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Christmas Cake excerpted from A Very Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for celebrating in style by Sam Dixon.

A Very Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for celebrating in style by Sam Dixon

For many readers, Christmas is a feast of meat, cheese and chocolate, but with more people turning to a plant-based diet, there is a gap in the market for a festive vegan cookbook. Use the fabulous recipes included in this book to make sure everyone can sit at the table and enjoy some fantastic Christmas cooking.

Christmas is a time for everyone to come together, where no one is left out, and where delicious food is shared amongst loved ones. This book is the perfect Secret Santa gift for your plant-based friends and family. Enjoy plant-based twists on all the iconic Christmas dishes and discover some new favourites. With easy-to-cook, fuss-free recipes packed with flavour and variety, A Very Vegan Christmas is the perfect holiday gift.

A Very Vegan Christmas: Plant-based recipes for celebrating in style by Sam Dixon is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

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Italian Christmas chocolate cake with chestnuts, hazelnuts and walnuts excerpted from Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to warm the soul by Diana Henry. Photography by Jason Lowe.

Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to warm the soul by Diana Henry

Diana Henry’s classic cookbook, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow, is now revisited, revised, and refreshed nearly 20 years after its first publication, with a new foreword by Nigel Slater and seven new recipes.

Full of comforting delights from cold-weather climates, it features recipes gathered from Diana’s travels to Scandinavia, the French and Italian Alps, Scotland, Ireland, and New England. This is irresistible food you’ll cook over and over again.

Choose Alpine dishes of melted cheese; autumnal pies and substantial winter salads; pastries from Viennese coffee houses; festive snow biscuits and – closer to home – Diana’s definitive recipe for warming Irish stew. Of course, there is also a recipe for Sugar-on-Snow as well.

These recipes will bring warmth to your heart as well as your home. And Diana’s evocative writing about both place and food make this a book well worth reading, as well as cooking from. (more…)