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The All-American Christmas Cookbook includes recipes for family favorites from every state – from Alabama’s pecan divinity to Utah’s peppermint stick cake – that will liven your family meals and holiday entertaining.
Baking for All Occasions, by Flo Braker. This is a great guide to creating perfect baked goods for seasonal parties as well as holiday gift-giving. For more baked treats, check out Christmas Cookies by Lisa Zwirn or A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies, by Dede Wilson.
Extreme Entertaining Made Simple, by Eduardo Xol. This innovative guide to entertaining uses all five senses to inspire the design, mood, taste, and sound of your special gathering, with six party themes that can be applied to many occasions, recipes for food and drink, and tips on table settings and décor. And, it’s accompanied by a music CD!
Gooseberry Patch Christmas All Through the House, from the publishers of Southern Living, is filled with over 400 kitchen-tested recipes for meals, desserts, snacks, drinks, and holiday treats. They’ve also included more than 200 gift suggestions and a host of ideas for holiday crafts and decorating.
Jacques Torres’ A Year in Chocolate, by Jacques Torres and others. No holiday is complete without chocolate, as Torres demonstrates in this compilation of a years’ worth of chocolate recipes, from poached pears with chocolate fondue for New Year’s, to Valentine’s day bon bons, to Buche de Noel for Christmas.
Katie Brown Celebrates, by Katie Brown. Liven your parties with ideas from the star of PBS’s Katie Brown Workshop. Her book gives a year-round set of special occasion hosting plans, with craft projects, recipes and more for events such as a child’s birthday party, a family reunion, or a fabulous Christmas brunch.
New Orleans Classic Appetizers, by Kit Wohl, showcases classic hors d’oeuvres and appetizers from some of the Big Easy’s best chefs and restaurants, like Antoine’s Crabmeat Imperial, Restaurant Cuvee’s Shrimp Remoulade Napoleon, and Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House Oyster Shooters.
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