Hundreds of the best ideas for 12 holidays throughout the year--from New Year's to Halloween--collected from the pages of Martha Stewart Living. Each menu is lavishly illustrated and explained with step-by-step instructions. Sidebars cover such topics as lighting an outdoor party, dyeing Easter eggs, and the perfect cakes to make every occasion memorable. Full-color photographs.
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With Martha's help, you've mastered Rosemary Shallot Popovers and Ina's Cornmeal Cheddar Scones. Your Thanksgiving dinners are legendary. You bake hundreds of cookies and decorate your home from top to bottom at Christmas. But do you know how to create a festive Labor Day, or a Fourth of July that goes off with a bang?
Designed as a companion to 1993's Holidays, Special Occasions: The Best of Martha Stewart Living moves away from Thanksgiving and Christmas to focus instead on Valentine's Day, Easter Sunday, and other "days we choose to make special." Martha and company provide elegant menus and decorating tips for 12 theme events, from a New Year's Day soup buffet to an All Hallows' Eve potluck supper, celebrating Mother's Day, graduation day, and even simply a midsummer's day in between. Sidebars featuring food histories, tips on collecting, and etiquette are interspersed with the recipes. The recipes themselves are predictably wonderful, from a simple yet beautiful Herbed Tomato Salad to an elaborate, sinful "Chocolate Romance" cake and a Pansy Cake that looks too pretty to eat. Martha would be the first to tell you that "good company comes first" when planning a successful party, but this book can certainly help with everything else. After all, who says the first day of summer isn't as special as Thanksgiving--especially when celebrated with a Tuscan feast. --C.B. Delaney
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Martha Stewart is back, and in her own inimitable way she will recaptivate her legions of fans, who should expect an enticing, beautifully photographed presentation in this latest book, which features recipes, decorating ideas, and gardening tips culled from previously published holiday features in Stewart's Living magazine. From a New Year's meal bedecked with cut branches that have been forced into bloom, the reader proceeds to spectacular cakes designed for a lavish Mother's Day get-together, onward to a Labor Day bash with crayfish and French Provenc{‡}al dishes. Ah, yes, industrious cooks and decorators will find revealed here the secrets to capturing a subtly sophisticated yet genial ambience for perfectly orchestrated events. Alice Joyce
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Martha Stewart is the author of dozens of bestselling books on cooking, entertaining, homekeeping, gardening, weddings, and decorating. She is the host of The Martha Stewart Show, the Emmy-winning daily syndicated television program, and founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which publishes several magazines, including Martha Stewart Living; produces Martha Stewart Living Radio; and provides a wealth of ideas and information on her website.
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Well done and illustrated, these are features from the early days of the magazine. I can personally vouch for the pear bread pudding and the torta di riso--a lot of work but like a lot of things, WELL worth the effort. I don't know if I could do all of those things at once for one activity, especially the wedding at home. But in addition to all the recipes and chapters, it's idea-inspiring. Which is what Martha is all about (that, and the stock market!)
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A book for all occasions,
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The menus planned in the book are delicious. Each is catagorized under a different event or holiday, but I've used them for not so special events too. There are also wonderful decorating and entertaining ideas for all seasons. The paella is wonderful!
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if you like martha,
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a good entertaing book for martha stewart fans only. a lighthearted book. all stories could be more
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- The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas on page 99
- Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, April 1858 to July 1858 by Henry Burgess in Back Matter
- The Best of Martha Stewart Living : Weddings by Martha Stewart Living Magazine in Back Matter
- Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework by Margaret Horsfield in Back Matter
- Arranging Flowers (Best of Martha Stewart Living Series) by Martha Stewart Living Magazine in Back Matter
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