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    Best Cookbooks of 2011

    Celia Sack is the owner of Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Celia Sack is the owner of Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco. She recommends her favorite cookbooks of 2011.

    The Mozza Cookbook by Nancy Silverton

    The Fearless Baker by Emily Luchetti and Lisa Weiss

    Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

    Tender by Nigel Slater

    Bi Rite Market's Eat Good Food by Sam Mogannam

    Super Natural Every Day by Heidi Swanson

    She also recommends two quarterly publications: Canal House Cooking and Lucky Peach.

    You can listen to outtakes from this conversation on the Good Food Blog.

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    Best Cookbooks of 2011, Holiday Beer, Glogg
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    2. 7:46Texas Drought
    3. 16:22The Baco Finds a Home at Baco Mercat
    4. 23:17Holiday Brews
    5. 31:35Best Cookbooks of 2011You’re reading this
    6. 40:25Artisan Pizza in Five Minutes a Day
    7. 48:54A Swedish Christmas
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    The full episode

    5 of 7
    Best Cookbooks of 2011, Holiday Beer, Glogg
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:46Texas Drought
    3. 16:22The Baco Finds a Home at Baco Mercat
    4. 23:17Holiday Brews
    5. 31:35Best Cookbooks of 2011You’re reading this
    6. 40:25Artisan Pizza in Five Minutes a Day
    7. 48:54A Swedish Christmas
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