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Show us your spread!
Submit photos of your holiday table spread.
LIVE Q&A: Plan your New Year's Eve party menu with the Food staff at 1 p.m. Dec. Dec. 30 | The Home staff discusses holiday decorating and entertaining at 11 a.m. Dec. 31
Gift Guides
Cookbooks 2009
In the Food section's holiday cookbook guide this year, we're offering 32 choices that tell stories, relate history and can change your life, one meal at a time.
Home
Making a home look like Christmas
Designer Erin Paige Pitts's Chesapeake Bay house offers lots of good decorating ideas.
- Christmas carols mention holiday foods that make tasty temptations
- Transcript: Erin Paige Pitts discusses holiday decorating
- Tips on holiday decor
- Gallery: Home for the holidays
- The art of growing Christmas trees
- Christmas tree care
- A creative way to recycle wrapping paper
Holiday sweets
Holiday cookies 2009
This year, we offer 25 delicate, fruity, savory, colorful, gingerrific, vegan, buttery, giftable and easy-to-freeze treats to brighten the holidays.
Plan Ahead
Holiday Planning Guide
We show you how to plan a party and have fun doing it.
- Do's and don'ts to get you through your hosting duties
- Table talk: A conversation expert advises on how to handle holiday gatherings
- Modern crafts: How to make napkins using old family photographs
- The holiday kitchen: The prep work starts now
Entertaining
Holiday Dining Guide
It's time to take a good, hard look at your dining room and assess its readiness for holiday entertaining.
More Holiday Dining
- Break the bubbly barrier
- Wine: Pouring on the presents
- Say Cheese: Triple threats
- The big chill: Save your holiday leftovers with the help of our freezer guide
- Thanksgiving recipe central
- Guess who's coming to dinner
- Turkey carving 101
- Turkey reruns: Great recipes for leftovers
- Where to get Thanksgiving takeout: Your guide to getting a full meal to go.
- The potluck feast with an underground approach
- Gallery: Break out your fancy china — and show us!
- Graphic: Anatomy of a place setting
- Extreme beers find a following
- Graphic: A greener Thanksgiving
PHOTOS: Getty Images; Miki Duisterhof
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