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How Does Ochef Make Money?	Joy of Cooking It took us almost five years to realize we wouldn't be happy with only a classic Thunderbird — classic cookbooks have to keep up with the times, too. An Ochef Top-100 Cookbook Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Café Vegetarian or not, Mollie Katzen serves up more than 300 breakfast recipes — some a little unusual — but most right in the mainstream and most delicious Not Afraid of Flavor The chef and pastry chef of North Carolina's Magnolia Grill tell you how to great food — with plenty of flavor and plenty of ingredients! Local Flavors Another magnum opus from Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, this book is a celebration of farmers' markets across the country Brilliant Food Tips & Cooking Tricks Part reference book (with 5,037 tips on foods from A to Z) and part cookbook (with more than 900 recipes) Semi-Homemade Cooking A tagline that "Nothing is Made From Scratch" will turn off some cooks, but serve as a beacon of hope for many others It Must've Been Something I Ate More enlightenment, more education, more humor from Vogue's food writer Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything Joy of Cooking: All About Party Foods & Drinks How would it be if all the party recipes were extracted from Joy of Cooking, jazzed up with good photos, and compiled in one slender, manageable volume? That's just what this is.... Nigella Bites Chatty? Oh yes. But entertaining, and with a huge, eclectic collection of delicious recipes from British cooking diva Nigella Lawson A Sweet Quartet An in-depth study of four baking building blocks: sugar, almonds, eggs, & butter, with history, narrative, and a small, eclectic selection of recipes From the Cooking School at La Campagne A really well-crafted book on the cooking of Provençe, from the New Jersey restaurant and cooking school Art of Chocolate Suitable for everyone from novice to advanced, and nicely manages to avoid the two sins that plague most chocolate cookbooks Chef on a Shoestring Big-city chefs try to work with a television producers’ idea of a limited budget — how hard is that? The results, though, are pretty good The Chocolate Bible If you want to learn about chocolate, you could do a lot worse than to ask a bunch of Austrian, Swiss, and German pastry chefs Dinner Tonight! Here’s help for those of us who are not blessed with the natural ability to throw a few things together and produce a smashing dinner night after night Everything You Pretend to Know About Food and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask Fun food facts to know and tell at parties — not comprehensive, not indexed (sadly), well worth reading Got Milk? Does the world need another cookie book? At least as much as it needs another advertising campaign — especially if the book is good Jill Prescott’s Ecole de Cuisine Home cooking is all about compromise. Jill Prescott disagrees, but manages to turn out a pretty great cookbook, all the same Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Julia Child and Public Television were recently reunited for a last walk down memory lane. The companion book will last much longer, though A Little German Cookbook German cooking may be the antithesis of nouvelle cuisine, and this tiny book provides a sampler of the hearty flavors served from Hamburg to Munich A Little Maine Cookbook It is the ingredients rather than the recipes that give this tiny book the flavor of Maine Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres Handbook Ms Stewart finds her culinary soul-mate in the world of hors d’oeuvres — elegant, appealing, and sometimes so fussy — but the result is a truly great cookbook Matthew Kenney's Mediterranean Cooking Lots of people muck up Mediterranean cooking when they bring it to these shores, but Matthew Kenney’s modifications seem just right One-Pot Cakes Can a scratch cake be as quick, simple, and neat as a boxed mix? This book wants you to think so Oxford Companion to Food Can a single 6-lb. book on the world of food be all things to all people? Almost! The Pasta Bible If pasta were my religion, this would definitely be my bible The Quotable Cook Words of wisdom, thoughts to inspire, silly nothings, and perhaps a little good advice fill the pages of this collection of food-related notable quotes Simple to Spectacular Vongerichten and Bittman take a basic recipe and provide four variations for every occasion — from simple (well, fairly simple) to sophisticated Strictly Steak Is there still room in the world for a steak cookbook? We say there is! Sweet Celebrations Martha Stewart may have met her match — at least when it comes to wedding and party cakes. But that doesn’t necessarily help me out… The Top One Hundred Italian Rice Dishes You may not need 100, but in Diane Seed’s collection of the best Italian rice dishes, you’ll definitely find some you need The Ultimate Cheesecake Cookbook Cheesecakes come around rarely these days, so when they do, make sure they are special. A crack in the top is discretionary The Way to Cook Who in the world has the stature to call a cookbook The Way to Cook? Perhaps only the grande dame of cooking herself — Julia Child.
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