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Nutty Sponge Cake recipe

From Gluten-Free Flavor Flours by Alice Medrich (Artisan)

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This lovely cake is perfect to have on hand for a little coffee klatch or a dinner party. Dress it up with some whipped cream and berries and a sprinkling of confectioners’ sugar on top.

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Wedding Soup Recipe

by Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali and Lidia's Celebrate Like an Italian (Knopf) cookbook giveaway
Cookbook Review by Tracey Zabar

Growing up outside of Boston, I went to many Italian weddings. The neighborhood Nonne (that’s the plural of Nonna) made the food, and this soup was always the first course. Lidia and Tanya’s recipe is the soup of my childhood, only richer and better.

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Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe by Naomi Josepher, Jon Payson, and Georgia Freedman and Cookbook Giveaway

Cookbook Review by Tracey Zabar

It’s my birthday in a few days, and I decided to start celebrating early with this recipe. It makes a dozen cupcakes, and a half batch of the frosting is plenty to top each little cake with a tall mound of chocolate sweetness. Oh my.

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Simple Tomato Harvest Sauce Recipe by Cara Mangini and Cookbook Giveaway

Simple Tomato Harvest Sauce Recipe by Cara Mangini from the Vegetable Butcher (Workman Publishing)
Cookbook Review by Tracey Zabar

When I was a child, my Sicilian grandfather made a similar tomato sauce, sometimes without garlic, using the mountain of the end-of-summer tomatoes from his garden. We called it salsa di pomodoro, or tomato sauce, never gravy—sorry Brooklyn.

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