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Learn to COOK - The Christmas Table
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5686
EAN: 9780811860932
ISBN: 0811860930
Label: Chronicle Books
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Studio: Chronicle Books
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The Christmas Table serves up comfort and joy with helpful hints and recipes to plan an unforgettable holiday feast. Award-winning author Diane Morgan fills the book with festive recipes and decorating ideas that are sure to become favorites. On Christmas morning opening presents will be even sweeter with a breakfast of Cinnamon-Scented Bread Custard and delightful recipes like Juniper Brined Roast Turkey and Whipped Yams topped with a Crunchy Praline Crust will be instant yuletide classics. This comprehensive holiday guide also includes recipes for Christmas cookies candied nuts and other giftable goodies. With simple beautiful crafts and delicious easy-to-follow recipes The Christmas Table ensures a very merry Christmas for everyone.
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Summary: Another good book
Comment: As a retired food editor, I certainly didn't need another cookbook, but I purchased this one because I know Diane Morgan does quality, creative work. The recipe for Mocha Pots De Creme is worth the price of the book. I especially like the way Diane drops in helpful "cook's notes," as well as the occasional specific buying tip for ingredients, such as chocolate. Her sense of humor comes through in the menu for "Chrismukkah, the hybrid holiday meal." The leftovers section has a recipe for ham macaroni and cheese -- and its fun photo shows a dish mostly disappeared. I'll be using her menu for Christmas brunch on New Year's Day when my alma mater, the Michigan State Spartans, play in their bowl game. Win or lose the game, the food should be great.
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Summary: beautiful book for the holidays
Comment: I have several of Diane Morgan's cookbooks, and I have just added The Christmas Table. The book is visually stunning, with gorgeous colored photographs. Even better, it is filled with wonderful recipes, from traditional favorites like prime rib (done here with a salt and garlic crust) to inventive, contemporary offerings (whole roast salmon with farro-herb stuffing). There's a chapter on holiday brunches and another on Christmas gifts from the kitchen. But the real reason I keep buying Diane Morgan's books is because the recipes work! They are well written and easy to follow, and even the most complicated ones are explained clearly. This is a lovely gift to give for the holidays. My lucky sister will be getting one this year.
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Summary: Overly Fancy, Less Traditional
Comment: The Christmas Table has a photograph of a mouth-watering ham on the cover - reminiscent of the hams of Christmases past - but the recipes inside are anything but traditional Christmas recipes. The selections include appetizers, such as sake oyster shooters and pistachio and chive goat cheese on puff pastry wafers, side dishes of sautéed brussels sprouts with garlic and parmesan and puree of celery root, main courses of short ribs bourguigonne and Christmas goose. Thankfully, the desserts are a little more traditional, with persimmon pudding and gingerbread bundt cake with crème anglaise. There is even a section on Christmas breakfasts with overnight cinnamon bread custard and blueberry ricotta pancakes.
A number of the recipes have too many ingredients and the preparation time is longer than most working cooks will want to try. If you are looking for a cookbook of traditional recipes that you can get on the table in reasonably short order - keep looking - there are better cook books out there.
Reviewed by Sharon Lebrun
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Summary: My new Christmas cookbook
Comment: The Christmas Table is my new favorite book for holiday entertaining and family dinners. The photography is beautiful and makes any reader want to try so many recipes. My personal favorites are the Whipped Garnet Yams with Pecan Praline Crust (yum!) and Overnight Cinnamon Bread Custard especially for Christmas morning. I recently had a radicchio caesar salad in a restaurant and the recipe in this book is so much better. If you like to cook and want simple, clear recipes with everyday ingredients, you will love this book.
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Summary: A real Christmas gift from Diane...
Comment: I am a very big fan of Diane's books she always makes me think and try new things. Her recipes work, they come out as advertised and never disappoint. Christmas Table like Thanksgiving Table before it will become my second holiday cookbook bible, as the seasons approach my wife and I take the Thanksgiving book down and start our planning, we will do the same with this one. If you consider cooking a hobby, like to try new things and truly enjoy the process, as well as the results AND you want to please everyone at your table, including yourself this is the book for you.
ENJOY!
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