Learn to COOK - Serendipity Parties: Pleasantly Unexpected Ideas for Entertaining
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Manufacturer: Universe
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 642.4
EAN: 9780789316943
ISBN: 0789316943
Label: Universe
Manufacturer: Universe
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2008-05-13
Publisher: Universe
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Studio: Universe
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Everyone comes together at Serendipity—Hollywood stars, young trendsetters, and families from all over the world. With its dessert-loaded menu, fun decor, and carefree vibe, this is the place to celebrate a birthday—or any occasion that calls for lots of chocolate. Here, the impish impresario Stephen Bruce, like a modern-day Willy Wonka, has created a candy-colored wonderland where all feel welcome and even the host has a great time. Now, Serendipity Parties brings the restaurant’s madcap sense of hospitality home. Whether it’s for a birthday, the holidays, or a summer poolside soiree, this book has a party plan for you. Offbeat decor tips, must-have music playlists, and hilarious anecdotal sidebars accompany delicious recipes that reflect Serendipity’s over-the-top style. Maybe you’d like to throw a Frozzzen Hot Chocolate shindig, where guests can customize their drinks. Or for Halloween you might host a séance, serving miniature Lemon Icebox Pies (Andy Warhol’s favorite dish from the restaurant) and Peanut Butter and Banana Crostini (in honor of Elvis). For Valentine’s, tempt guests with a big pot of chocolate fondue, complete with a selection of different dippers. Perfect for families, the book is also ideal for beginning hosts and hostesses looking to develop their own easy and exciting style of entertaining. With Serendipity Parties, you’ll always have a reason to party.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: My 2 cents
Comment: I don't often feel compelled to review products that i have purchased from Amazon because more often than not someone else has already expressed my view. In the case of this particular purchase, the previous reviewers opinion could not be further from my own.
Firstly, This book does not claim to be a book about cake decorating, if you wish to replicate or approximate the cake pictured on the cover i would advise looking at the Whimsical Bakehouse Cake Books by Liv Hansen, or Confetti Cake Books by Elisa Strauss, or any or all of Mich Turners books.
Serendipity Parties is the 3rd book published by Stephen Bruce, if you are after recipes used in the New York Establishment then it is advisable to purchase the first two in this series. This book, however does not claim to be a recipe book.
It provides ideas for 10 parties, this notion of it being a jumping off point is clearly stated on the front cover subtitle. Within each Party Section ( there is a chapter dedicated to each) you will find approximately 4 recipes, along with music suggestions, games, drinks, invitations and costumes. The 10 party themes are: Valentines Day, Academy Awards, Birthday, Tea Party (my personal favourite), Seance, Engagement, Summer Ice Cream Party, Moving, Halloween and Lastly Holidays.
This book lives up to its promise, and is fun to be used as mild escapism, or the basis for your next party
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Summary: Don't waste your pennies!
Comment: The publisher of this tome must have been having a rather bleak period where they needed to get SOMETHING into print that week. No other logical explanation is possible for the complete nonsense that is contained within this book's covers.
The old adage of "Don't judge a book by it's cover" is too true for this review - receiving my book, I had the expectation of learning how to create not only the cake on the cover, but the party that would go with it - and other "serendipitous" ideas to go with it. How sorely misguided I was.
Frankly, a 4 year old could have come up with a better party-planning guide than this. There are scant recipies, and even fewer genuine planning ideas - NO SOURCES EITHER - so when you do happen on something you may want to replicate - bad luck!
I have tried to read this book page by page at least 4 times, but each time end up frustrated that the book truely is as bad as I thought the last time I picked it up.
Do yourself a favour and don't waste your money buying this book - invest in cable TV and watch E! - there are just as many party ideas on that how as there are in this book.
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