Featured
Summer Solstice
Sugar Editorial Picks
Come Party With Me: Summer Solstice — The Look
The color scheme of any party should coincide with the invitation. For a Summer solstice dinner, choose colors that are bright and fresh, like sunny yellow and herb green.
If you don't have an outdoor table, move one outside to your patio or deck.
Come Party With Me: Summer Solstice — Drinks
Besides icy-cold beer and white wine at all of my dinner parties, I like to offer guests one refreshingly potent cocktail. Serving guests a drink right after they've walked through the door gives them something to do, puts them at ease, and sets the party mood. For a solstice dinner, select a cocktail that is quintessentially Summer.
Come Party With Me: Summer Solstice — Dessert
After serving the Italian style meal at your summer solstice dinner, wait at least a half an hour before offering guests dessert. Set up a decadent dessert buffet with fresh berries and store bought sorbet. Supplement the menu with one show stopping, homemade dessert.
Come Party With Me: Summer Solstice — Menu
Fresh Italian flavors inspire my Summer solstice dinner party menu. To maximize time spent with guests, all of the food can be made in advance or cooked outdoors on the grill. A buffet of salumi, flatbreads, olives, and store bought spreads will await my guests.
Come Party With Me: Summer Solstice — Invite
The longest day of the year, June 21, is this Saturday. To celebrate the official arrival of Summer, I'm hosting a Summer-themed dinner party. All this week, I'll provide the details to my outdoor extravaganza, so take my ideas and make them your own.
Top 10 Reasons To Have A Party This Summer
Today is the first official day of summer, also known as the summer solstice, the day with the longest amount of sunlight in the year. Now that summer is finally here, I suggest that each and every one of you host a party at least once (I'm hosting several!) this summer. There is often the unfortunate misconception that in order to throw a party, one must have a special occasion.
What's Yummy This Week — YumSugar Weekly Recap
- We went to the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen! Don't miss a morsel of our coverage.
- Explore the food at the Best New Chefs party, then go behind the bash.
- Hungry for some food porn? Take a tour of the Aspen tasting tent.
- Cooking with Tom and Padma taught us that celebrity chefs are just like us!
- PartySugar put her chorizo to work in a crostini appetizer.
- I made a zesty, zippy lemon poppyseed cake.
- Mix up a pear sazerac for a surprising Summer cocktail.
- Get even more cocktail ideas, plus dishes and decor, for a Summer solstice celebration.
- Tell us: Would you eat bone marrow?
- Catch up on what's happening in Hell's Kitchen.
Noteworthy Nibbles — June 19 to 25, 2008
This Saturday is the Summer solstice, and if you're looking for a way to enjoy the longest day of the year, there are still oodles of food festivals happening all over the country. Strawberry season is in full force, peaches are popping up in Alabama, and a massive barbecue competition is going down in our nation's capital. Take a look at some of the best fests happening in the next week.
Do You Know What's Cooking This Week?
It was a very exciting week on YumSugar, with the Top Chef reunion, a Summer solstice party, and all of our coverage from the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen. Did you catch all of the yummy goodness? Find out now by taking our weekly quiz!
More on YumSugar
Fall Award Season
Top Brands
Dessous
Nike
Dries Van Noten