Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining

Jane Kormans Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining is a personal story that combines the world of cooking and dining with the world of art, craft, and design. It features what the author consider to be her most interesting and imaginative ideas for settings tables, using her personal collections of contemporary handmade dinnerware. It also feature menus and recipes that are particular to the four season and the way she and her husband, Leonard, love to entertain. Splendid Settings is presented in four sections that are based on seasonal entertaining at the Kormans homes. It illustrates how the author s uncomplicated and easy-to-prepare recipes drawn from her own kitchens and those from family and friends in combination with her collection of contemporary crafts enhance the total presentation and dining experience at the table. Over 200 color photographs. Includes the crafts of 79 artists and designers and 16 menus and 69 recipes.