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Carole Peck, celebrated chef and restaurateur, offers menus and more than 175 recipes for creating fresh and elegantly-simple buffets, perfect for today's fast-paced lifestyles. Lively, creative, and visually striking, buffet parties are the ultimate in versatility from brunch and barbecues, to hors d'oeuvres, late-night suppers, holiday dinners, and even weddings.
The book is filled with practical advice about every detail of buffet entertaining, and includes advance- preparation tips throughout. Stunning photographs showcase inspired ideas for buffet table designs and locations: an all-through-the-house party in a charming farmhouse; a picnic buffet in a flower garden; or a glittering champagne dinner in a formal dining room. Whatever the occasion or season, from a soup buffet for 10 to a wedding luncheon for 50, a buffet is the perfect choice for the way we live now.
Carole Peck is the owner of the Good News Cafe in northwest Connecticut. She is in demand as a caterer, guest chef, and cooking teacher.
Carolyn Hart Bryant is a 25-year publishing veteran who has worked with many cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs on award-winning books.
Definition: Buffet -the word buffet was borrowed from French at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and thus the North American pronunciation, buff-ay, is closer to the original French source than the British pronunciation buff-it (with the stress on the first syllable). Originally, the word referred to a dining-room sideboard where china is displayed, a meaning it retains to this day. However, buffet also came to mean, around the beginning of this century, the actual food laid out on such a side- board as guests walked by to fill their plates. The origin of the word buffet is unknown, but many ingenious explanations have been proposed: one suggestion is that the article of furniture took its name from the blow or buffet, pronounced buffit, that a host would inflict on the sideboard in order to fold out its hinged surface. It is probably mere coincidence, though, that the buffet meaning sideboard is spelt the same as the buffet meaning blow.
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