Download or read book What s a Hostess to Do written by Susan Spungen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What's a Hostess to Do?, entertaining expert Susan Spungen explains everything you need to know to host a party effortlessly and with elegance. Susan shows the hostess how to make it look easy--whether the occasion is an informal brunch, a sit-down dinner, a buffet for a crowd, or an impromptu birthday celebration. It's all arranged in 313 easy-to-digest entries that take readers through every aspect of entertaining. The tips are time-saving ("Ten Great Assembled Dessets"), money-saving ("In Praise of Cheap Wine"), energy-saving ("Ten Jobs to Delegate"), and face-saving ("How to Handle Uninvited Guests"), plus there are 121 recipes to make entertaining easier than ever berfore. With helpful illustrations and full-color photographs, What's a Hostess to Do? is a stylish and instructive guide filled with expert advice from a party-throwing pro.

Download or read book King Lehr written by Elizabeth Beresford and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Symes Lehr was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret--he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated to his new bride the rules of their strange bedfellowship. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry's death, Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry's most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.

Download or read book Great Hostesses written by Brian Masters and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Professional Hostess written by Anastasia E. Suárez and published by Trade Academy . This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of hostess has great commercial and management potential that is often little noticed. The person in charge of the reception of a gastronomic establishment should not only be a great hostess, who cares and takes responsibility for the well-being of her clients, but also a good communicator and seller of the gastronomic experience as a whole. In this book we approach the profession from a broad perspective, which includes both the technical aspects and the human component behind this versatile, universal and high-impact job on the customer experience and the profitability of the premises.

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Download or read book The Good Housekeeping Hostess written by Good housekeeping and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive a time of grace and elegance with this facsimile edition of Good Housekeeping's 1904 hostess manual. With all the original illustrations, it is far more than just a charming door into the past. Thoughtful behavior has never gone out of style, and the advice on everything from organizing a formal event to celebrating a wedding anniversary to writing sympathy cards will prove useful. And, of course, no magazine equals Good Housekeeping for offering scrumptious recipes and original entertaining suggestions. Here are complete menus, seating plans, decorating ideas, and games for a wide variety of social gatherings and parties: weddings and christenings; a children's Winter Picnic to enjoy indoors; a Curiosity Tea (where guests bring a "curiosity"); a Hayseed Carnival (with wedges of apple pie, milk, doughnuts, cider, and gingerbread), and many other holiday festivities. With this guide at your side, you'll be the hostess with the mostest!

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Download or read book The Million Dollar Duchesses written by Julie Ferry and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 November 1895 Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Though the preceding months had included spurned loves, unexpected deaths, scandal and illicit affairs, the wedding was the crowning moment for the unofficial marriage brokers, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, the original buccaneers who had instructed, cajoled and manipulated wealthy young heiresses into making the perfect match. Fame, money, power, prestige, perhaps even love – these were some of the reasons for the marriages that took place between wealthy American heiresses and the English aristocracy in 1895. For a few, the marriages were happy but for many others, the matches brought loneliness, infidelity, bankruptcy and divorce. Focusing on a single year, The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau tells the story of a group of wealthy American heiresses seeking to marry into the English aristocracy. From the beautiful and eligible debutante Consuelo Vanderbilt, in love with a dashing older man but thwarted by her controlling mother, Washington society heiress Mary Leiter who married the pompous Lord Curzon and became the Vicereine of India, Maud Burke, vivacious San Francisco belle with a questionable background, this book uncovers their stories. Also revealed is the hidden role played Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, two unofficial marriage brokers who taught the heiresses how to use every social trick in the book to land their dream husband. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau dashes through the year to uncover the seasons, the parties, the money, the glamour, the gossip, the scandal and the titles, always with one eye on the two women who made it all possible.

Download or read book The Lazy Hostess written by Babe Scott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to become a cocktail party siren and take your social life by storm! Bon vivant Babe Scott – otherwise known as The Lazy Hostess – wants to introduce all you domestically challenged divas to the world of no-fuss, come-hither hospitality. She will show you how to seamlessly throw together stress-free soirées that your friends will be chattering about for years! With her tongue firmly in her cheek, Babe lays out on a platter everything you need to know to entertain like a queen without emptying your wallet, including: Recipes for easy-to-shake signature cocktails Decadent hors d’oeuvres that are devilishly simple to make Hundreds of tips, from how to spruce up your abode to preparing for an after-party guest who might stay the night You will even find out how to get rid of those lingering guests who have overstayed their welcome. In fact, the only thing this book doesn't do is the washing up!

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Download or read book Unveiled written by Cherry Mosteshar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractive, educated in Oxford, and a respected journalist, Cherry Mosteshar wanted to return to the homeland she knew as a child. Filled with ideals, she hoped to help the fundamentalist-ruled nation to enter the 20th century. Instead, she ended up a virtual slave in a nation where a woman constantly experiences fear and degradation--and is legally worth only half a man. This is her true story. Martin's Press.

Download or read book The Crime Club written by W. Holt-White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The crime club" by W. Holt White is a book describe by the author's crime writing strengths to deliver a gripping blend of realistic procedural elements and character-driven, emotional suspense. It is a thrilling story perfect for your fall to-read list.

Download or read book Mr Darcy Vampyre written by Amanda Grange and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourcebooks Landmark, the leading publisher of Jane Austen-related fiction, is excited to announce a major release: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by international bestselling author Amanda Grange. Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary, gives us something completely new—a delightfully thrilling, paranormal Pride and Prejudice sequel, full of danger, darkness and deep romantic love… Amanda Grange's style and wit bring readers back to Jane Austen's timeless storytelling, but always from a very unique and unusual perspective, and now Grange is back with an exciting and completely new take on Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre starts where Pride and Prejudice ends and introduces a dark family curse so perfectly that the result is a delightfully thrilling, spine-chilling, breathtaking read. A dark, poignant and visionary continuation of Austen's beloved story, this tale is full of danger, darkness and immortal love.

Download or read book Nancy The Story of Lady Astor written by Adrian Fort and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the social activist and first female member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons includes coverage of her American ancestry, her determination to use her influence to introduce American ideas into British politics and her relationships with such figures as Winston Churchill, FDR and J. M. Barrie.

Download or read book Sacred to Female Patriotism written by Judith Lewis S and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sou

Download or read book The Winter Journey written by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1851 the fortunes of the Morland family are more buoyant than they have been for years. Morland Place is recovering under Benjamin's steady hands - happy at last with Sibella. Charlotte, now Duchess of Southport, is shortly to give birth to hersecond child and on the point of opening her modern hospital for the poor. Cavendish's engagement to the ethereally beautiful but slightly silly Miss Phipps causes a stir in the drawing rooms of Mayfair and his wedding causes his family some misgivings. Then the storms in Europe spill in to Britain when the army is forced to defend Turkey against the Tsar. Within weeks Cavendish is in the Crimea and disappears in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Another moving and beautifully portrayed episode in the riveting Morland saga.