Title:	Boards, Platters, Plates: Recipes for Entertaining, Sharing, and Snacking
	Author:	Maria Zizka
	Published:	April 27, 2021, Artisan
	No. of Pages:	160
	Cover Price:	$19.95 Hardcover, $7.19 Kindle

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Boards are the biggest trend going nowadays, so Maria Zizka’s cookbook, Boards, Platters, Plates: Recipes for Entertaining, Sharing, and Snacking is very timely. This beautiful cookbook is full of excellent ideas for presenting good food in an artistic way. It will inspire everyone to make their presentations more beautiful and appealing to their guests.

The recipes are presented in an easy-to-follow format, and there is a beautiful photograph of each board, platter, or plate so that anyone can create a beautiful display of food. This cookbook includes displays of different foods gathered from all over the world, including France, Middle East, Japan, Italy, Korea, and China, as well as America. There are appetizer boards and displays, lunch displays, full dinner displays, snack displays, and dessert displays. All of them are attractive and the food is arranged so that they are easy to eat from. The displays included will inspire most people to make some of their own.
The recipes include dipping sauces, dips, fondues, breads, and other accompaniments to make a complete presentation. The boards are both sweet and savory, and some even make complete meals. During the holidays, this cookbook will most likely be used often for holiday parties and dinners. It includes instructions for everything needed to duplicate what is in the cookbook and make substitutions that will make them personal.

Food always tastes better when it’s presented beautifully, and this book will give everyone good ideas to make their food more appealing. This is a fun book.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.