Wild Women Throw a Party. Lynette Rohrer Shirk

Wild Women Throw a Party

What People Are Saying About Wild Women Throw a Party!

Lynette Shirk's recipes rival any four-star restaurant—she is a true goddess in the kitchen and has concocted a guide to throwing the coolest parties ever!

— Margie Lapanja, author of Romancing the Stove and Food Men Love

Take one part great food and mix with two parts Silver Screen Sirens and what do you get? Wild Women Throw a Party, the best party book in the entire world!

—Tim Wright, author of Raging Beauties

Here's another way to be a wild woman: eat like one! Politicos can sip soup with Eleanor Roosevelt. Literary ladies, born too late to sit at the Algonquin Round Table? You can still share wine and cheese with Edna St. Vincent Millay or have cocktails with Dorothy Parker (but don't drink too much!). Or lace up those ballet shoes, dance on the table with Zelda Fitzgerald, but don't knock over the Waldorf salad. Lynette Rohrer Shirk supplies the recipes, you throw the party.

—Trina Robbins, author of Wild Irish Roses and Tender Murderers

“Once, I was at a party Lynette was throwing and found myself in a hot tub with a rock band. But, all I could think about was the platter of Pigs in a Blanket she was serving. That is how great her recipes are!”

—Varla Ventura, author of Wild Women Talk About Love and Sheroes

Wild Women Throw a Party

110 Original Recipes and Amazing Menus for Birthday Bashes, Power Showers, Poker Soirees, and Celebrations Galore

Lynette Rohrer Shirk

Foreword by Ame Mahler Beanland

Conari Press

For Zelda

First published in 2007 by Conari Press,

an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

With offices at:

500 Third Street, Suite 230

San Francisco, CA 94107

www.redwheelweiser.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN-10: 1-57324-284-5

ISBN-13: 978-1-57324-284-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shirk, Lynette Rohrer.

Wild women throw a party : 110 original recipes and amazing menus for birthday bashes, power showers, poker soirees, and celebrations galore/Lynette Rohrer Shirk.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-57324-284-5 (alk. paper)

1. Entertaining. 2. Menus. 3. Parties. I. Title.

TX731.S4543 2007

642'.4—dc22

2006034322

Cover and interior design by Maija Tollefson.

Cover and interior photographs © Corbis Images.

Printed in Canada

TCP

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992 (R1997).

Contents

Foreword

In the Beginning, There Were Wild Women

1. PARTY GIRLS

Peggy Guggenheim's Art Gallery Opening

Marjorie Merriweather Post's Palm Beach Party

Zelda Fitzgerald's Hotel Room Fete

Doris Duke's Surf Party

Nora Charles's New Year's Eve

2. HOLLYWOOD HOSTESSES

Sophia Loren's Pajama Party

Joan Crawford's Mother's Day