Description: Aided by the award-winning elegance and skill of photographer Merle Prosofsky, author Lovoni Walker serves us 75 of the best recipes in classic and contemporary festive cooking. This sumptuously illustrated cookbook includes appetizers, entertaining, main dishes, sweet treats and side dishes. Walker has tested and re-tested each and every recipe in the book and paid special attention to ensuring the recipes are easy for the at-home cook to follow. You'll find handy tips and sidebars throughout. 'The Essential Christmas Cookbook' is sure to become a treasured possession both for new cooks and those with experience in the kitchen.
Brief description: Lovonia Walker is a food consultant who has contributed to more than 50 cookbooks and has styled food for magazines, advertising agencies, restaurants and television cooking shows. Walker emigrated from Australia, where she worked as a food stylist for the Australian Women's Weekly, to Canada. She now owns her own company, which develops and tests recipes for catering services, restaurants and other food establishments. She continues to write and do food lay-outs for magazines and cookbooks as well as providing cooking demonstrations and teaching. She has a lengthy client list from across North America, including such firms as Gourmet Traveller, Jenny Craig, and Sunset Publishing.