Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie: Menus, Tips, Strategies, and More Than 200 Recipes. Este artículo no está disponible.Effortless Elegance With Colin Cowie: Menus, Tips, Strategies, and More Than 200 Recipes

Beginning with "A Lazy Sunday Brunch" and ending with "Dinner in Front of the Fire," Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie provides complete menus for all seasons and any occasion, from "An Elegant Cocktail Party" to "A Perfect Picnic." A sampling of the delicious recipes and menus includes: "A Casual Breakfast" with fresh grapefruit juice, fried apples and stewed prunes, almond pancakes, scrambled eggs with yogurt and chives, and chicken and fennel sausage; "A Rustic Luncheon" with a terrine of eggplant and roasted peppers with arugula sauce, seafood paella, and lemon sorbet with marinated grapefruit; and "A Cape Malay Barbecue" featuring curried lamb kabobs with mango chutney, basmati rice with toasted cashews, raisins, and sultanas, a bulgur mint salad, and baked bananas with rum-spiked creme fraiche.
The recipes are designed to be prepared with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of aesthetic impact, freeing the partygiver from the kitchen and allowing him or her to enjoy the essence of the perfect party - a close and companionable evening with good friends.
Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie is a gorgeously illustrated treasury with more than 250 full-color photographs, 200 recipes organized into 28 full menus, and an abundance of effective strategies for making all of your parties, both large and small, sensational events to remember.

Colin Cowie writes a monthly feature for In Style magazine and is the founder of Colin Cowie Lifestyle, an event planning, catering, design, and production company in Los Angeles.