Nancy Astor and her niece Nancy Lancaster were two of the great hostesses of the twentieth century, entertaining at a pitch perfect level of luxury, comfort and elegance. The food they served was always delicious, and the discovery of Nancy Astor's privately bound cookbook containing the recipes from the Langhorne family house, Mirador in West Virginia, is published for the first time. Over 70 recipes that were regularly 'mixed in with' classic French and English cuisine, are an ode to the flavours of the South; that conjured up mealtimes imbued with wit and laughter, tears and tantrums,arguments and reconciliations and were the thread that held the family together.

Contains information about what every modern bride needs to know for her Scottish wedding. From engagement to honeymoon, the author comes up with practical information, unique ideas and count down lists. She urges the reader to leave nothing to chance - always a have contingency - so that by the big day the Bride knows she has done everything.

Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington's 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from work that Washington seems to have copied. The rules as Washington wrote them out are a simplified version of this text. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette. The rules offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one's superiors.

Arguably the best chef of his generation, and now a global superstar, over the course of his career Gordon Ramsay has built a restaurant empire, from Singapore to Las Vegas and from Bordeaux to Dubai. But alongside the new openings, tucked away in a quiet street in Chelsea in London is the jewel in Gordon's crown - Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. With its tiny dining room, the restaurant which Gordon opened 25 years ago has a legendary reputation and has been awarded 3 Michelin stars for the past 15 years.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay: A Story of Excellence is an exclusive look behind the scenes at one of the best restaurants in the world, and captures the constantly evolving quest for culinary perfection as Gordon and his brilliant team challenge themselves to stay ahead of the game in the ever competitive world of fine dining.

Capturing the attention to detail that goes into each dish as they balance the best seasonal ingredients and flavors, set against the rich tapestry of restaurant life the book is a fascinating insight into the magical and rare experience of eating at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay.

Afternoon tea is more than a meal--it's a moment, an aesthetic, a pose. Afternoon Tea Is the New Happy Hour features more than 75 recipes to make your tea time memorable. Inside you'll find easy-to-follow recipes to create tea sandwiches, scones, breads, cakes, dips, and, of course--tea. Whether you're throwing a vintage tea party or looking for high tea food ideas, there's something for everyone. Bestselling author Gail Greco also shares cooking and serving tea tips, tea etiquette, insight on the differences between using tea bags, a tea kettle, and loose leaves, and the lingo used by tea connoisseurs. Gail includes her own food photography which showcases the happy hour crowd pleasers. In this cookbook, you'll find: Plenty of tea time favorites, like Apple Hibiscus Tea, Tea Toddy One-Shot, Alice's Sorbet Float Tea, and Basic Barista Tea Latte with Rooibos. For appetizers Gail shares Cheddar Ranch Crab Dip, Spicey Baked Artichoke Bruschetta, Pizza Cupcakes, and Mini Soft Baked Pretzels. If you're craving sandwiches, you'll find Pimento Pita Pocket Poufs and Food Truck Zone Shrimp/Corn ' Wiches. And to keep everyone excited, you'll find Tea-Thyme Ginger Bars, Glazed Lemon Loaf Cake, Teasicles, Potato Chip Walnut Tartlets, and Puddle-of-Chocolate and Chai Pots de Creme. There's something for everyone! This beautiful cookbook will provide you with the high tea food ideas you can't find anywhere else. Afternoon Tea Is the New Happy Hour is a wildly creative mix of vintage and modern. Pinkies up, it's tea time!

Naughty Pictionary and Sex Toy Relays? It must be a CosmoBachelorette Party! Get your girls together because we're throwing your bride-to-be a night she'll never forget! Cosmo's 25 hilariously entertaining games will have you prepping for the most epic bachelorette party ever. Featuring fun (and frequently risque) activities by the #1 women's magazine in the world, this pack includes everything you never knew you needed. From phallic-inspired challenges, to classic games with a tawdry twist, to brand-new bachelorette adventures, this deck will bring you a party you'll never be able to talk about again. What happens at a bachelorette party stays at a bachelorette party, right?

After the Second World War, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties were synonymous with the nation's food for decades, even after his death in 1985. In the first biography of Beard in twenty-five years, acclaimed writer John Birdsall argues that Beard's struggles as a closeted gay man directly influenced his creation of an American cuisine. Starting in the 1920s, Beard escaped loneliness and banishment by travelling abroad to places where people ate for pleasure, not utility, and found acceptance at home by crafting an American ethos of food likewise built on passion and delight. Informed by never-before-tapped correspondence and lush with details of a golden age of home cooking, The Man Who Ate Too Much is a commanding portrait of a towering figure who still represents the best in food.

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Audrey Style" comes a charming guide to Audrey Hepburn?inspired living for the modern woman
Audrey Hepburn epitomized grace and style, not only in her appearance but in her very essence. Whether in fashion, relationships, her work on the screen, or for UNICEF and her home life, there is no one more worthy of imitation.
How did she do it? "What Would Audrey Do?" is the answer: a complete Audrey primer, with rich anecdotes and insight from the people who knew her best, and Audrey-inspired lessons in loveliness, including:
- Dating advice from the woman who enjoyed romances with John F. Kennedy, William Holden, and Albert Finney
- What made her an icon, and how to apply her style choices to twenty-first-century clothes, makeup, and accessories
- Raising children, trying to raise husbands, and making home life balanced in every way
- How to travel, what to pack, and maintaining your cool on the road
- Using renown (long before Angelina and Bono got all the press) to help others around the world
- Insight into her rich interior life and the discipline, intelligence, and generosity that made her so compelling
In an era fraught with selfishness, flamboyance, and sensational headlines, Audrey as a role model is precisely what the world needs.

Fresh, artistic and cheeky designs for a new generation of creative florists.

Bold, modern and more than a little bit cheeky, Flower Porn ditches the traditional floral bouquets for designer arrangements that you can recreate at home. Kai Kaimins, founder of East London florist My Lady Garden, shows you how to fill your home or office with eye-catching, Instagram-worthy arrangements. By following her flower recipes, you'll unlock the secrets of colour theory and get up close and personal with a huge array of blooms, season by season.

Complete with an essential chapter on floristry techniques, this book will show you how to choose the best flowers for each arrangement, and prepare each stem to make sure that your bold creations will last.

Float into the pages of this flirty flower book to explore:

• Four chapters of flower arrangements are arranged by season, with each project presented as a recipe, complete with a food-related heading
• A preliminary chapter will cover the key techniques and processes readers will need to create each flower recipe
• vivid photography and modern layouts that capture Kai's style and the My Lady Garden aesthetic.

There's nothing quite like a bouquet of flowers, and there is absolutely nothing at all like the bouquets, arrangements and stunning displays in Flower Porn to bring beauty to a room. A must-have addition to the library of every flower-arranger - whether you're discovering the art form for the first time, or already a professional florist looking for new ideas for the business, Flower Porn has something for everyone to love.

How men and women interact, the respect young show old and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. Bowing To Necessities is the chronologically most wide-ranging study, covering the long period of 1620 to 1860, of its kind. Working through two centuries of conduct literature, Professor Hemphill provides a wonderful retelling of American history to the Civil War, illuminating crucial connections between evolving class, gender, and age relations along the way.

Christmas is a time for entertaining and for the host that means hours spent planning, shopping and decorating the house. With a good guidebook in hand, the work of holiday entertaining can be one of the joys of the seasons.

Now in its second edition, The Children's Party Book has become an invaluable reference for parents and carers short on time and ideas. It contains 240 ideas for games and craft activities that will make any children's party, from 3 to 12 years, go with a swing. All the activities are clearly presented with illustrations, diagrams and step-by-step practical descriptions, and are coded for age-suitability. Special topics covered include: how to celebrate that special birthday; how to make and perform a simple theatre for young children; how to organize parties with a seasonal theme; and how to make attractive decorations.

This book presents a cross-cultural comparison between British and Japanese cultures focusing on requests and responses. The study is based on data elicited from a questionnaire which lists the choices of strategies for making requests and responding to off-record requests, taking into account the variables power, social distance and imposition. The author's findings suggest important refinements to Brown and Levinson's politeness categorisation and question the validity of cultural stereotypes. Drawing on the distinction between individualist and collectivist cultures, this study also accounts for differences between the politeness strategies in British English and Japanese.

Everything You Need to Know for Business and Travel Success

The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia

• Country to country protocols and customs
• International business musts and faux pas
• Dining, hosting, gift giving, and more
• Cross-cultural exploration

The Global Etiquette Series Did you know:

• In Indonesia, you should always present your business card with both hands?
• You might offend your Japanese hosts by refilling your own teacupat dinner–or forgetting to refill theirs?

In today’s high-stakes, highly charged international business world, you simply can’t afford a misunderstood gesture, an ill-placed word, or a misinformed judgment. The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia shows both business and leisure travelers how to understand, appreciate, and manage–as well as maximize the benefits of–the myriad cultural differences that can exist between you and your Asian business hosts.

This fact-filled cultural guidebook provides detailed advice on:

• Dining • Drinking • Speaking • Eye contact • Hailing a taxi
• Dress • Negotiating • Gift giving • Conducting a meeting
• Tipping • Holidays • Dealing with authorities

Just as customs vary greatly between Asia and the West, so do they vary among the diverse nations of Asia. What is proper and expected in Malaysia, for example, may be a deal-breaker in India. The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia will familiarize you with the customs, habits, tastes, and mores of every key Asian nation–over forty in all–and help you guarantee the mutual respect and acceptance that are vital for keeping every international business relationship agreeable, effective, and successful. Wiley’s Global Etiquette Series provides the practical information you need to travel and conduct business in foreign countries and cultures. Each easy-to-navigate reference book is filled with helpful hints, do’s and don’ts, and other rules of the road for travelers of all types.

Mulletheads unite! Grif Griffin is entirely enamored of Mugil cephalus, the striped or black mullet. "A pecan with fins, " he calls it. And he's compiled here dozens of recipes to celebrate this bullet-headed silvery delicacy.

Award-winning food critic and writer William Sitwell chronicles the fascinating global history of dining out, from the Roman wine taverns of ancient Pompeii to today's high-tech molecular gastronomy. Have you ever wondered where the first coffee shop sprung up, or when the sushi conveyor belt was invented? Unbelievably, the global history of the dining establishment has never been told--until now. Journeying 2,000 years into the past, acclaimed food critic and writer William Sitwell artfully traces the earliest origins of the widespread cultural practice of eating out, from its most basic to most sophisticated forms. Whether he's traversing the inns and taverns of Pompeii before its destruction in A.D. 79, witnessing the tumultuous emergence of fine dining during the French Revolution, or recounting the mid-twentieth-century invention of the taco machine in New York City, Sitwell's engaging prose gives readers a front-row seat to the restaurant experience across cultures and millennia. He follows the fashions that shape the way we dine, meeting the restaurateurs of today and yesterday whose establishments shaped society for good or ill. And after offering a wry history of the world through the prism of the eatery, he ponders its exciting future. Chefs, critics, restaurateurs, and foodies alike will delight in all the sweet and savory details offered up in this lively and highly absorbing romp through social and culinary history, packed with color photographs and illustrations.

With more than 10 million fans, Ned and Ariel Fulmer are known for their devotion to each other-and their love of homecooked food. From their popular online cooking challenges to their podcast and Instagram posts of last night's dinner, cooking together is a linchpin in their identity as the sweetest couple ever. Now, in The Date Night Cookbook, Ned and Ariel open up about their relationship with personal stories and favourite recipes, designed for a couple to cook together and eat together. Their unfussy style and sense of humour are reflected in meals that range from quick and easy to special occasions. Ned and Ariel are joining the likes of Chrissy Teigen and Jessie James Decker in making cooking fun. Organised by relationship stage-from single to dating to meeting the parents to long-term commitment-The Date Night Cookbook will quickly become a favourite resource for every couple.