This book has many christmas cookie recipes from gingerbread men to gumdrops.

Christmas Entertaining

Christmas is a time for entertaining, and for the host that means hours spent planning, shopping, cooking, and decorating the house. With a good guidebook in hand, the work of holiday entertaining can be one of the joys of the season. In Williams-Sonoma Christmas Entertaining, you'll discover everything you need to know to welcome guests into your home with style and ease.

Organized around six festive holiday occasions, this book provides complete menus and decorating ideas, all designed to fit the way people like to entertain and spend time together today: a cozy Fireside Cocktail Party; an Italian Christmas Eve supper; a chic Christmas Eve in the City; a lavish, traditional New England Christmas; a sparkling Snow Country Breakfast; and a casual New Year's Day Open House.

There are some fifty easy-to-master recipes for everything from make-ahead finger food to appetizers, main courses, and desserts. The beautiful color photography and step-by-step tyle and drink ideas make it easy to create elegant centerpieces, signature beverages, and delightful welcoming touches that transform the table and the house. helpful reference sections provide guidelines on tableware, setting up a buffet, selecting wine, and more.

You can follow the detailed work plans included in each chapter to create a complete party, or mix and match recipes and ideas to assemble your menus. Either way, you'll find everything you need for hosting memorable holiday get-togethers with style and confidence.

The holiday food recollections of some of today's leading chef-writers are brought together. For them, Christmas is wrapped in a warm mix of steaming kitchens, spicy fragrances and carefully laid tables as they share with readers home memories.

Author Nancy Mitford transplants a group of confirmed Londoners to the Cotswolds and takes the reader for a romp through British society, both country and city, during the '20s and'30s.

Revel in fresh approaches to holiday decorating and entertaining, Southern style, with Christmas with Southern Living 2003, a comprehensive guide to doing the holidays right. Readers get an inside look at some of the South`s most beautiful homes decked out in Christmas finery both trendy and traditional. More than 175 color photos beautifully showcase simple, elegant, and easy-to-create decorating motifs, gift projects, and holiday menus. Garland ideas, front door decorations, and treat trimming hints abound throughout, as do new slants on traditional menus and spectacular gift wrapping ideas and solutions. Especially helpful in this edition is the expanded source listing to help readers find the elements they need to create a Christmas that shines for their friends and families.

Revel in fresh approaches to holiday decorating and entertaining, Southern style, with Christmas with Southern Living 2003, a comprehensive guide to doing the holidays right. Readers get an inside look at some of the South`s most beautiful homes decked out in Christmas finery both trendy and traditional. More than 175 color photos beautifully showcase simple, elegant, and easy-to-create decorating motifs, gift projects, and holiday menus. Garland ideas, front door decorations, and treat trimming hints abound throughout, as do new slants on traditional menus and spectacular gift wrapping ideas and solutions. Especially helpful in this edition is the expanded source listing to help readers find the elements they need to create a Christmas that shines for their friends and families.

Revel in fresh approaches to holiday decorating and entertaining, Southern style, with Christmas with Southern Living 2003, a comprehensive guide to doing the holidays right. Readers get an inside look at some of the South`s most beautiful homes decked out in Christmas finery both trendy and traditional. More than 175 color photos beautifully showcase simple, elegant, and easy-to-create decorating motifs, gift projects, and holiday menus. Garland ideas, front door decorations, and treat trimming hints abound throughout, as do new slants on traditional menus and spectacular gift wrapping ideas and solutions. Especially helpful in this edition is the expanded source listing to help readers find the elements they need to create a Christmas that shines for their friends and families.

Two hundred holiday recipes from the pages of Southern Living cover everything from appetizers to desserts, with complete holiday menus, shopping lists, and helpful cooking tips.

This cookbook compiles the best, most memorable recipes from the past years of Christmas With Southern Living annuals. Ten chapters of recipes will relieve holiday stress and assist readers with their merry preparations. Also include are recipes updated to reflect today's ingredients, menu ideas, and make-ahead tips.

The experts at "Southern Living" offer a beautiful new volume dedicated exclusively to classic Christmas recipes.