The book for the friend who hosts the year.

A year of entertaining organized by season and occasion: the long Easter lunch, the summer cocktail hour, the autumn dinner under string lights, the New Year's Eve at home. Recipes, menus, mood. The book the host who hosts a dozen real evenings a year quietly reads in the kitchen on the morning of. A wedding gift, a housewarming gift, the entertaining book the friend will mention by name months later.

For the friend who already hosts a year of dinners. For the wedding registry. For the housewarming gift for the new dining room.

Hardcover. 256 pages.