Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas [Hardcover]

Dawn Hylton Gottlieb (Author), Diane Sedo (Author)

Book Description

This delightful party planner combines the magic of "Alice in Wonderland" with the timeless charm of tea, showing readers how to create six of their own magical tea parties with "Alice" themes, and featuring recipes for a wide variety of scrumptious treats. Full-color illustrations & photos.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books (October 16, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446911739
• ISBN-13: 978-0446911733
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best tea party books available!, August 19, 1999

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This review is from: Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas (Hardcover)

No tea library should be without "Taking Tea with Alice". It is well-conceived and a source of many creative ideas. The photos are wonderful. I particularly liked the children's photos and have found them useful in prompting ideas for other children's tea parties. The table layouts are accurate and beautiful. The ideas presented are within the means of any tea party organizer. This book is a good value and not filled with fluff. An informative, fun book for all ages!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book with very creative party ideas, September 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in Alice in Wonderland, Tea, or just plain entertaining. The book is beautifully illustrated and contains many creative party ideas for children and adults alike. I have tried, and enjoyed, several of the recipes - I particularly recommend the trifle - a real show stopper! I also enjoyed the historical information about the "real" Alice. This book is a "must" for any lover of good food and gracious entertaining.

57 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars isn't it just precious!, July 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas (Hardcover)

According to the inside back flap, one of the authors works for an advertising agency. That makes sense, because this book looks and reads like an ad. It keeps telling you how sweet and darling everything is, until you (or I, anyway) want to be sick. Lots of annoying photos of children. Not enough photos to show you which foods go with which recipes; you have to guess from the larger photos which still don't indicate which of the microscopic things on the table are the foods in which recipes. The quality of the recipes is inconsistent; they seem to use different words for the same ingredients from one recipe to the next, and some ingredients and procedures are given "Victorian" names and never explained. Other recipes consist of "ask your local baker to make this for you, or look in some other cookbook." Not satisfactory. This is definitely a guide for *children's* parties, with suggestions for menus and activities for children. I suppose you could translate the ideas to parties for adults, if you can get past the breathless sentimentality of the prose, which is all about making things oh-so-special for the little ones. Why do I sound so annoyed by all this? I don't have anything against children or their parties. What bothers me is the emptiness of the prose and the cutesiness of the design, combined with the lack of really useful photos, captioning, recipe treatments, and historical background that would have given this book some substance.