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.”
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