Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings

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Get on Board with Food Stylist–Approved Ideas for Company-Worthy Spreads. Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings - create boards for any type of gathering. Meet Elle Simone Scott plus tips for cheese, charcuterie, crudités, and styling tricks.

Inspirational but achievable boards packed with ideas you can make or buy. A create-your-own Breakfast Taco Board ensures you're not feeling like a short-order cook when making breakfast for a crowd. Set out your toppings, scramble some eggs, and dig in with everybody else.

The Martini Board lets you stir (or shake) your version of a perfect martini (vodka or gin? olives or a twist? straight up or on the rocks?) accompanied by easy-to-throw-together snacks. Steak Frites was made to be served as a board—the fries soak up the steak's juices for a cohesive, flavor-bomb of a meal. This one is perfectly timed to ensure piping hot fries at the ready.

Bring out the kid in everyone with the Cookie Decorating board. Bake off a foolproof batch of sugar cookies, mix together a few icings, and set up stations to let your guests' creativity run wild.

Breakfast boards, Grazing boards for cocktail parties and beyond, Dinner-size boards to fill you up, Dessert boards to satisfy your sweet tooth - you'll find over 150 of ATK's foolproof recipes to build your board around or add that special homemade touch.

Meet ATK Food Stylist and Chef: Elle Simone Scott Elle Simone Scott is executive editor at America's Test Kitchen. She is also a food stylist for Cook's Country magazine, an on-screen test cook for America's Test Kitchen, and host of an upcoming podcast. As the founder of SheChef, Inc., a professional networking organization and social enterprise, Elle provides mentoring to women chefs of color pursuing careers in the culinary arts. With her creative eye for telling a story with food and her unique contribution to the dialogue surrounding women in business, Elle has appeared on Food Network, Food Network Magazine, The Cooking Channel, The Katie Couric Show, CBS Corporation, ABC's The Chew, and Bravo's Chef Roble and Co. Elle has been featured in stories in the Boston Globe, Forbes, and Eater and on the Tom Joyner Morning Show and National Public Radio.

"Have fun, eat well, and entertain from your heart and soul" -- Elle Simone Scott

Turn having people over into a casual affair (and make it look good, too) with these boards: Chopped Salad Board, Clambake Board, Wings Board, Ice Cream Sundae Board.

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