description: It's time to pay back all those kind souls who fed you through years of graduate school, but you work full-time and you've never had two people to your studio apartment. How can you pull it off?The boss is coming to dinner -- he's on a diet and his wife is allergic to fruits and vegetables -- what in the world can you serve without risking your future?Relax. Lora Brody, who successfully has taught thousands of novices how to cook (and survive), now turns her attention to entertaining (and surviving). The Entertaining Survival Guide includes everything from planning menus, creating budgets, and drawing up guest lists to shopping, cooking, and (ugh) cleaning.This step-by-step primer tackles every imaginable entertaining problem -- what to do if you don't have enough tables, chairs, or dishes; who sits where; what to do if a guest is rude or has had too much to drink; how to figure out how much food you need; how to clean your house in record time; what to do if there's a power failure thirty minutes before your guests arrive; how to cope; and how to stay sane and relax. There's even a section on entertaining for business in and out of the home.Whether you're planning an informal get-together for six or an elegant dinner party for twelve, Lora's do-ahead survival recipes are geared to making your entertaining go as smoothly as possible. To take the guesswork out of mixing and matching recipes, she's even included menus for every occasion.
title: The Entertaining Survival Guide by Lora Brody
titlecomplete: The Entertaining Survival Guide by Lora Brody (1994-10-26)
genres: Reference, Cookbooks
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Morrow Cookbooks