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Very good
Dawn Hall is a Christian author who has always had to watch her weight.These recipes are low in fat, easy, and delicious.They also make a nice presentation for guests.Highly recommend. ... Read more

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Very Helpful
I used this book to help me set the table as well as for the recipes inside.I couldn't have had my Seder without it.

Lots of menus and ideas for Passover.
I had this book for a year or two before I really tried out the recipes one year.They are excellent!Read more

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Makes holidays easier!
This Holiday Entertaining book is great!The book outlines each holiday (including Mothers Day, Halloween etc etc) and suggests a full menu for each special day!I love the ideas for meals and desserts and there are a lot of recipes that can be made ahead!This book is easy to read, the recipes are simple to follow and most ingredients are already available in your kitchen. ... Read more

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Such little book, so much knowledge
My mom bought this cookbook a few years ago and never ended up using it because I snatched it into my own clutches and have been using it ever since.
The Perfect Thanksgiving Book
I prepared my very first Thanksgiving meal last year and without this book I would have failed misserably.Instead I prepared a wonderful meal full of flavor that was so easy and so delicious.Many of the recipies are now family favorites.Try the rosemary bread on page 50, my personal favorite! ... Read more

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Oh, What Fun it Is!
This book is a real treat for kids of every age, from 1-92!It has it all -from Christmas Carols to Festive Traditions to Christmas Cookies and Holiday Recipies.There are Christmas Stories and Wishes and Treats - and anything else you could ever need to create Magical Christmas Memories!This is one of Santa's Favorites! It's sure to become one of yours too!
The Everything Christmas Book
Filled with stories, legends, songs, and recipes, The Everything Christmas Book is a fun read, as well as an authoritative reference.The editors observe that the true spirit of Christmas is a sense of wonder and "this book is intended as a celebration of that wonder."Read more

Subjects:  1. Christmas    2. Customs & Traditions    3. Decorating    4. General    5. Holiday - General    6. Holidays - Christmas    7. Reference    8. Social life and customs    9. United States    10. Christmas books   

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celebrate Christmas any time of the year !
This book is filled with easy-to-follow recipes, many are illustrated with DELICIOUS, full-color photos. My family couldn't wait to try out some of the ideas (even the teenagers who rarely do more than open the fridge). I highly recommend this book ! ... Read more

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great book
This is a great book for anyone looking for entertainment ideas.There are recipes for every occasion. I will be using it in many years to come since it is filled with wondeful ideas from cooking, to flower arranging.The recipes are multicultural.

Beautiful Cookbook
This Williams-Sonoma cookbook is gorgeous.It has pictures for each of the recipes, and it's just a great entertaining book.It gives helpful tips on flower arranging, napkin folding, and table setting as well. It also has a glossary of special ingredients and techniques that some of the recipes use.It's a wonderful book, even though some of the recipes are a little too gourmet for me. ... Read more

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An inspiration!
This is one of the best cookbooks I own. My husband is a very picky eater and usually I can use just a few recipes from the whole cookbook, but this one clearly stands out. When just browsing through it for the first time, it made my mouth water and I just couldn't wait to make all these goodies.
Lovely& Practical Large Format Holiday Cookbook
This is a really lovely large format book for holiday baking, entertaining, and gifts from the kitchen. It has little, or perhaps no, redundancy from Bon Appetit magazine, so there is plenty for subscribers and non-subscribers to enjoy. The book has 17 chapters. Four chapters address one entire holiday feast each, with each meal in a different style. Fivechapters provide recipes especially suited for other holiday season festivities such as a tree-trimming supper, a dessert buffet, a cocktail party, and an open house. Other chapters are dedicated to specific types of food, rather than entire meals. These include chapters on: breads, cookies and cranberry sauces as well as Christmas puddings, a buche de noel, an elaborate chocolate cake, and a croquembouche, whose chapters include step-by-step illustrated instructions on how to construct these holiday masterpieces. The "Gifts from the Kitchen" chapter offers an array of 22 recipes for cookies, candies, sauces, jams, breads and more that are easy to make and sure to impress. Every recipe isn't accompanied by a photograph, but there are many large color photos throughout the book. The paper is also of very nice quality. "Bon Appetit Christmas" is a worthy addition to the library of any cook and makes a lovely gift for those who like to bake or entertain.

The greatest Holiday book ever published
This is the indispensable Christmas guide.I used it before the Christmas holiday last year and never had so many compliments on everything from the table and gift ideas to the chocolate ruffle cake on the cover,Give it to a friend as a gift and buy one for yourself.You won't regret it ... Read more

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Reads like a cozy nook.
My mother gave me this book for Christmas 8 years ago. I literally haven't put it down since! It not only contains recipes that were (and still are) cherished from a generation who knew what life was really all about, but the incidental tidbits of how life was lived long ago is absolutely priceless in this age when things are so inside out and everyone is looking for security and peace. The poems that were dear to the hearts of the depression era pull at the heartstrings, and the wonderful, descriptive details of families and friends that seemed to gather for any reason place the reader in that special time. The recipes are delicious and made with the easy-make-do-with-what-you-have confidence that our grandmothers prided themselves on.From Aunt Mabel's Cranberry Bread to Uncle Bud's Vinegar Pie, they're all recipes that would be welcome on any of today's contemporary tables. Granted, many of us wouldn't dream of making pie crust with lard....but one wouldn't hurt! If anyone has already read The Pioneer Lady's Country Kitchen, than The Pioneer Lady's Country Christmas is a must have for those collecting unusual and homey cookbooks. So stoke up the woodstove, grab a cup of hot chocolate and a cat for your lap, and read this book. You'll be transported to a wonderful memory!

Helpful and heart-warming
This is a lovely book.Recipes and crochet projects are interspersed with old-fashioned Christmas memories.The recipes are practical and delicious.There are cakes, pies, puddings and candies.This book made me want to get right up and start baking.It will go a long way to making this 21st century Christmas as old-fashioned as possible. ... Read more

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Best Challah Recipe Ever
For anyone who likes to bake bread, this has a great recipe for challah.It works perfectly, and turns out some of the best bread I have ever had!

More exciting than Matzo...
I found this book okay... nothing special.It does have a fair share of interesting recipes and ideas, but it can be a challenge just to find them.Unlike a traditional cookbook it is organized by holiday, theme party etc. So if you want to look at all the soup options, you have to jump all overthe book.I find it daunting to have to work just to find the recipe! Idon't know if I would classify the content of The Gourmet Jewish Cook"gourmet".It might be useful for a beginner or someone underthe impression that all there is to Jewish cuisine is matzo balls &chicken soup, for and advanced cook/gourmet - I'd say pass.

Interesting collection of flavors and ideas
Most of the recipies in this book are innovative and interesting. Judy Zeidler takes tried and true recipies and gives them a new twist. There are a few must tries, inlcuding: The Matza Farfel cookies for Passover andStuffed Grape Leaves! ... Read more

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If you're looking for a good buche recipe, look no further!
This is a terrific cookbook!The recipes are easy to follow and the results are fabulous.The buche de noel recipe especially is the easiest, tastiest and the most impressive-looking one that I've found anywhere and has become a popular annual Christmas tradition with my family and friends; I end up baking around a half dozen of them every year for parties and get-togethers.This book is worth its weight in gold if you do alot of baking for the holidays (or any other day, for that matter)!

A Sure Thing!
I have tried many recipes in this cookbook and they were all a success!Definitely a must-have for your holiday baking.I must admit that I don't only use the book for the holidays.The chocolate almond cheesecake, lemonblueberry bundt cake and blueberry pecan coffee cake make great dessertsfor any occasion.The recipes are easy to read and most are fairly simple. Never disappointing! ... Read more

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Not a fairy book but an ok survey of traditions
This book is definitely misnamed.There is hardly any reference whatsoever to fairies in here other than the author weaving in the word "folk" here and there but even when she does try to weave in something to do with "folk" it seems forced or an after thought - like they decided later to name the book the fairy party book and then added in some words to make the title fit.If you're looking for a book that hits on all sorts of holidays/celebrations (pagan, christian and commercial) throughout the year then this book can provide a good survey of traditions but that's about where it ends.For New Years, for example, which starts out the book, there are about 4 pages of text on the holiday and you get a couple of paragraphs on how its celebrated in the US, a couple of paragraphs on how its celebrated in Germany, in Finland, in Puerto Rico, in Indonesia, in Cuba, etc.Then there are a couple of recipes - none of which look very good to me - most are meat-based and I'm vegan - but even if I did eat meats the recipes are not very creative.The New Years chapter is one of the longer ones.Most holidays only get a page or two.I was taken a back with seeing certain things like valentines day, independence day (4th July), mothers day, fathers day, labor day (why not memorial day or George Washington's birthday too?).Anyway, I definitely don't recommend buying this book but if you feel compelled to look at it - check it out at the library first.Again, ok for a very superficial look at holidays/traditions across cultures, very light on fairies and hardly any creative ideas. The cross-cultural look is interesting but so superficial you don't get any sort of understanding as to why a certain ritual/tradition was/is practiced. I also thought the sections on things like weddings (one page), retirement parties, baby showers etc were generic and didn't offer any interesting ideas.Wouldn't recommend it.

NOT VERY MAGICAL
This book gives you a brief history of many holidays, and then gives you at least one, often-times more than one recipe to go with the holiday.The holidays range from typical religious, seasonal or patriotic holidays, such as Easter, Christmas, Fourth of July, Halloween, etc., and then also throws in other lesser-known and less-often celebrated holidays, such as Carnival, Groundhog Day, St. Joseph's Day, Three King's Day, etc.It also covers "Special Occasions", such as a Bridal Shower, Welcoming the Baby, Housewarming, Etc.This section is followed by "Nuts and Bolts"; mainly other occasions to get together, such as Potluck Dinner, Afternoon Tea, Garden Party, etc.The last part of the book is some small sections on lore and cooking terms.Read more

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Holiday Recipes From Breakfast to Late Snacks--Must Try!!
I first checked this book out from the local library and picked out a few recipes to try for Thanksgiving prior to the Christmas holiday parties.I also took it to my mother for her to look at.She began writing down page numbers of recipes she want copies of too.After trying several of the recipes, which for the most part, were very easy, I decided I wanted this book in my home for year round entertaining.The craft and decorating ideas are also wonderful.I especially liked thetomato cage Christmas trees.It was simple to make and when I showed my friends they couldn't believe it--you have to see the pictures in the book to appreciate how simple and elegant they are and so inexpensive to make.For your holiday entertaining I strongly recommend this beautiful book. ... Read more

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