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Recipe for Vanilla Sablés from How to Bake by Nick Malgieri

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This classic cookbook, written by my amazing baker-friend, is full of all sorts of recipes and tips. It’s time to start baking your holiday cookies. First up: this ultimate, simple, sugary cookie. Then bake the chocolate spice cookies. They will whip up quickly. After that, his decorated gingerbread cookies, the chocolate version of the sablés, and a few dozen fig bars and hermits. Fill tins to send off to your loved ones and be sure to save one for yourself.

Recipe excerpted with permission from How to Bake by Nick Malgieri (Dover Books)

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Recipe for Asparagus al Cartoccio with Butter, Mint, and Parmesan from Chi Spacca by Nancy Silverton with Ryan DeNicola and Carolynn Carreño photographs by Ed Anderson

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

I am having fun working my way through this incredible book. Step-by-step instructions and photos for Chi Spacca’s famous focaccia di recco, a cheese-filled piece of heaven. Salt-baked fish, rack of lamb, coffee-rubbed beef, roasted beets and cauliflower (two different dishes, one happy cook), and key lime cheesecake are next on my list. And a banana cream pie with caramel sauce and bittersweet chocolate shavings.

Excerpted from Chi Spacca: A New Approach to American Cooking by Nancy Silverton with Ryan DeNicola and Carolynn Carreno. Copyright © 2020 by Nancy Silverton. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Recipe for Roast Turkey with Clementines and Garlic from Miss Maggie’s Kitchen by Héloïse Brion

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Start preparing for Thanksgiving. As a young bride, I practiced my turkey skills three fall Sundays in a row on some chickens. When it came time for my first holiday as a hostess, I was ready! This lovely book has many recipes for entertaining, such as mini vegetable pies, plank salmon, and an apple cinnamon galette. Enjoy.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Miss Maggie’s Kitchen by Héloïse Brion, photographs by Christophe Roué

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Recipe for Veggie Lo Mein from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This book inspired me to get in the kitchen and make my own dumplings and buns. I am working my way through the ramen and rice noodle section. Soon, I will try Biang Biang Noodles and a lovely rainbow salad. The vegetarian Lo Mein recipe is easy and fun to whip up on a cold fall evening.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst, photography by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson, published by Quadrille.

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