Christmas is cooking season, so every year the cookbooks come out for the old favorites and for some new options. Sarah Leah Chase's Nantucket Open House Cookbook has been around forever, and provides the important Christmas Breakfast Recipe, and a regular mix of party recipes.
The others are much newer. Delia's new Happy Christmas book replaces her 20 year old standard (adopted by me when I moved to London). Sarah Raven, now mistress of Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst through her husband Adam Nicolson, is the trendy vegetable foodie of the moment, with a series of books over the past few years. Her Garden Cookbook and the Complete Christmas have become standards for traditional recipes with a modern, but not too radical, twist.
So like Santa, I am making my lists and checking them twice to buy the ingredients and prepare a cooking schedule for our supper party guests this weekend.
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