Treasuring the Gift of Tea Time: Tea Parties for Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Friends by Julie Loree Peterson is a quaint read with tasty recipes and suggestions for serving tea and tidbits. Why not try making crumpets or scones?
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Your friends and family may ask for some of the classics (just the way grandma made them) year after year. But there is always room for a new idea or two. Why not try:
You might also enjoy looking at our Christmas cook books as well.
Sam Stern's cookbooks offer up tasty recipes with clear instructions, vibrant pictures and fun patter by the author. The teen Brit instructs on on typical fare and more obscure (at least to Americans) foods such as Croque-Monsieur. (Psst, that's a hot ham and cheese sandwich.)
People generally don't think of Christmas planning until November - but with the sudden rash of snow in October might just have you in a jolly mood. (If not, maybe this book will help you find a happy place.) 2009 Christmas with Southern Living features recipes, entertaining and decorating ideas and gift ideas.
Sourthern Living's Best Loved Cookies: 50 Melt in Your Mouth Southern Morsels is a delectable and knee-weakening collection of gooey, sweet, and unexpected cookies. With full-page photos and clearly written recipes, Best Loved Cookies will tempt the home baker to make something new.
Particularly mouth-watering:
Your baking adventure can be even more fun - bake with your kids, big and little, and enjoy the the sweetness of time spent together.
Bee Wilson's Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee will keep trivia geeks, history buffs and food fans reading.
Did you know that margarine with a yellow colorant was once illegal and folks drove over state-lines to buy yellow margarine? In the states where yellow margarine was illegal, housewives had to buy the bargarine and mix in the yellow colorant themselves - because yellow margarine was considered fraud as the yellow color was meant to make it mimic butter.
Or, that in wartime Germany during harsh food shortages, citizens tried to make all sorts of mock foods. Mock lobster salad was made with potato, celery, brussels sprout and beetroot. The shortage of food was so extreme that a woman, Ethel Cooper, who lived in Leipzeig during the war, commented she did not mind consuming rat; it was the rat substitute she couldn't bear.
Some times you want to forgoe healthy and lean and just get to the good stuff. Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook by Patrick and Gena Neely will have your mouth watering as soon as you open the cover. A great book for a night in and splurging!
Everyone has a go-to cookbook for great recipes or new ideas. Here's a few we think you shouldn't miss:
Have fun in the kitchen!
Is it no longer fun cooking for your family or company because you have to cook several meals, one for the vegetarians and one for the meat eaters? Take heart...award-winning author and chef, Peter Berley has written a book, The Flexitarian Table: inspired, flexible meals for vegetarians, meat lovers and everyone in between, that teaches you how to "prepare vegetarian and meat versions simultaneously without going to any extra trouble." To satisfy your curiosity, a flexitarian is: 1. A person who is mainly a vegetarian, but who occasionally eats fish or meat. 2. Someone who is not a vegetarian but enjoys meatless meals.
