WWD ran a piece today about chic summer entertaining on the cheap... I loved Anthony Todd's ideas so much I wanted to include them here. 2010 may have flipped home economics on its side, but not even a financial downtown, can squash the desire to gather with friends in style. Bon Appetite!
ANTONY TODD
An Impromptu Garden Part
I just threw a last-minute dinner in Istanbul in the garden of a friend’s home.
• Over her large wooden table I ran a piece of “ready-to-go” painter’s canvas or cotton duck, and the salvage on both sides has a cool undone, natural look to it.
• There were a bunch of cool, tall bud vases in the house, and I placed seven of those along the table and cut light branches and placed them in, creating a light green canopy above the eye line. Twenty small votives at the base lit the water.
• I made pitchers of sangria (à la Capri) with inexpensive local dry white table wine. In the morning, I put cherries in the wine and cooled it in the fridge, and before guests arrived, cut white peaches and sprigs of mint.
• I bought some roasted chickens and placed them in a large tureen with pieces of pineapple, tangerine, shallots and celery, then made a sauce of sour cream, honey, garlic and lemon, with toasted almonds thrown on top.
• I served a salad alongside local cheeses and pots of spicy jam, and for dessert, vanilla ice cream and local wild berries.
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