For the Table: Easy, Adaptable, Crowd-Pleasing Recipes

Anna Stockwells dishes are just the type of food I want to serve to friendsor have them serve to me. Flipping through the book, I feel as though Im at the best dinner party ever. Its one uncompromisingly chic book that Ill be turning to again and again to impress everyone I know. -- Ben Mims * cooking columnist, Los Angeles Times * Anna has an intuitive sense of how to create simple food that looks and tastes anything but. This book might just be what brings back my entertaining spark. -- Christopher Morocco * senior food editor and test kitchen director at Bon Apptit * Anna Stockwells For the Table is a cookbook actually designed for feeding a crowd, with full menus all planned out from apps to dessert and consideration for a range of dietary needs. I flagged the vibrant green-and-red spinach and ricotta dumplings in a Calabrian chile-tomato sauce to make ASAP. Its impeccably organized and delightful, just like Anna. -- Alex Beggs * Bon Apptit * In the dinner party Olympics, Anna Stockwell takes the goldand this is her training manual. Here, she shows us how to host with style, with grace, and without stress. It starts with snacks, of course (potato chips served alongside ice-cold cherries!). And it always, always finishes with dessert (very wiggly yogurt panna cotta). And in-between those two things is the core of Annas approach: a two-platter technique that gets an impressive dinner on the table, yet also allows a host to do all the other little things that make an evening matter. Like lighting candles. Or writing name cards. . . . In this way, For the Table isnt just a collection of recipesits a full-blown dinner party philosophy, a blueprint to using food as a way to connect. If we follow it, not only will our parties be stronger, our relationships will, too. -- David Tamarkin * editorial director of King Arthur Baking and author of Cook90 * Anna Stockwell is the most natural-born hostboth in real life and on the page. Her recipes sing with flavor, her table sparkles with candlelight, and wherever she is, there follows laughter and joy. For the Table is the no-nonsense guide to entertaining for everyone who wishes to have more fun and eat better while hosting family and friends. -- Sarah Copeland * author of Every Day is Saturday, Feast, and Instant Family Meals *

Anna Stockwell is a food stylist and editor who most recently was a senior food editor for Epicurious and Bon Apptit. While at Epicurious, Stockwell hosted a popular weekly Instagram story called At Home With Anna. She has also worked at Saveur and has experience cooking in the test kitchens for Every Day With Rachael Ray and Real Simple. Stockwell holds a degree in classic culinary arts from the International Culinary Center, and her video series No Recipe Required was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2017. She lives in New Yorks Hudson Valley.