Williams-Sonoma Cooking for Friends: Fresh Ways to Entertain with Style

Publishers Information

About Williams-Sonoma Cooking for Friends: Fresh Ways to Entertain with Style

Publisher Web Link: http://www.oxmoorhouse.com/

With stylish, delicious recipes and charming, imaginative flourishes, Alison & Jamie share their entertaining know-how with a heady enthusiasm and a healthy dose of humor.

As experienced personal chefs and two of New York’s most sought-after food stylists, Alison Attenborough and Jamie Kimm have spent years planning and cooking menus for dinner parties and cocktail fêtes for a long list of clients. They’ve sought out the best purveyors at the greenmarket, finessed ingredients, and created unique touches for every dish they serve, and then stamped it all with a signature panache.

What they’ve learned along the way is that simple and seasonal are always best. They also know a thing or two about how to show their own friends a great time and still keep hosting duties light.

When these two professionals invite people over, they distill all they’ve discovered on the job into their own style: smashingly simple yet invariably special. Their parties are festive events imbued with a strong appreciation for well-made food and an infectious dash of gaiety. One way they inspire fun is by presenting a favorite recipe-a shaved salad, a plate of crostini, a granita, a Bellini-in a brand-new guise, dressing it up for the occasion, the season, or both.

Alison and Jamie’s prescription for a memorable meal is straightforward: fresh ingredients, minimal fuss, and, most important, good friends, good wine, and good conversation. They know how to make their guests feel welcome (a drink anda nibble on arrival), how to feed them well according to the season and the mood, and how to win them over with a delectable dish presented in a singular way, such as summer cherries on ice or yellowtail crudo layered with avocado and basil.

In Cooking for Friends, Alison and Jamie share their clever ideas, their love for food, and their indomitable spirit for fun with the rest of us. After flipping through these pages, it’s impossible not to start plotting the menu for your next gathering, giddy with anticipation that it may be the best dinner party you’ll have ever served.

Author Information

About Alison Attenborough

Author Web Link: http://alisonattenborough.com/

Alison Attenborough is a chef, food stylist, restaurant consultant, recipe developer and author of “Cooking for Friends” – winner of the IACP cookbook award in April 2010 for styling and photography

She has a strong flair for design as well as food, which has been a great asset on recent projects such as the style of Paulette’s website and the update of the Westin Chosun Bakery and product line in Seoul, Korea.

Based in New York, she works on a wide range of projects including: TV, film, commercials, cookbooks, and magazines. Alison is perhaps best known for her work on food and wine magazine where she has been fortunate to travel much of the globe using her prop and food styling skills.

Alison studied home economics in London and went on to cater parties for various private and corporate clients. The most interesting were traveling to large shooting parties on amazing historic estates. She also cooked at the prestigious Gidleigh Park Hotel for a year.

Her interest in food styling peaked at the tender age of 16, when she became aware of how gorgeous images of fine cuisine could be. During college and for a while after, she worked on a series of books called “The Good Cook,” published by Time Life Books. It was here she met such food luminaries as Richard Olney, Jane Grigson, and Elizabeth David. Destiny followed its course.. her fate was sealed! Alison has been engulfed in the food world ever since.

Her passion shows in the detail of her work and her numerous clients.

Cookbooks by Alison Attenborough

0

Your rating: None

My Cookbook

Williams-Sonoma Cooking for Friends: Fresh Ways to Entertain with Style

by Alison Attenborough