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Peppered Pan-Roasted Olives from Cheese Boards to Share Deck: 50 Cards for Stunning Boards & Platters to Style at Home by Thalassa Skinner

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This boxed set of cards has dozens of beautiful photographs of food to place on boards. Delight your guests with these cheese selections and some yummy roasted olives. Next on my list: lovely boards with cow, goat, buffalo, and sheep's milk cheese; a picnic with figs, honey, and blood oranges, and of course cheese; and a recipe for homemade pickles. And then a flatbread with tomatoes; and some nectarine and Serrano pepper paste.

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Recipe for Peppered Pan Roasted Olives excerpted with permission from Cheese Boards to Share Deck: 50 Cards for Stunning Boards & Platters to Style at Home by Thalassa Skinner, Photography by Erin Kunkel © Ryland Peters & Small

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Recipe for Raspberry Squares from Summer Fruit Pastries

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Start with these sweet raspberry squares from this perfectly lovely baking cookbook. Then, move on to summer fruit jam tarts. Next on my list: tarte au citron and a lovely cherry pie.

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Recipe excerpted with permission from Summer Fruit Pastries: 60 Bright and Fresh Recipes for Tartlets, Eclairs, Roulades, Pies and More, Ryland Peters & Small 2023. Recipe by Bronte Aurell. Photograph by Peter Cassidy (c) Ryland Peter & Small

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Recipe for Lemon Blueberry Bars from Anna Olson's Baking Wisdom by Anna Olson

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This baking cookbook is lovely and filled with instructional photos. It was a hard decision—what to make first? Lemon Blueberry Bars won. And it is indeed a winner. Next on my list: savory onion, herb & parmesan upside-down cake; a sweet creamsicle cake; and cranberry lollipops. And an adorable pink lemonade Eton mess. And chocolate pudding. And then, learning to make banofee crème brûlée. Sugar heaven.

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Excerpted with permission from Anna Olson’s Baking Wisdom: The Complete Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make You a Better Baker (with 150+ Recipes) by Anna Olson Copyright © 2023 Olson Food Concepts Inc. Photography by Janis Nicolay. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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