Christmas Cooking For Dummies
by Dede Wilson
Christmas Cooking For Dummies
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About the Author
Dede Wilson has planned parties yes, including Christmas parties for thousands of people since 1985 in her work as a party planner. In that time she has also worked as a restaurant chef, bakery owner, recipe developer, and radio talk-show host.
Dede writes periodically for Bon Apptit and is a contributing editor to Pastry Art and Design magazine and is the food and entertaining expert for CanDoWoman.com. Her first book, The Wedding Cake Book (Macmillan, 1997), was nominated for an IACP Julia Child Cookbook Award, and she now has three books to her credit. Dede is a Certified Culinary Professional (CCP).
Dede is a repeat guest on NBCs Today Show and appears frequently on major networks representing corporate sponsors.
Dedication
To my father, Moses Acosta, who taught me how to cook and more importantly, to appreciate food as more than mere sustenance. And believe me, he can carve a turkey like nobodys business!
Authors Acknowledgments
Thank you to Linda Ingroia, my editor, for bringing this project to me and, as always, to Maureen and Eric Lasher, my agents, for guiding my career.
A large support system brings any book For Dummies to fruition, and they have made the job smooth and easy. In part, thanks to Norm Crampton, project editor; Ben Nussbaum, copy editor; Pam Mourouzis, editorial team manager; Emily Nolan, recipe tester; David Bishop, photographer; Brett Kurzweil, food stylist; Donna Larsen, prop stylist; and to the marketing and sales staff.
Thanks to Carole Bloom for providing professional advice and to Juanita Plimpton and Judy Pozar for always being there when I needed to talk out an idea or work out a concept. Thanks to Amy Wasserman for my author photo. Huge thanks to Gabe Hmieleski and Evan Coppola for personal website support.
Thanks to David Kilroy and to my kids, Ravenna, Forrester, and Freeman, for tasting and critiquing Christmas food well into the spring.
And, as always, thanks to Mary McNamara for helping me during the recipe testing and writing phases of the book. Mary, you are my best brainstorming friend and I could not fathom writing a book without you.
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Project Editor: Norm Crampton
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Assistant Acquisitions Editor: Erin Connell
Copy Editor: Ben Nussbaum
Technical Editor: Deborah Mintcheff
Recipe Tester: Emily Nolan
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