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L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants
L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants

If you need a mini vacation away from the real world, you can hardly do better than to sit back and relax with George Geary’s new book, L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants - Celebrating the Famous Places Where Hollywood Ate, Drank and Played. It's sheer indulgence in the romance and glamour of Hollywood in the golden era.

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Cookbooks, Culture, dessert, appetizer, cocktails, French, entree, party food, salad, side dish, soup, movie starsKaren Tripsoncookbook, architecture, Hollywood, celebrities restaurants, the brown derby, Chasens, Musso and Franks, Spago, Schwab's Pharmacy, Trader Vics, George Geary
Local Cheese Tray for a Party
Local Cheese Tray for a Party

A cheese tray created from local cheeses showcases the farmers in your area and anchors the buffet at a party or wine tasting.

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appetizer, cocktails, Culture, Cookbooks, Event, party food, northwest cheese, wine tastingKaren Tripsoncheese, boat street cafe pickled apricots, boat street cafe, cascadia creamery, gothberg farms, rogue creamery, kurtwood farms, farmstead cheese, macrina bakery, french baguette, apricots in the buff, panazilla crackers, Renee Erickson, cloud cap, oregon blue, dinah's cheese, chèvre, la mancha goat milk cheese
Special Menu for New Friends
Special Menu for New Friends

Entertaining is not always your dear old friends or family. How do you reciprocate when you’ve been wined and dined by people you don't know very well?

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appetizer, salad, Cookbooks, entree, Event, good reading, main entree, party food, restaurants, Seattle WA, side dish, vegetarian optionKaren Tripsondessert, David Lebovitz, My Paris Kitchen, Ottolenghi, Plenty, The Perfect Scoop, Living the Sweet Life in Paris, Entertaining, Menu planning, Daniel Boulud, Jerusalem, Woodinville Wineries