Feast: Food to Celebrate Life

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Feast: Food to Celebrate LifeCelebrity chef Nigella Lawson details menus and recipes for all types of holidays in her cookbook, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life. Lawson details classic dishes, like roast turkey for Thanksgiving, but gets creative with additions like Gingerbread Stuffing and Allspice Gravy.

The "Kitchen Feasts" chapter makes every day a celebration with menus for a Scandi Supper for Six, The Ultimate English Sunday Lunch for Eight to Ten and Sunday Lunch After the Saturday Night Before. Seder supper ideas include Sephardi Roast Lamb, The Ashkenazi Alternative and Spinach with Pinenuts and Sultanas. Feast also includes everything you need to throw a creepy Halloween party from Slime Soup to Blood and Guts Potatoes and Ghoul Graveyard Cake.

Giada's Family Dinners

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Giada's Family DinnersStar of the Food Network's "Everyday Italian" and "Weekend Getaways," Giada DeLaurentis, shares her favorite family recipes in Giada's Family Dinners. Giada's Italian heritage and her effortless style shine through in her recipes. DeLaurentis combines fresh ingredients with Italian cooking techniques to come up with creative combinations that are as delicious as they are a feast for the eyes.

Enjoy classic Italian dishes like Chicken Vesuvio, Chicken Carbonara and Chicken Florentine, or try some of Giada's more adventurous recipes like Grilled Tuna Steaks with Roasted Cippollini Onions or Veal Scaloppine with Saffron Cream Sauce.

The Cake Mix Doctor

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The Cake Mix Doctor: Deluxe EditionAuthor Anne Bryn takes the art of baking to a new level in her cookbook, The Cake Mix Doctor: Deluxe Edition.Bryn's new cookbook teachers readers how to take advantage of the convenience of cake mixes, while giving them a fresh, homemade taste with the addition of just a few simple ingredients.

The more than 175 recipes include instructions to make Old-Fashioned Cola Cake, Grandma's Coconut Icebox Cake, Penuche Frosting and Brown Sugar Caramel Glaze.The book includes plenty of recipes for everything from layer cakes and bundt bakes to gingerbread houses and compotes.

Weber's Big Book of Grilling

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Weber's Big Book of GrillingWeber grill afficionados and grillmasters of all types will appreciate Weber's Big Book of Grilling. Its 416 pages and over 350 recipes cover everything from starters to desserts. The cookbook begins with a discussion about charcoal vs. gas grills and which is the best option for your skill level and lifestyle. Novice and advanced grillers will appreciate the sections covering direct vs. indirect cooking and how to tell when your food is cooked just right.

Readers will ditch the bottled barbecue sauce and stale rubs once they've read the extensive section on sauces, marinades and rubs. The recipes include a variety of dishes and techniques including Gingered Mussels, Stuffed Herbed Tenderloin and Peanut-Curry Flank Steak.

Rose's Christmas Cookies

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Rose's Christmas CookiesRose Levy Berenbaum has done it again with her compilation of classic Christmas cookies in Rose's Christmas Cookies. More than just a collection of recipes, this cookbook reads like an encyclopedia of Christmas cookie knowledge that is sure to delight novice and advanced bakers.

Forget plain old chocolate-chip cookies. Featured recipes include Springerle, Golden Biscotti, Lindzer Squares and Lora Brody's Rugelach. Fido has not been forgotten, and has his very own Bone a Fidos. Also included are instructions for making a Notre Dame Cathedral Gingerbread House.

Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen

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Two Meatballs in the Italian KitchenAuthors Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman's original cookbook, Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen, is a delightful collaboration between friends and business partners. Luongo, a native of Tuscany, and Strausman, a die-hard New Yorker, bring their own styles of traditional Italian and Italian-American cooking to the masses.Each chapter starts out with a little good-natured banter between the authors as they discuss their memories and views of each part of the meal.  

Recipes include American favorites, like Fettucine Carbonara and Sausage and Peppers, as well as Italian classics like Chicken Scarpariello, Braised Whole Veal Shanks with Rigatoni and Tuscan Seafood Saute.

Barefoot Contessa at Home

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Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over AgainIna Garten shares entertaining tips and recipes in Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again. She gives readers a glimpse into her life at her summer home in the Hamptons through anecdotes, photographs and the recipes that she makes when entertaining there.

Garten is an expert at making elegance appear effortless, and that ease is conveyed in the book. Even novice cooks will have no trouble following the recipes which utilize fresh, seasonal ingredients. Recipes include Warm Duck Salad, Lamb Kebabs with Couscous, Mustard-Roasted Potatoes and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing
 

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