How to Cook Everything: Christmas: 20 Festive Holiday Recipes and 34 Variations

How to Cook Everything

by Mark Bittman

Make Christmas gatherings memorable with this handy collection of holiday recipes from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.   When winter comes, it’s time to pull out your pots and pans and fill your kitchen with wonderful aromas of fresh baked goodies and savory, slow-cooked treats. This collection of 20 traditional and nontraditional holiday hits (with variations) from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything series is sure to make any get-together memorable, menus for a festive celebratory meal to share around the tableparty food perfect for a holiday get-togetherfoods that make great gifts

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Reference, Nonfiction, Christmas

89 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

MARK BITTMAN is one of the country's best-known and most widely respected food writers. His How to Cook Everything books, with one million copies in print, are a mainstay of the modern kitchen. Bittman writes for the Opinion section of New York Times on food policy and cooking, and is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine. His "The Minimalist" cooking show, based on his popular NYT column, can be seen on the Cooking Channel. His most recent book, VB6, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale.

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Main takeaway is that this book is not very useful to me. I mean, if you have to cook DUCK or OYSTERS for your holiday meal great for you—although you probably have your own tried and true recipes if that is the case. But that’s not what my holiday meal looks like! I do appreciate that as always you’re given base recipes and told how to adjust them to your own taste.

That said, the recipes I might cook feel like they’re already part of his bigger cookbooks and so this feels a bit unnecessary.

So, borrow from the library but this isn’t something I’d go out and buy for my cookbook shelf. :-)

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and sweet!

Some good recipes and ideas. The oyster soup is lush and festive. Oysters are a traditional holiday food in the northeast where we live. Food ideas for gifting are always appreciated.

[Kirsti · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little out of season, but a fun read. Most of these recipes are designed to feed a crowd, which makes sense given the topic, but I prefer recipes that serve four-ish people.

[Bella · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up expecting to learn how to cook “everything,” so you can imagine my confusion when it turned out to be mostly American holiday food. I spent the whole book thinking, “Wow, this is a very festive definition of everything.” Then I finished it… and realized it literally says Christmas on the cover. That one’s on me. Oops.

[Kathy B.T. · Rating 1 out of 5]

NO PICTURES. What is a cookbook without colored pictures of the recipes?!