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    Good Food

    2017's best cookbooks

    Each year, we read through hundreds of cookbooks. Some of them have beautiful, vibrant photographs. Some of them tell stories about cultural borderlands and family traditions. Some are just pure food porn.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Dec 7, 2017 • 1 min read

    Each year, we read through hundreds of cookbooks. Some of them have beautiful, vibrant photographs. Some of them tell stories about cultural borderlands and family traditions. Some are just pure food porn. This holiday season, Celia Sack from Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco has compiled her list of favorites. We are checking it twice.

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    2017's best cookbooks, holiday tea, and the wonders of panettone
    1. 0:002017's best cookbooksYou’re reading this
    2. 16:53Holiday tea
    3. 23:02Market Report: Farmers & fires
    4. 24:59An update from Ventura
    5. 28:32David Lebovitz on building a life in Paris
    6. 39:56Jonathan Gold orders the beans at Verlaine
    7. 46:14Panettone for all seasons
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    The full episode

    1 of 7
    2017's best cookbooks, holiday tea, and the wonders of panettone
    1. 0:002017's best cookbooksYou’re reading this
    2. 16:53Holiday tea
    3. 23:02Market Report: Farmers & fires
    4. 24:59An update from Ventura
    5. 28:32David Lebovitz on building a life in Paris
    6. 39:56Jonathan Gold orders the beans at Verlaine
    7. 46:14Panettone for all seasons
    Back to Good Food