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Bon Appetit Christmas: Entertaining, Holiday Baking, Gifts from the Kitchen

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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. Five chapters 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.

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.

The recipes are not intimidating and they do not require lots of hard-to-find expensive gourmet products. Some recipes are accompanied by step-by-step instructions, which I especially like.

This book is out of print, so hurry and buy one on Amazon Marketplace. Mine was listed as used, but it was in a perfect condition and at just 3$ it's a steal! Did I mention it is beautifully printed too?

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

After having seen this book via my library, I ordered myself a copy of this charming, simple and beautiful book, with its wonderful photos and to die for recipes. There is no filler here, so you will get the maximum amount of recipes/ideas in your holiday baking/cooking throughout these pages. The author(s)walks you through set by step so that each recipes will have the end result of divinity at your table. There are prepared menus with main dishes, side dishes, drinks to accompany the food and a dessert with warm drink, to top off the evening.

Your holiday guests may not want to leave you -- That's a good thing.

Happy Holidays

I have had this recipe book for about 5 years, but love it so much that I ordered another one for my son so that he can cook the holiday favorites too. The different types of situations, like Caroler's Buffet, etc with the suggested menus is very helpful. I plan to serve pork crown roast for Christmas day and the presentation is very stunning, with all the side dishes.. I recommend also getting the newer edition of this book also as it has some great ideas on table settings, name tags, gifts, etc