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Recipe for Roasted Pepper Sauce with Eggplants, Tomatoes, and Olives and product giveaway

Recipe for Sugo alla Siracusana/Roasted Pepper Sauce with Eggplants, Tomatoes, and Olives from The Best Pasta Sauces: Favorite Regional Italian Recipes (Ballantine Books/Random House) by Micol Negrin with photographs by Dino De Angelis

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

The Best Pasta Sauces book is jam-packed with amazing recipes from all over Italy. Micol Negrin and Dino De Angelis run Rustico Cooking, a terrific culinary school in midtown Manhattan. This recipe is my absolute favorite for dinner on a cool, late-summer evening.

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Pure Delicious Fresh Tomato Salad with Basil-Mint Vinaigrette

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Pam Krauss Books/Penguin Random House is offering a cookbook giveaway. 

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This delightful recipe is perfect for your bounty of heirloom tomatoes and herbs.

Recipe for Pluot Clafoutis from Will It Skillet by Daniel Shumski (Workman Publishing) Cookbook recipe and giveaway

Cookbook Recipe for Pluot Clafoutis and cookbook giveaway (continental U.S. only, please)

by Tracey Zabar

Excerpted from Will it Skillet by Daniel Shumski (Workman Publishing). Copyright © 2017

Cast iron skillets are all the rage again. You can make this clafoutis with pluots or another stone fruit for a sweet dessert.

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Recipe for Blackberry Basil Bruschetta and Cookbook Giveaway

Recipe and cookbook Review

The Love & Lemons Cookbook
By Jeanine Donofrio

Cookbook Review by Tracey Zabar

This book is lovely and the recipes are amazing. Here is one for your next dinner party.

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Recipe for Bacon Onion Butter from Steven Raichlen's Barbecue Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades--Bastes, Butters & Glazes

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

I keep this butter in a jar in the refrigerator and add it to burgers, tomato sauce, and pizza toppings.



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Excerpted from Barbecue Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades--Bastes, Butters & Glazes, Too by Steven Raichlen (Workman Publishing). Copyright © 2017. Photographs by Matthew Benson