Great food for every kind of get-together. Gone are the days of formal dinner parties. Now entertaining is much more casual - it might be a picnic breakfast at the beach, or a group of friends watching a DVD on a Saturday night. Every occassion is catered for here - girls' lunches, tea parties, cocktail parties, kids' birthday parties, romantic dinners. As well as fabulous recipes, there's lots of information on how to plan a party, how much food to provide, what to do in advance and how to make it all go smoothly. These days we're time-poor but we love our food and we love our friends. This timely book shows us how we can entertain with style and grace.

Author Biography

Bauer Books are experts at producing beautiful, easy-to-use cookbooks that have delicious recipes and sumptuous photographs. The Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks are renowned for their reliability as each recipe is Triple Tested for success in the famous AWW Test Kitchen. They will work every time in every home kitchen. From the magazine brand which engenders huge trust and confidence amongst its 2.2 million readers, The Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks are prepared and presented with the same high level of expertise and attention to detail. The cookbooks focus on everything from fast and healthy family meal ideas to spectacular food for entertaining. These highly desirable cookbooks make perfect gifts.