Feast: Food to Celebrate Life

Celebrity 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.

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Giada's Family Dinners

Star 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.

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Barefoot Contessa at Home

Ina 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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Sandra Lee: Weeknight Wonders

Food Network's Sandra Lee has done it again with her compilation of recipes designed for the home cook. Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Weeknight Wonders: 139 Easy Fast Fix Dishes is a perfect complement to every busy cook's kitchen. Lee's mantra is that creative cooks can make delicious quick meals using 70% pre-made convenience products and 30% fresh ingredients.

Weeknight Wonders details 139 tasty recipes like Bacon-Blessed Meatloaf, Creole Chicken and Creamy Shrimp Fettucine. Most of the recipes are for beef, pork, pasta, poultry and seafood main dishes, although some sides and desserts are included as well.

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