Title: Wild women throw a party : 110 original recipes and amazing menus for birthday bashes, power showers, poker soirees, and celebrations galore /
Authors: Shirk, Lynette Rohrer.
Publisher: Conari,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Entertaining.; Menus.; Parties.
Contents: In the beginning, there were wild women -- Party girls. Peggy Guggenheim's art gallery opening -- Marjorie Merriweather Post's Palm Beach party -- Zelda Fitzgerald's hotel room fete -- Doris Duke's surf party -- Nora Charles' New Year's Eve -- Hollywood hostesses. Sophia Loren's pajama party -- Joan Crawford's Mother's Day -- Mary Pickford's picnic at Pickfair -- Sex and the City happy hour -- Silver screen queen's Oscar party -- Literary ladies. Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry reading -- Dorothy Parker's cocktail party -- M.F.K. Fisher's fireside feast -- The Bacchae Halloween party -- Bridget's jonsesing for chocolate soiree -- Entertaining dames. A Floradora girl's after-hours dinner party -- Annie Oakley's Western barbecue -- Ellen DeGeneres's Mardi Gras dessert party -- Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain shindig comfort food -- Political Partiers. Women of the Senate poker party -- First Ladies' ice cream social -- Eleanor Roosevelt's soup night -- First Daughters' pool party.