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If the thought of a buffet suggests to you nothing but an endless dreary array of apple rings and cold chicken salad, this book will change your mind.For a buffet meal can be fuel for the imagination, a delight to the eye and the palate. And best of all, it lets you spend your time with your guests instead of in the kitchen. For today's hostess who enjoys entertaining friends at home and yet must do without extra help, a buffet meal is a perfect solution. This book presents entire menus for fifty different buffet parties you can give, from morning to midnight. Each includes recipes for every course from appetizers to dessert, along with cocktail and wine suggestions. Whether it be a casual family picnic or the most elegant of midnight champagne suppers, the inspiring combinations of course will make your party a memorable one for your guests. And the well-planned convenience of these courses means that your guests will have the pleasure of your company as well. For a generation whose life-style is both sophisticated and relaxed, for the hostess who wants her entertaining to be elegant but easy, FIFTY GREAT BUFFET PARTIES will be welcome indeed.