The Ultimate Christmas Book

by Jane Newdick

Book Overview

Christmas is the time to indulge in a spell of festive creativity and partake of culinary treats. This illustrated guide presents 100 classic and inventive decorations to adorn the home, and 50... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751303151
• ISBN13: 9780751303155
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.

Customer Reviews

--Something for everyone to enjoy--

ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS is more of an instructional book rather than a home-decorating book. There are a few photographs of decorated mantles and dinner tables, but no rooms or houses are ever shown. This book is all about making Christmas decorations and holiday food! I think that the book would have been even better if a few homes were shown embllished with some of the very beautiful decorations displayed on every page. There is information about using live trees and the containers that would suit them. Also shown are various types of artificial trees. About ten of the trees are decorated and instructions are given on how to make those decorations. I especially enjoyed seeing a twig tree, all leafless branches that were hung with gingerbread cookies and cranberry garlands. A Holly topiary tree was also unique with pear ornaments and a partridge sitting in a nest. The reader can also learn to make beautiful wreaths, garlands, topiaries, gift-wrappings, cards, and a very unusual Advent Calendar. The directions are all concise and clear. The Christmas Food section was by far the most enticing part of this production. The food looks scrumptious and is shown in the most gorgeous of photographs. The meals are titled: Christmas Eve in Provence, North American Christmas Lunch, a German Christmas Dinner and a Norwegian Christmas Buffet. Besides traditional desserts, the Cakes and Cookies section offers many international treats; for example, Polish Spiced Cake, Scottish Shortbread and Greek Honey Cake.