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Learn to COOK - Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas
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List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $18.96
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Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.53
EAN: 9780446911733
ISBN: 0446911739
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1997-10-16
Publisher: Warner Books
Studio: Warner Books
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This gift book combines excerpts from Lewis Carroll's "Alice" stories, Victorian poems, teatime food, and games. Included are recipes for such goodies as lemon-raspberry looking-glass cake, and inventive games like "Pin in the Cheshire Grin" and "Flamingo Croquet".
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Summary: More Fluff than Detail
Comment: Though the pictures and layout are indeed beautiful it is unlikely that anyone but the most skilled and well-equipped person would be able to reproduce the parties shown in the photographs. Most people won't have the supplies necessary for the tablesettings or even the activities, and will not want to spend the money necessary to acquire them. Recipes are not practical or tasty. Suggestions are not detailed enough to truly employ in any kind of meaningful manner. Text is filled with fluff and flowery sweetness and leaves the reader wishing the authors had spent more time with truly detailed instructions for the preparation of a tea party.
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Summary: A wonderful and creative help!
Comment: My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hosting several parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed a few recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
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Summary: Taking Tea With Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fancif
Comment: My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hostingseveral parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed afew recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
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Summary: One of the best tea party books available!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: isn't it just precious!
Comment: 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.
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