Wild Women Throw a Party : 110 Original Recipes and Amazing Menus for Birthday Bashes, Power Showers, Poker Soirees, and Celebrations Galore

by Shirk, Lynette Rohrer

• ISBN13: 9781573242844
• ISBN10: 1573242845
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Summary

Get ready, Rachael Ray! The good time gals who inspired the parties featured in this little book can show you a thing or two about throwing a smashing bash. Icons and iconoclasts, no one knows how to party like a Wild Woman. They can bring home the bacon, fry it up, and entertain you all at the same time. Part how-to, part history, and 100% hilarious, Wild Women Throw a Party is the glamour gourmet's guide to really good times.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vi
In the Beginning, There Were Wild Women	p. viii
Party Girls
Peggy Guggenheim's Art Gallery Opening	p. 2
Marjorie Merriweather Post's Palm Beach Party	p. 12
Zelda Fitzgerald's Hotel Room Fete	p. 19
Doris Duke's Surf Party	p. 27
Nora Charles's New Year's Eve	p. 35
Hollywood Hostesses
Sophia Loren's Pajama Party	p. 44
Joan Crawford's Mother's Day	p. 53
Mary Pickford's Picnic at Pickfair	p. 64
Sex and the City Happy Hour	p. 73
Silver Screen Queens' Oscar Party	p. 80
Literary Ladies
Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry Reading	p. 92
Dorothy Parker's Cocktail Party	p. 102
M.F.K. Fisher's Fireside Feast	p. 111
The Bacchae Halloween Party	p. 119
Bridget's Jonesing for Chocolate Soiree	p. 127
Entertaining Dames
A Florodora Girl's After-Hours Dinner Party	p. 140
Annie Oakley's Western Barbecue	p. 149
Ellen DeGeneres's Mardi Gras Dessert Party	p. 157
Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Shindig Comfort Food	p. 165
Political Partiers
Women of the Senate Poker Party	p. 174
First Ladies' Ice Cream Social	p. 182
Eleanor Roosevelt's Soup Night	p. 191
First Daughters' Pool Party	p. 198
Acknowledgments	p. 208
Recipe Index	p. 210
Bibliography	p. 212
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