Outdoor Entertaining : Williams-Sonoma

From bountiful backyard barbecues to casual beach picnics, Williams-Sonoma provides a complete guide to entertaining with ease--including menus, tips for decorating, tableware, drinks, preparation shortcuts, and much more. Eating outdoors is more popular than ever, with grill sales on the increase every year and hosts always seeking new alternatives to the traditional dinner party. Equal parts cookbook, how-to manual, and idea starter, Outdoor Entertaining shows you how to make every al fresco meal into a festive success. This beautifully illustrated and practical guide incorporates sections on menu planning, scene-setting, buying quality ingredients, mixing creative cocktails, selecting the most appropriate dinnerware, and dealing with the pitfalls of dining outdoors, from bugs to inclement weather. Outdoor Entertainingincludes more than 45 delicious, deceptively easy recipes organized around 7 seasonal menus.