Shows how to use lighting, color, texture, progression, and scale to develop creative designs for a wide variety of parties

The Art of the Party: Design Ideas for Successful Entertaining

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Louie, Elaine

Reynolds, Renny

Cooking Methods

Avery

A cross-country tour of eighty American microbreweries reviews more than four hundred bottled beers for color, aroma, and taste while providing point-of-interest information for each variety. Original.

Premier Beer: A Guide To America'S Best Bottled Microbrews

Beverages & Wine

Pocket

Just as New England served as the cradle of so much of American history, so, too, has the architecture of New England come to define the American idea of home. From the colonial farmhouse in the Rhode Island countryside to the shingle-style beach cottage on Martha's Vineyard or the simple saltbox on a village square in Massachusetts, New England has evolved a distinctive residential tradition that is quintessentially American. With purity, simplicity, and a respect for the past as its hallmarks, the style we associate with New England has again come to the forefront. Celebrating houses and interiors from Maine to Connecticut, Living in New England shows us the old and delights us with the new by introducing us to some of the area's most inventive and elegant interiors. Despite the rich traditions of the region, the houses showcased in this book do not rest on their laurels. Instead, their owners -- writers, artists, designers, publishers -- have created rooms that are informed by the regional vernacular but are freewheeling and up-to-date. New York Times columnist Elaine Louie has worked in close collaboration with the gifted photographer Sølvi dos Santos to locate some of the most beautiful, inventive, and memorable interiors throughout New England. And so this marvelous book gives us an exclusive tour of the Maine island where artist Jamie Wyeth lives and paints during the summer months, a compound that includes an antiques-filled home, a studio, and a live-in lighthouse at the mouth of the Penobscot Bay. We visit the Newport home of a grand family, its stunning interiors originally created in the nineteenth century in collaboration with Edith Wharton. We find a converted barn with a drop-dead view of the sea on Martha's Vineyard. And we stroll through the gardens created by interior designer Bunny Williams at her colonial farmhouse in northern Connecticut. Finally, this beautifully designed book closes with a location guide that allows us to explore the villages, towns, and countryside of New England.

Living In New England

Arts & Photography

Dos Santos, Solvi

Architecture

Simon&Schuster

“This outstanding volume proves that vegetables can steal the show.” —Publishers Weekly “Lovers of good food have enjoyed Elaine Louie’s column, ‘The Temporary Vegetarian,’ for the chef-created recipes and omnivore-approved dishes. Now all the recipes are in one place, making this book a valuable asset for any cook, regardless of diet style.” —Robin Asbell, author of New Vegetarian In The Occasional Vegetarian, Elaine Louie provides pieces from her popular New York Times column, “The Temporary Vegetarian,” which features recipes from a wide variety of chefs who reveal the vegetarian dishes they like to cook at their restaurants and at home. You’ll find a recipe for cranberry bean and kale soup from one chef’s mother; an almond grape “white” gazpacho recipe brought back from Catalonia, Spain; and an endive cheese tart inspired by a Frenchwoman who one cook and his wife met aboard a train. Other tempting recipes include Catalan-Style Radicchio and White Beans; Persian Herb Frittata; Corn Fritters; Chana Punjabi (Chickpea Stew); Leek Tart with Oil-Cured Olives; Fragrant Mushroom Spring Rolls, Wrapped in Lettuce Cups; and Sugar Snap Pea Salad. Louie proves that cooking meat-free is not only easy, but also incredibly tasty and satisfying.

The Occasional Vegetarian: 100 Delicious Dishes That Put Vegetables at the Center of the Plate

Cooking by Ingredient

Hyperion

Bring a room to life by creating drama with your treasured collections Specific ideas on how to decorate with collected objects Includes avice on how to start a collection Collecting is a passion, but knowing what treasures to seek out and how best to display them is a skill that's easily learned in this House Beautiful volume. Whether you like to go antiquing, browsing the flea markets, or buying items from various trips, these lavishly illustrated pages will not only enhance your pleasure in collecting, but also give you great advice and inspiration.

House Beautiful Collections on Display: Decorating with Your Favorite Objects

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

The Editors of House Beautiful Magazine

Antiques & Collectibles

Hearst

Treasured collections deserve special treatment, and House Beautiful reveals just how to create breathtaking displays that beautifully feature your favorite things. Inspirational and practical, these color photographs present an array of fabulous ideas for showcasing ceramics, glassware, photographs, summer hats, books, African masks, folk art, and toys. There’s advice on how to edit collections and create themed arrangements; where in the home to place your treasures; how to exhibit them to best effect; and how to make focal points in any room. Turn walls into effective backdrops; assemble favored items on tabletops in small “treasure islands”; make good use of both mantelpieces and glass display cabinets. With House Beautiful’s expert hints, any piece will make maximum impact.

Decorating with Your Favorite Objects

Crafts & Hobbies

Chinese silks, Egyptian linens, Afghan rugs: every culture recognizes the sensuality and functionality of textiles. Yet, too often their striking contribution to the modern interior is overlooked. Over 140 eye-opening color photos reveal what a wonderful difference they make, draping the walls, covering a bed, upholstering the furniture, warming the floors, softening the lines. Display a small hooked rug as a piece of art, or turn an obi (a kimono sash) into the perfect table runner--you're limited only by your imagination. Every page features a new application for textiles in the home, from hangings to room dividers, as well as information on particular fashions and period effects, including Indian, Japanese, African, French, and English Formal. It's inspiration and information for bringing unique style to your environment.

Living with Textiles

Beazley, Mitchell

Home Improvement & Design

Miller/Mitchell Beazley

It’s easy to find a great meal in London, and–with the exchange rate and soaring prices–easier yet to find a meal that is ruinously expensive. But what fun is that? Enter Elaine Louie, a New York Times staffer who writes on food, design, and style. What better person to suss out the spots where the most stylish of Londoners dine while staying solvent? Tracking down leads from architects, curators, designers, and other sources with discriminating taste and exacting palates, Louie profiles fifty venues that would be considered great finds at any price and where a meal (not counting tip and beverage) can be enjoyed for less than $25. The restaurants range across ethnicities, and include a substantial number of traditional British and Continental restaurants. They deliver on decor (cool, charming, and/or beautiful) and the food (not necessarily three-course meals, but sometimes more modern, light dining) is always memorable. Follow the leads of fashionable epicures to: • Baker &amp; Spice, a chic spot favored by the impeccably dressed “yummy mummies,” young mothers who savor the best quiches in London and golden-crusted meat pies filled with baby veggies fresh from the British countryside• the “darling and simple café” atop four floors of fashion in the hip Dover Street Market, centrally located near Bond Street• Crazie Homies in hip Westbourne Grove, where the food is inspired by street vendors and taquerias found throughout Mexico and is freshly made from authentic recipes–try the potent yet refreshingly smoky margaritas• Jin Kichi, the tiny Hampsted eatery, bedecked with red paper lanterns, where the delectable fare means the place is usually filled with Japanese expats The venues are located in city-central locations and hip neighborhoods and a few of the best are even tucked away in museums and department stores, making this a highly practical guide for travelers who need to plan their time efficiently. In addition to the fifty restaurants with full profiles, the author has included short descriptions of another two dozen places worth visiting.

Savoir Fare London: Stylish and Affordable Dining (Savoir Fare Guides)

Travel

Europe

Little Bookroom

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