Art&DesignSpring2025

The Wedding Invitation Handbook: Wording, Design, Printing Julie Holcomb. For all who want their invitations to reflect top-quality artisan style rather than a mass-produced design, this guide covers all you need to know to ensure your invitations are creatively perfect. Also a key reference for small letterpress printers, callig- raphers, and others who offer handmade invitations • 5 1/2" x 8" (139 x 203 mm) • 30 illus./diagrams • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-5610-0 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD The White Dress Destinations: The Definitive Guide to Planning the NewDestinationWedding Beth Lindsay Chapman, Candice Coppola & Carla Ten Eyck. With six photo shoots in romantic destinations, this gorgeous book shows you how to curate a bespoke wedding that reflects your personal style and captures the flavor of the destination. It is also a comprehensive planning guide filled with checklists for creating a once-in-a-lifetime experience for you and your guests • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 350+ color images • 272 pp. • 978-0-7643-5303-1 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD The White Dress in Color: Wedding Inspirations Beth Lindsay Chapman, Candice Dowling Coppola & Carla Ten Eyck. Filled with colorful eye candy for the modern bride, this is a compilation of styled photo shoots meant to inspire couples as they embark on the journey of planning their wedding. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 200+ color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643- 4567-8 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD The Art of the Wedding Cake Mary Anne Pirro. Through 346 images, a delicious variety of cakes will whet your appetite for your big day. Choose the details that reflect your personality: all white or Bohemian chic, buttercream roses or fondant flowers, tradition- al tiers or sculpted? Details of the cakes’ creations accompany each image. A great resource for any bride (and groom)-to-be, wedding planner, or bakery own- er • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 346 color images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3924-0 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Cakes for All Occasions Geraldine Kidwell. Learn to create 18 beautiful decorated cakes for children, teens, weddings, holidays, and special celebrations with these sequential instructions. Useful patterns will help get you started and the cake recipes and list of suppliers will inspire you for years to come • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 334 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2904-3 • PB • $25.00 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Dare to Bake!: Cupcake Recipes to Awak- en Your Sweet Tooth Ady Abreu. Learn to bake new and creative cupcakes using everything from the standard vanilla and chocolate to fruits and vegetables. These proven cupcake recipes can be easily recreated at home and also provide a fresh twist to some classics. For bakers looking beyond the typical cupcake recipe • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 48 color images • 88 pp. • 978-0-7643-4796-2 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Sugar Art Geraldine Kidwell and Barbara Green. The worlds of sugar art and cake decorating come togeth- er in this new how-to book featuring decorative pan- orama eggs and sugar moldings. Includes 371 color images and step-by-step directions for 15 cake designs for a baby shower, June bride, fruitful harvest, and ice skating puppies. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 371 color images•128pp. •978-0-7643-3382-8•PB•$24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD A Year of Cupcakes: Designs for All Occasions Geraldine Kidwell. Mini-cake designs addressing every level of decorating. They range from simple ideas for novice bakers to intricate work from a Food Network Cake Challenge gold medal winner. Be inspired to make delightful creations for birthdays, special occasions, and holidays, and even enter a cupcake category at a future cake show. Helpful tips and more than 340 photographs of cupcake designs and techniques • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 340 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3198-5 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD The Art of Food Sculpture Yuci Tan. Explores different carving techniques and offers a broad range of projects simple enough for anyone to accomplish, yet beautiful enough to astonish any guest. Experienced food sculptors will find this book a gold mine of ideas, packed with im- ages and stencil templates for creating amazing center- pieces and plate and platter garnishes. And here, finally, is the solution to that annual conundrum: what to do with the garden’s overabundance of zucchini • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 287 color photos/160 drawings • 192 pp. • 978-0- 7643-1454-4 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Creative Ideas for Garnishing & Decorating Elisabeth Bangert. Step up your plating and decorating techniques with this ideal cookbook for those who regularly entertain. A wide spectrum of ingredients and products, including fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, chocolate, and marzipan demonstrate just how creative you can be • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •339 color photos•80pp. •978-0-7643-3645-4•HC•$19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Edible Art: Tricks & Tools for Master Center- pieces Narahenapitage S. P. DeCosta. De Costa. Simple techniques and tools make it possible to create absolutely stunning centerpieces that will be the talk of the party. Butterflies and rosebuds from colorful beets, carrots, and radishes are easily crafted. Elaborate melon lanterns and flower filled vases with step-by-step in pictures. Twenty-five splendid projects. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 305 photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2513-7 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Food Art: Garnishing Made Easy John Gargone. Takes readers step-by-step through the process of creating garnishes that are stunning works of edible art. Straightforward, systematic instructions create salad border garnishes, salad and table centerpieces, fruit displays ranging from bird cages to watermelon wedding vases, and melon sculpture displays • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 371 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0- 7643-1960-0 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Food Presentation: Tips & Inspiration Michelle Valigursky. Food that looks beautiful does taste better! Learn hundreds of tips and tricks that restaurant chefs rely on to wow their guests. Basic techniques and or- dinary household items will become your tools in adding drama, interest, and impact to your food pre- sentation • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 234 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3481-8 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Garnish and Decorating Made Easy Georg Hartung. Tomato roses, fresh cheese on salad cucumbers, leek flowers, or melon stars; learn simple step-by-step directions on how to give the final, eye-catching touch to a buffet or to your dinner table. These “little works of art” will add to the appetizing flavor of any meal or dinner par- ty • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206mm) • 183 color imag- es•96pp.•978-0-7643-3932-5•PB•$19.99/£18.99 / $28.99 CAD Garnishing &Decorating: Ideas for all Seasons Georg Hartung, photographs by Thomas Schultze. Step-by-step instructions to pep up your small dish- es and finger food, for plates pleasing to the eye and your tastebuds • 8 1/8" x 9 1/8" (206 x 231mm) •120 color photos •88pp. •978-0-7643-4627-9•PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / $23.99 CAD Table Decoration: with Fruits and Vegetables Angkana and Alex Neumayer. Learn to create remark- able decorations for the table and garnishes for glass- es and plates. Many tips, 440 color photos, and prac- tical, step-by-step directions guide you through works of art that are easy to produce. Carve a flower, shape a fish, a bell, the sun, and the moon. You will be add- ing light touches to your meals from here forward • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 440 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3510-5•HC•$24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99CAD Coffee and Coffee Houses Ulla Heise. A com- prehensive history of the growth of the coffee in- dustry and the coffee house. This vastly informative, compellingly interesting, and beautifully illustrated work is a complement to everyone’s personal library • 9 5/8" x 10 3/4" (244 x 273mm) •107 b/wphotos, 9 drawings, 54 color photos • 246 pp. • 978-0-88740- 101-5 • HC • $35.00 / £31.99 / $50.00 CAD The Culinary Lives of John & Abigail Adams: A Cookbook Rosana Y. Wan. John and Abigail Adams enjoyed hearty, diverse cuisine in their native Massachu- setts, as well as in New York, Philadelphia, and Europe. They feasted on cod, roast turkey, mince pie, and plum pudding. These recipes, as well as dishes settlers brought from the Old World, such as roast duck, Strawberry Fool, and Whipt Syllabub, are included in this historical cook- book. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 40 images • 152 pp. • 978-0-7643-4669-9 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Folklore and Food: Folktales that center on fam- ily, food, and down-home cooking Theresa Bane and Cynthia Moore Brown. History is steeped in wonder- ful and strange folklore. Storyteller Cynthia Moore Brown tells 17 old-timey favorites, each one including a special home-style recipe connected to the story that is beauti- fully put to paper by mythologist, Theresa Bane. So bake a batch of biscuits or brew some Southern Brunswick Stew as you curl up to mighty exciting stories heard for gener- ations! • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 37 b/w images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-4220-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Herbs and Spices of the World Hermie Kranzdorf. The story of herbs and spices and their use for medici- nal and culinary purposes. Learn to grow, store, and use them in many fragrant and delicious recipes • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • • 205 pp. • 978-0-916838-84-3 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Tea & Taste: The Visual Language of Tea Tania M. Buckrell Pos with Foreword by Stephen Twining. Never before has there been a book focusing on the theme of tea as it relates to both the fine and decora- tive arts. Through more than 330 beautiful color im- ages and a fascinating and informative text, explore the history of tea and its impact on the development of porcelain, furniture, silver, and the other decorative arts. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 330+ color photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-1959-4 • HC • $35.00 / £31.99 / $50.00 CAD BAKING & CAKE DECORATION FOOD ART & PRESENTATION FOOD HISTORY 122 | WEDDINGS • BAKING & CAKE DECORATION • FOOD ART & PRESENTATION • Food History