At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at the Real Downton Abbey

At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at the Real Downton Abbey

Written by the current lady of the manor, this book gives complete access to the world-renowned historic country house and showcases the art of entertaining, past and present. Highclere Castle, famed as the setting for Downton Abbey, is the epitome of how we imagine the perfect English country house. Long the Carnarvon famiÂlyâ€™s ancestral country seat, Highclere has welcomed royalty, statesmen, and notables from the worlds of business, academia, and the arts for shooting parties, elegant fÃªtes, and celebrations in the grand style.

Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the current chatelaine, invites readers inside Highclere, past and present, as she describes how to entertain in the style of a stately English country house: the etiquette of the inviÂtation, multi-course meals, correct seating arrangeÂments, proper attire, setting the table. She delves into family archives to highlight four real-life historic weekend parties over a seventy-year period during which Highclere hosted an ever-changing cast of notable figuresâ€”including Benjamin Disraeli and the Prince of Walesâ€”exploring how society and enterÂtaining changed decade by decade. Complete with gorgeous full-color photography of Highclereâ€™s rooms and punctuated by charming archival images, the book explores changing menus, fashionable cocktails of the day, and includes, where practical, adaptations for recipes which can be used for entertaining in the present day.
Country USA
Brand Rizzoli
Manufacturer Rizzoli
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber -9780847860975
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-06-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780847860975

Country	USA
Brand	Rizzoli
Manufacturer	Rizzoli
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	-9780847860975
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-06-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780847860975