French General Handmade Soirees by Kaari Meng, hardback published by Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-6833, price 29.95 US dollars from www.chroniclebooks.com
This beautifully made book has a quality feel with a cloth-bound spine. It’s all about how to entertain from making the perfect cup of coffee to embroidered jam covers and napkins. However, it is padded out with a lot of photographs, lovely photos nevertheless, but I would have liked to have seen more content. A few templates are given at the back of the book, to enable you to make the projects. Overall I thought this was a let down. Looks good but does not quite deliver.