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Weekends Away Without Leaving Home

Set the scene for armchair adventures with food, drink, and entertainment suggestions—and enjoy virtual vacations to destinations around the world.

With a tiny bit of ingenuity and effort, anyone can create a wonderful weekend at home that brings almost as much pleasure as an actual vacation away—without the hassle of flights, foreign currency exchange, or large credit card bills. This entertaining and instructive book features guides to experiencing all the excitement of Brazil, Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, Paris, Tuscany, Greece, Morocco, Africa, St. Petersburg, India, China, Thailand, Japan, and Australia—all without leaving the comfort of home. Each chapter offers:suggestions on setting the scenebooks, videos, and music for your weekenda complete meal suggestion, with recipes

Part cookbook, part cultural guidebook, this unique volume is also ideal for planning themed dinner parties—and opens up new worlds even when you can’t hop on a plane.

Lara Morris Starr

Nina Lesowitz has over fifteen years experience orchestrating parties for corporations and organizations throughout northern California. She has planned special events on behalf of hotels, restaurants, medical centers, architectural firms, book publishing companies, and nonprofit organizations. Lara Morris Starr, a marketing and publicity professional, has been instrumental in the planning of dozens of highprofile parties. Some of her parties include the press conference and reception for Michael Jordan's bestselling book Rare Air, the publication party for A Day in the Life of Hollywood, a Beverly Hills hoedown for Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys, and a Napa Valley cocktail party for Savoring the Wine Country.

Conari Press