FOOD AND NUTRITION SSS3 FIRST TERM

WEEK 4 & 5

THE ART OF ENTERTAINING

CONTENT

Entertaining means inviting people to have food and drink with you. Whenever such occasions for entertaining arise, there must be guests and hosts or hostesses. The guests are the people who come to share the joy and happiness of the occasion while the hosts or hostesses are the people who are around to receive or welcome the guests. The success of any occasion is the joint responsibility of the host and guest.

The first step in organizing a celebration to which guests will be invited is ‘planning’. The host should decide on the type of guests to be invited and the type of entertainment they will be given in terms of food and drinks. The host will also decide the nature of the celebration or party i.e. whether dinner, buffet, cocktail, etc. After this initial planning, the next step is sending out invitation cards to the guests..... View More