Best Cookbooks of 2007

Tim Fischer, manager of The Cook's Library in Los Angeles, rounds up the best cookbooks of the year. He recommends:

• Desserts by the Yard by Sherry Yard

• Elizabeth Falkner’s Demolition Desserts by Elizabeth Falkner

• Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich

• Dolce Italiano by Gina DePalma

• Lost Desserts by Gail Monaghan

• Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins and More by Carole Walter

• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler

• The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken by Laura Schenone

• The Sharper your Knife the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn

• The Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman

• The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones

• Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook by Bobby Flay

• Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking

• Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges by Jean Georges Vongerichten

• Jonathan Waxman’s A Great American Cook by Jonathan Waxman

• Made in Italy by Giorgio Locatelli

• Creole by Babette de Rozieres

Other resources:

• 1080 Recipes by Simone and Ines Ortega

• Cook with Jamie by Jamie Oliver

• Jamie at Home by Jamie Oliver

• Moro East by Samantha & Samuel Clark

• Week in Week Out by Simon Hopkinson

• The River Cottage Fish Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

• Angela Hartnett’s Cucina by Angela Hartnett

Music break: Going Down South by Hutcherson & Land