FROM THE PUBLISHERS] AT last the harried hostess can relax and enjoy her own parties! Whether informal or elegant, offbeat or conservative, here's a captivating cookbook-guide to entertaining at its effortless best. Come for Cocktails Stay for Supper -- "We're feeding you more than peanuts and popcorn, cold salty ham, and rubbery turkey."
Breezy, easy, and imaginative, this unique cookbook offers a spectrum of international recipes and a gold mine of new ideas for America's most popular evening entertainment, the cocktail-buffet. Culinary wizards Marian Burros and Lois Levine have concocted a party-giver's almanac, offering everything from the ABC's of drink-mixing to the XYZ's of cocktail-buffet cookery, including an extensive list of menus arranged according to size, style, and season of party and tips on how to anticipate food and drink quantities.
Here's an elegant, summer menu with knives and forks:
Mushroom Lenape
Bouchées of Roquefort
Pineapple Prosciutto
Beef in Aspic
Spanish Peas
Pine Nut Bulgur
Herb Pinwheels
Miracle Meringue Torte
VINTAGE HARDCOVER -- GOOD CONDITION -- DUSTCOVER IN FAIR CONDITION WITH SOME TEARS AND PIECES MISSING.