Christmas with Southern Living [Hardcover]

Rebecca Brennan (Editor), Julie Gunter (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Christmas with Southern Living | Publication Date: June 2005

From the most treasured authority on gracious holiday entertaining comes a special 25th anniversary edition of Christmas with Southern Living. As always, CWSL takes readers on a photographic tour of the South’s most spectacular residences, decorated to the hilt in a variety of Christmas styles. This commemorative volume also features 25 all-time favorite Christmas recipes; 25 years of top decorating and gift ideas; and a lavish Christmas dinner menu with a step-by-step photographic "Countdown-to-Christmas" calendar and style guide. New "5 Ingredient, 15 Minute Holiday Recipes" help preserve your sanity during the hectic Christmas season.

Key Features:

* Complete guide to the holidays, containing new ideas for decorating, holiday cooking and entertaining, food gifts, and wrappings
* Nearly 100 kitchen-tested recipes with shortcut options
* Over 100 ideas for decorating the entire house—simple centerpieces, place cards, party favors, table setting ideas—many of which are made from things you have on hand
* Over 50 Christmas Tips & Pointers

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House; 25 Anv edition (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848730143
• ISBN-13: 978-0848730147
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #908,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars too much cake, October 17, 2005

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Marsha Nelson - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Christmas with Southern Living (Hardcover)

I buy this book each year and will continue to do so. However, my first impressions of this book is too many cakes are featured. From my party and family gathering experiences I find that very few people will eat cake during the holidays. Small bites of fabulous desserts are more popular. When you commit to a whole piece of cake it limits the other goodies you can sample. So, a recipe book full of cake is not what I had hoped for in this issue.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Punkinhead, June 13, 2006

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S. Cheadle "Punkinhead" (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas with Southern Living (Hardcover)

Not what I expected. I have most of the other editions and it seems they took the best of the past 25 years and put it all in one book. I hope that 2006 edition is better!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally enjoyed the book!!, February 4, 2006

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This was my first purchase of a Christmas With Southern Living book and I was quite happy with my purchase and am anticipating the 2006!! I took this to my parents one weekend when my sisters were there and they all wanted a copy. I used quite a few of the recipes from the book for my Thanksgiving Dinner and they went over well especially the Butter Coconut Pie--YUMMY. As I am not a seasoned CWSL book buyer I don't have others to compare it to (except for one from the 1990's my sister gave me which I felt was not half as nice as this one)but would give this ***** five stars.