The Perfect Basket: How to Make a Fabulous Gift Basket for Any Occasion

by Diane Phillips

Book Overview

This unique guide for homemade and heartfelt gifts offers recipes and ideas for creating special occasion baskets. Phillips signature dishes include Carrot Cake Mix, Sundried Tomato Pesto, Creole... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558322949
• ISBN13: 9781558322943
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Basket

This book has a lot of good ideas and is well photographed. It will make a good addition to a home based basket business library You always need more ideas.

Such a Creative Resource

I really like this book, with all the wonderful ideas for gift baskets. Even thought her basket ideas are adorable, I actually like the mix recipes best. She has an older book, The Perfect Mix, that is also a keeper, with great recipes for easy gifts.

NOT about statring a business!! For personal use only.

Maybe I didn't read the editorial comments correctly before I ordered this book, but it is not what I wanted. I was looking for information about starting a gift basket *business*. This book does not cover that topic. It is a very nice book about making baskets as gifts for friends, neighbors, teachers, service people, etc. There are some full-color pictures, though not of every basket idea. The resource list is strictly retail. Recipes are included for basket items, a no-no when you're selling baskets unless you have a licensed commercial kitchen. So, while the book might jump-start your brain for basket ideas as gifts, it is not a business book. My problem, not the book's.

Excellent ideas on gifts - innovative.

Though pictures are nice, they can inhibit one's own creative thought. This book gives well-organized lists of gift baskets for a large variety of people: college students, various individual sports, even a French basket.

Great for non-creative types like Me.

When it comes to "creative gift ideas," I have none. This has given, and continues to give me great gift basket ideas. Everyone now thinks that I always bring the coolest gifts when I put together a basket like any in this book. I also recommend Diane Phillips' "The Perfect Mix."