Entertaining and Celebrating: An Elegant Feast For Every Season

by Kristal Damron

Overview

Simple yet exquisite. Entertaining and Celebrating: An Elegant Feast for Every Season helps you create extraordinary dining experiences, anytime, in ways that suit your palate, culture, and style. This new guide brings together all the inspiration a host or hostess needs to create lasting memories around food and family.

Explore how our book helps you spice up your table with unique styles and create extraordinary dining experiences, anytime of the year. This fabulous coffee table book is an inspiring guide to help you entertain and get pass option paralysis so that you can create a wonderful experience with your community. Our books also make for an awesome, thoughtful gift to a friend, a family member or to your favorite customers.

A visual extravaganza, this coffee table treasure features monthly themes highlighting each season's bounty. Each month is designed to spark your own creativity, with stylish table settings, four-course menus with cocktail and wine pairings, and suggested ways to serve that will wow your guests. With this book, I hope to inspire a love of elegant dining in others.

Entertaining and Celebrating: An Elegant Feast for Every Season helps us recapture dining elegance to create unique and lasting memories with loved ones throughout the year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732231306
Publisher:	Reward Your Appetite Catering
Publication date:	06/14/2019
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Kristal Damron owns Reward Your Appetite Catering, a fine dining catering company offering exquisite cuisine with exemplary service. Kristal's catering career was borne of a desire to spend more time cherishing others through her joy of food and elegant style. With business acumen she developed over 20 years in corporate finance, Kristal charted a course for success that included graduating with honors from the Arizona Culinary Institute in Scottsdale, and publishing a book to inspire elegant entertaining throughout the year. In addition to her culinary training, Kristal holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, Jared, and their two daughters, Arianna Victoria and Alexandria Isabella. She and her family enjoy traveling, visiting parks and museums, and spending time with family and friends.

Table of Contents

Contents

Mommyhood, Catering, Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Recapturing Elegance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Spring

March: Easter Brunch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

April: Springtime Brunch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

May: Mother’s Day Brunch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Summer

June: Romantic Dinner at the Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

July: Fourth of July Lunch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

August: Picnic in the Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Fall

September: Labor Day Cocktail Hour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

October: Fall Harvest Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

November: Thanksgiving Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Winter

December: Christmas Day Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

January: New Year’s Day Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 38

February: Sunday Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Your Cheerleaders: Keep Them Close. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Appendix

Lenox China Highlighted in the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Appendix

Wine Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48