The Entertaining Light: Healthy Book

Imagine orchestrating an elaborate sit-down dinner fgor twenty-five, serving an elegant, unforgettable, and genuinely healthy meal and enjoying the whole thing as much as your guests do. Now, in Entertaining Light, Martha Rose Shulman, award-winning author of Mediterranean Light, shows you how to make any get-together the kind of pleasurable, palate-pleasing experience you'll want to repeat again and again.

With the know-how gleaned from years as a professional caterer and hostess, Ms. Schulman offers invaluable guidelines for composing a menu and getting organized - the two keys to easy and successful entertaining. And whether you prefer large cocktail parties, intimate dinners for two, festive holiday buffets, or last-minute unformal suppers, she provides more than three hundred low-fat, low-calorie recipes for dishes that are sumptuous, deeply satisfying, and always brimming with authentic flavor.

Light food, light work, and light on the pocketbook -- that's the recipe for healthy eating and great entertaining in this follow-up to the impressive Mediterranean Light. Shulman offers menus for every occasion, from intimate dinners to large cocktail parties. Includes 300 recipes, with nutritional breakdown.