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December 13, 2007
Cool stuff: Holiday cookbook recommendations
By Natalie Haughton
Daily News Food Editor
"Recipe of the Week: Cookies, 52 Easy Recipes for Year-Round Baking," by Sally Sampson (Wiley; $16.95), offers an assortment of stylish, irresistible creations. Several include color photos that make you want to bake. Tempting-sounding are Espresso Shortbread, German Chocolate Cookies, Cocoa Toffee Chunk Cookies and Almond Butter Oat Cookies to name a few.
"Mediterranean Harvest," by Martha Rose Shulman (Rodale; $39.95), features more than 500 vegetarian recipes from Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa and is a good addition for those desiring to eat vegetarian style. Her recipes, which use fresh seasonal produce and intriguing herbs and spices, will appeal to a wide range of cooks and diners. The author of more than 25 books, Shulman, who resides in L.A., includes cooking tips, a glossary of Mediterranean pantry staples and vivid descriptions of recipes and where they came from.
Posted by Steven Rosenberg at December 13, 2007 2:00 PM
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