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Title: Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday
ISBN: 0743292863
Author:
Paula Deen
Publicate Date: 2007-10-30
Publish: 2007-10-30
List Price: $23.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: So disappointed
I ordered this book for a gift and was really disappointed in it. I wish I had read the other reviews before I bought it. I would have saved my money. I will probably end up keeping it and purchasing something else for the gift. I can't believe how small it is.
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2: Are all of you other reviewers huffing glue?!?!
First off...I have poor vision, that's right, and I wear contacts. If you've had failed lasik boo-hoo, and then pull out your magnifying glass. Not liking a recipe book only based on the size/cover/lack of photos is the STUPIDEST thing I've heard. How many of you reviewers have Joy of Cooking in your cabinets? Yeah, that's what I thought...
All of the cookie recipes are GREAT and her holiday bow-tie cookies recipes are very good and she gives great advice too that even inexperienced cooks can understand. (The cocktail recipes will knock you under the table though so watch out.) I would recommend this for anyone who loves the holidays and loves baking and loves Paula Deen.
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3: Good and Down to Earth
I love the Southern influence, and the stories, and the humor in this book. The recipes remind me of learning to cook beside my mother in a cramped and noisy kitchen. This brought back fond memories and several recipes that were very familiar from my upbringing but which I had forgotten. I am so pleased to have this book in my kitchen cupboard and I plan to use it for many years to come.
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4: Paula D. FAN CLUB
Paula is my favorite cook... I bought this book for me and my grandma.. I made the yummy6 cut out cookies... I also liked this book for the CUTE Stories that are inside.. The advice is great. LIke don't let anything stand in the way of family,, always go home for the holidays,,, I am 27 and listening to Puala about all of it,, she is so great!
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5: Great recipes, but ...
The recipes are outstanding. My one and only dissatisfaction thus far was that the caramel corn she described as addictive was overly sweet - but everything else is yummy.
HOWEVER (and it is a big however), the book is very tiny (the size of a thin paperback), so more suitable as a stocking stuffer than a gift cookbook.
Also, the light green and red print is very Christmasy, but would be impossible for anyone with less than excellent vision to read. (IMHO, a larger book with black lettering would have been far superior ... I can read it, but like things as bold as possible in the kitchen.)
The recipes also appear (word-for-word!) in her other books -- so my recommendation would be to buy one of them, or look for this at a tag sale. If it were Paula Deen's only work, it would be stupendous, but is grossly overpriced for a tiny, hard-to-read-in-the-kitchen copy of the recipes in her other books. Paula Deen's recipes are outstanding, but you don't need more than one copy of the same recipe.
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