Vanessa Cantave, Chef And Entertaining Expert, Serves Up 10 Tips For Fancying Up Your BBQ

Chef Vanessa Cantave's 10 Tips To Upgrade Your Summer BBQ

BBQs are meant to be casual, but every now and then a summer celebration -- birthdays, family reunions, impromptu gatherings with friends -- calls for a little something special.

We called on chef and entertaining expert Vanessa Cantave for some advice on how to fancy up a cookout in a pinch.

For Cantave -- who says she refined her palette noshing on Nutella and escargot as a military kid and who ditched a career in banking eight years ago to pursue a culinary degree -- dressing up a dish or dinner table is just as easy as paring one down.

"Upgrading is all about thinking about some of the elements you would have at a dinner party and some of the elements you would have at a BBQ and fusing them together," she says.

Here, she shares her top 10 tips and recipes, plus some of her favorite summer tunes, to kick off BBQ season in style this Memorial Day.

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