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Recipe for Slow-Roasted Salmon with Sunchoke Puree and Sweet-Sour Onions from Chasing Flavor by Dan Kluger and Nick Fauchald, photographs by Evan Sung

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

I really love this book. It has recipes grouped into meals, so if you are making the pot roast, you can incorporate some of the braising liquid into broccoli rabe as the side. Make your own ricotta cavatelli, then add a mixture of veggies and spices, and cover with a cheese sauce. I am having fun creating salads and mixing and matching the lovely dressings: Celery Root, Fennel, Pear, and Apple Salad with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette. Throw in the roasted beets of another salad recipe, add the Meyer lemon vinaigrette, and this refreshing salad is my new favorite. Next up: a grandma pizza pie.

Excerpted from CHASING FLAVOR: Techniques and Recipes to Cook Fearlessly © 2020 by Daniel Kluger. Photography © 2020 by Evan Sung. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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Recipe for Roasted Tomato Soup from Hawksworth by David Hawksworth, Jacob Richler and Stéphanie Nöel

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful book has inspired me to go in the kitchen and add to my recipe repertoire. The local farm markets still have some fabulous melons, perfect for the simple watermelon, cherry tomato & Macedonian feta salad. The book also has detailed instructions for preparing gravlax from a side of salmon, a yummy pea soup with lobster on the side, Thai fish curry, a mile-high burger with homemade onion rings, and a very enticing lemon tart. And about a million other recipes that I can’t wait to dig into. First up, this tomato soup for a cozy dinner as the evenings turn cold.

Excerpted from Hawksworth by David Hawksworth, Jacob Richler and Stéphanie Nöel. Copyright © 2020 David Hawksworth Photography by Clinton Hussey 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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Recipe for Spaghetti alla Puttanesca from Old World Italian by Mimi Thorisson, photographs by Oddur Thorisson

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful book holds a culinary trip to Italy, with a little bit of France thrown in. Try this pasta dish that is easy to throw together and get on the table. There is also a recipe for torta pasqualina that is right out of my childhood. I remember my eighty-year-old cousin, Grace, cutting one open to reveal Swiss chard or maybe escarole, with a perfectly cooked hard boiled egg in the center of each slice. It was so beautiful that you barely knew, as a child, you were eating a green vegetable. I never asked her for the recipe, because I was afraid of her. Now, thanks to this book, I have it!

Reprinted from Old World Italian. Copyright © 2020 by Marie-France Thorisson. Photographs copyright © 2020 by Oddur Thorisson. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House.

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Recipe for Lemon Bars from The Good Book of Southern Baking by Kelly Fields with Kate Heddings, photographs by Oriana Koren

This wonderful book will inspire you to practice your pumpkin pie making skills. Then, on to cornbread, a crumby, fruity coffee cake, some puddings of the bananas Foster and warm chocolate varieties, buttermilk pie, a Creole cream cheesecake, and some pretty wonderful berry treats. Or try these amazing lemon bars. Go in the kitchen and bake!

Reprinted with permission from The Good Book of Southern Baking by Kelly Fields with Kate Heddings copyright ©2020 published by Lorena Jones Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC Photographs copyright © Oriana Koren

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Recipe for Veal Schnitzel and Green Potato Salad from Florence from Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & Stories from Around the World by Tori Haschka. Photographs by Isobel Wield. Illustrations by Andrea Turvey.

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful book, filled with gorgeous photos and illustrations, will take you around the world, via your own kitchen. So many interesting, new nibbles made me happy: Koshary from Cairo, Pastilla from Marrakech, Keftedes and Tzatziki from Santorini, and Remoulade from Reykjavik. There are some twists on old favorites too, like Peach Melba Pie from Iowa and Guacamole from Baja. These recipes for schnitzel and potato salad are not your typical Italian fare, but they are perfect for an early fall dinner.

Excerpted with permission from Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & Stories from Around the World (Ryland Peters & Small)

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Recipe for Poule au Pot from The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This cookbook features an amazing assortment of chicken soups from around the world—Tom Kha Gai, a gingery Thai noodle soup; Chicken Mafé, a West African peanut-flavored, spicy soup with eggplant and sweet potato; Cuban Ajiaco, a stew of chicken and beef; and a perfumed stew from Peru. Try Egyptian Kubbeh Hamusta; and dumplings from Germany. This French chicken in a pot is close to the classic Jewish penicillin. Spice it up or down, but try it, and also try Skink, a creamy Irish concoction with leeks and carrots; and Pennsylvania Dutch Rival, a chicken-filled corn chowder.

Recipe excerpted with permission The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis, published by Hardie Grant Books

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Recipe for Cream of Corn Soup from Soupology by Drew Smith

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful cookbook bases the recipes on six basic broths and goes on from there. Then you add veggies, spices, and all sorts of ingredients. Try the carrot, rice and potato soup, chicken tom yum, beef, shrimp or miso broth, minestrone, and onion soup. Here’s a lovely recipe using the last of this season’s corn from your farmers’ market. It's lovely and delicious.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Soupology by Drew Smith, photographs by Tom Register (Rizzoli).

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Recipe for 24-Karat Cookies from Cookies are Magic by Maida Heatter

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Here are some yummy cookies, filled with honey, to start your sweet new year. The rest of the book will keep you baking all fall. Fill your cookie jar with Pecan Butter Pillows, Maida’s Mother’s Gingersnaps, and Cookie Kisses.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Cookies are Magic by Maida Heatter (Little Brown and Company).

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Recipe for Mozzarella with Celery, Olives and Pine Nuts from A Table for Friends by Skye McAlpine

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This lovely and inspiring book had me experimenting with salads all week. My favorite, so far: one with tuna and fennel. A few interesting chicken recipes, one for pot roast,and another for chocolate chestnut meringue pie are next on my list.

Reprinted from A Table for Friends by arrangement with Bloomsbury Publishing. Copyright © 2020, Skye McAlpine.

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Recipe for Glazed Plum Tart from Women in the Kitchen by Anne Willan, recipe by Edna Lewis

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Whip up this simple, amazing purple plum tart, pop it in the oven, and curl up with this book. I am always interested in people’s favorite recipes and cookbooks. Of course I am. This one is bursting with stories of women, some famous, some not, but all interesting. The recipe selection is wonderful. Check out Alice Waters' garlic soufflé, Marcella Hazan's polenta and tomato recipes, Julia Child's Coq au Vin, and the original Fannie Farmer will show you how to cook scallops and make a somewhat scary melted cheesy thing called English Monkey.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Women in the Kitchen by Anne Willan (Scribner).

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