Festive Occasions is part a of two-book series called The Williams-Sonoma Entertaining Series. These beautiful books are packed with creative ideas and advice to help you plan a great party. The 15 complete menus presented in each volume include more than 85 recipes, plus wine recommendations, decorating hints, and practical advice for organizing and hosting the perfect party. With beautiful photographs and delicious recipes, everything is here to make any get-together an unqualified success.
Not the cover I have - and my version lists Joyce Goldstein as a co-author. From the Williams-Sonoma Entertaining series.
A pretty book, organized around menus designed for entertaining groups of various sizes. Some good tips on entertaining, and lovely, coffee-table sized images, but I find these sorts of books of nominal use. I rarely entertain on a scale of 12 or 24 - or 2, for that matter - so having set and established recipes that are likely to suit all the tastes and restrictions of those sorts of numbers of guests is more fanciful than reality.