- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harvard Common Press (Oct 11 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558324356
- ISBN-13: 978-1558324350
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 907 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #560,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
The first food-gifting book to give equal weight to recipes and their wrappings, with 100 recipes and full-color, step-by-step photos and instructions.
No gift demonstrates generosity and love more than one that is made by hand. And no homemade gift is more appreciated than one that's edible, especially when it's as pretty to look at and delectable to eat as the ones in Dinah Corley's Gourmet Gifts. Corley offers up 100 scrumptious and splendidly crafted projects. It's perfect for cooks who want to jumpstart their presentation skills, for crafters who want to give their food gifts a significant upgrade from the standard plate of chocolate chip cookies or pan of lasagna, and for anyone who wants to give a gift that's decidedly personal and sure to please. Gourmet Gifts includes both money-saving gifts and opulent special-occasion gifts, foods that ship well over a long distance, gifts for people who are under the weather, and loads of ideas for the holidays. Forty beautiful color photos help readers envision the final gift.
No gift demonstrates generosity and love more than one that is made by hand. And no homemade gift is more appreciated than one that's edible, especially when it's as pretty to look at and delectable to eat as the ones in Dinah Corley's Gourmet Gifts. Corley offers up 100 scrumptious and splendidly crafted projects. It's perfect for cooks who want to jumpstart their presentation skills, for crafters who want to give their food gifts a significant upgrade from the standard plate of chocolate chip cookies or pan of lasagna, and for anyone who wants to give a gift that's decidedly personal and sure to please. Gourmet Gifts includes both money-saving gifts and opulent special-occasion gifts, foods that ship well over a long distance, gifts for people who are under the weather, and loads of ideas for the holidays. Forty beautiful color photos help readers envision the final gift.
About the Author
Dinah Corley has spent many years as a cooking teacher, and has also designed and decorated several restaurants. She lived on Martha's Vineyard for 20 years and now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia.
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3.9 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gourmet is Correct!, Jan 26 2012
By Colene M. White - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself and Wrap with Style (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
I was hoping this would be a bit "easier" as far as content in the recipes; but as beautiful as these items are and I'm sure most are tasty, these are complicated, time-consuming recipes. I found one in the entire book that I MIGHT use, at some time. So unless you are dedicated to spending lots of time and have exotic ingredients, pass on this book. It is truly a collection of "Gourmet Gift" items.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disorganized, many recipes for pot-lucks rather than gifts, Jan 24 2012
By Book Fan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself and Wrap with Style (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
Pros: Interesting recipes and presentation ideasCons: Poorly organized, distracting layout, some recipes are not giftable
This book has an unusual organization which could be clever if it were better done. Rather than being by type of food (e.g. cookies, preserves, etc.), recipes are grouped by other attributes such as size of the batch, cost of the food, so forth. This could be very useful if there was a list of recipes within each section so that you could quickly see what was there without having to page through the entire book. At least there is an alphabetical index that can be read, not quite the same thing.
In particular, for each recipe, there is a list of traits about cost (inexpensive or not), easy or hard, whether it ships well, etc. It would be really good if there was a chart of all of these at the back, so I could quickly find all the recipes which ship well, or all the recipes which are easy, etc. They went to the trouble of classifying all of these recipes, too bad they didn't use these classifications in any interesting way.
Also the graphical layout is distracting. Multiple fonts and colors of text, and many colored side-bars, make it hard to cut through the ink to clearly see the words. It was too busy being arty to be clear.
Finally, this collection has many recipes which are more suitable to bringing to potlucks rather than giving as gifts, such as trifle (layers of cake, whipped cream, and cut-up fruit), or a vegetable salad layered with dressing.
One novel plus is giving many clever packaging or presentation suggestions. But while the recipes are interesting, this book is too unusable to rate highly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Potential but not enough pictures, Jan 19 2012
By soulatpeace - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself and Wrap with Style (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
I received this book as part of the Amazon Vine Program.The idea of the book is great. Even so recipes sound delicious but
pictures for any for comparing your results or even give you
an inspiration.
The recipes are involved some are easier but for the most part
the are involved.
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