Tim & Lori Laird
(Entertaining Editors-at-Large) Lori and Tim Laird and their “Easy Entertaining” column have been featured in F&D for more than a decade. Tim is known as America’s CEO (Chief Entertaining Officer ) for Brown-Forman (now retired), and Lori is an Executive Recruiter for the automotive industry. The couple travels globally to show others how to entertain at home. Tim makes hundreds of appearances a year on radio and television programs and has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, The Tonight Show, ABC World News Now, and Good Morning America to name a few. Together they have published three highly acclaimed books on “Easy Entertaining.”
For us, the arrival of Fall whets our appetite not only for food, but for fun, cocktails, and the high-spirited camaraderie and friendly rivalries...
When we throw a Derby party, we think big. We have been collaborating for our Easy Entertaining parties with local chefs for over 10...
While we love entertaining and food prepping for our parties ourselves, we never turn down the chance to have chefs join us.
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We like what late summer here in the Ohio Valley provides us for parties — long, lazy afternoons and evenings; patios and decks ideal...
Tailgating is always a fun occasion to get friends together to cheer on your favorite teams. In the winter months football is still in...
With the growing emphasis on using local ingredients whenever possible in cooking, it is only natural that restaurant chefs would experiment with uses for...
Up here, north of Bayou Country, Cajun food is party food, the mark of a celebration that includes spicy sausage and seafood, rice and...
On the first Saturday in May, Derby season is celebrated in Kentucky and throughout the region. As we hope for another Triple Crown winner,...
Originally published in the Winter 2015 issue of Food & Dining Magazine.
The holidays call for celebratory dishes, special occasion favorite foods which evoke wonderful sights...
Who doesn’t like chocolate? Or holidays? Well we have a reason to celebrate then because there are no less than 42 official Chocolate Holidays...
