The Official Disney Parks Celebration Cookbook: 101 Festival Recipes from the Delicious Disney Vault - by Pam Brandon & The Disney Chefs (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Featuring 40 brand-new favorites"--Cover.

Book Synopsis

This collection of 101 official recipes from Disney park festivals features some of the most delicious and adored foods, so you can create Disney magic at home!

40 of these 101 recipes from the Disney chefs are brand-new releases!

While festivals at the Disney parks are delightfully orchestrated days of live entertainment, art, culture, and beauty, for many guests, the food is the star. These festivals offer a chance to share a small plate or taste a new flavor with family and friends--accompanied by some Disney magic. Now celebrate all that is joyous about festivals across the Walt Disney World Resort and the Disneyland Resort.

Each recipe is just right for preparing in home kitchens and has been tested by real home chefs. With gorgeous food photography and advice from the Disney chefs, this cookbook offers ideas for appetizers, small plates, main courses, sides, beverages, and sweet treats.

Here's a sampling of what awaits inside:

• French Onion Mac & Cheese
• Pumpkin Chai Tea and Caramel Milkshake
• Smoked Salmon Tartare and Potato Biscuit
• Spaceship Earth Cookies with Salted Caramel Ganache
• Summer Berry Pudding

Festivals featured in the book:
Walt Disney World Resort

• EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival
• EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays
• EPCOT International Festival of the Arts
• EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival

Disneyland Resort

• Disney Festival of Holidays at Disney California Adventure, including the Disney ¡Viva Navidad! celebration
• Lunar New Year at Disney California Adventure
• Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival

Review Quotes

"Brandon's (Disneyland: Recipes & Stories from the Happiest Place on Earth) new cookbook is something to celebrate. She and the Disney chefs have gone deep into the theme parks' vaults to bring back favorite memories--and meals--from festivals, beginning with EPCOT's earliest iterations of the International Flower & Garden Festival, which blossomed the same year as the first International Festival of Holidays, followed a few years later by the International Food & Wine Festival. Home cooks can stir up old memories with recipes for everything from elegant dishes (duck and dumpling) to California fusion, including a Korean fried chicken slider and simple yet gorgeous golden beet salad, to the happy endings--Celebration Chocolate Fudge brownies, maple-bacon whoopie pies, and even a gluten-free buttermilk cake. While most of these recipes are fairly complex, the ingredients are accessible and the instructions are clear. VERDICT A book that readers will pick up as much for the photos and the recipe headnotes, with history of when the dishes were served at the Disney theme parks, as for the recipes themselves. This will whet Disney fans' appetite for a return visit."
--Emily Bowles, Library Journal (LJ), October 2024 issue

About the Author

PAM BRANDON started her Disney career as a senior publicist with Walt Disney World Press & Publicity in 1987 in a small office upstairs in City Hall in the Magic Kingdom. She has worked on public relations food and beverage projects for Disney parks around the globe for more than thirty years, including the openings of Disneyland Paris, Shanghai Disney Resort, and more. In addition, Brandon was a contributing editor to the Birnbaum's Disney guidebooks for more than ten years, covering the Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, and Disney Cruise Line ships. She was the first food writer for the Disney Parks Blog and has authored more than twenty cookbooks for Disney.