Cookbooks for Christmas

is a great resource for Los Angeles, 8373 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA

Ellen Rose has a list of some of the best cookbooks of 2006:

• What to Drink with What You Eat:

  The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water, Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers

• Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenberg and Karen Pag

• Falling Cloudberries;

  Apples for Jam and

  Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book, all by Tessa Kiros

• Sous-Vide by Joan Rocca ($175.00)

• The Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider

• The 150 Best American Recipes

  : Indispensable Dishes from Legendary Chefs and Undiscovered Cooks by Fran McCullough & Molly Stevens

• Crazy Water Pickled Lemons

  : Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa by Diane Henry

• Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon

• Harlem Really Cooks

  : The Nouvelle Soul Food of Harlem by Sandra Lawrence

• In Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics

• Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Chef

• Michael Mina: The Cookbook

• Soul of a New Cuisine

  :A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa

• Happy in the Kitchen:

  The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating

• How I Learned to Cook:

  Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs

• Life is Meals: Food Lovers Book

• Essence of Chocolate:

  Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate

• Baking: From My Home to Yours

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• At Home with Magnolia

  : Classic American Recipes from the Owner of Magnolia Bakery by Allysa Torey

• Buttercup Bakes at Home: More Than 75 New Recipes from Manhattan's Premier Bake Shop for Tempting Homemade Sweets

• The New York Times Dessert Cookbook by Florence Fabricant

• The Sweet Life: Desserts from Chanterelle

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