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Gifts for the kitchen can easily cross the line, going from a thoughtful gesture to an inappropriate hint. For the holidays, beautiful cookbooks filled with inspiration should be your theme, leaving the overly practical cookbooks for the domestic chef to acquire on his or her own. Yet, when purchasing online, or fighting the holiday season rush, perusing the contents of cookbooks may not fit into your schedule.

Doing the work for you, we sifted through dozens of the year’s newest and hottest cookbooks to select a few that easily reach gift-worthy status for friends, family, or that gracious hostess:

My Sweet Vegan - Gifts are intended to indulge the senses, and nothing could possibly indulge us more than a gorgeous cookbook filled with only desserts and sweets. Whether your recipient is a prolific baker or an amateur cook with a voracious sweet tooth, the new young author, Hannah Kaminsky, has several recipes to delight them. Full color throughout, an enticing photo taken by the author herself accompanies every single recipe, almost unprecedented in these days of mass production.

The Book of Yogurt by Sonia Uvezian is the ultimate yogurt recipe cookbook and the perfect complement to your yogurt maker. This yogurt cookbook is a masterpiece and will have you spending many exciting hours in your kitchen whipping up mouth-watering dishes that will have your friends and family raving. Your other cookbooks may be sitting on the shelf collecting dust, but you will be constantly digging through The Book of Yogurt for fresh new yogurt ideas.

With her impeccable culinary skills, Sonia Uvezian offers hundreds of remarkable recipes. She tells the history of yogurt, how to make yogurt and how it is easily incorporated into all kinds of delicious recipes. Yogurt is consumed in a variety of ways in many cultures throughout the world. Several cultures use yogurt in sauces or as an ingredient to add a little zest to their favorite dishes. Sonia Uvezian’s yogurt recipes are simple to follow, use familiar ingredients from your kitchen and turn out great.

Several types of yogurt recipes are mentioned in this cookbook such as yogurt cheeses, dips, soups, sauces, salad dressings, cakes, cream cheese spreads and many more. Recipes for fish, poultry, pasta and vegetables are also included. Countless international dishes are offered from delicious Middle Eastern dishes to spicy Indian and Caribbean influences to the wonders of French foods. There are also frozen yogurt recipes included.

“The Bounty of Central Florida” by Valerie Hart

Although Hart’s cookbook incorporates Central Florida’s regional foods, I found that I am able to get the majority of the ingredients in Texas – even Key Limes. I only found one item, Wood Duck, that is solely regional, but Hart gives the option to substitute Quail or Cornish Hen.

Perusing “The Bounty of Central Florida” my attention was drawn to Key Lime Cheesecake. It is rich, but light, and full of flavor. The Pecan Crust makes an ideal base for this cheesecake. The Best Flaky Pie Crust is short and browns well, however, makes a larger batch than indicated. For brunch, the Low Fat Blueberry Coffee Cake is ideal and goes well with a freshly brewed cup of coffee. The Chiffon Cake took be me back to my childhood when my mother made one for every Sunday. Rich and creamy is the Hollandaise Sauce and very easy because it’s made in a blender giving it a guaranteed smooth texture.

Gourmet cakes are delectable desserts that can be bought in stores. It can be given as a gift, as a dessert, or for anniversaries, birthdays and other special celebrations. You can also bake one yourself and save a lot from it. You can look into recipe books to guide you.

Here are some of the famous gourmet cake recipe cookbooks:

Junior’s Cheesecake Cookbook

This cheesecake recipe cookbook made by Beth Allen and Alan Rosen contains 50 delectable recipes for cheesecakes, New York style.

This is based from the best cheesecake selling restaurant known as Junior’s Restaurant. They are now revealing their all-time favorite recipes so that everyone can enjoy their award winning cheesecakes. Some of the cheesecake recipes they included are the All Cream Cheese, On a Sponge Cake Crust, and No Sour Cream among others. This is from the Junior’s Original New York Cheesecake, which started everything, up to the cheesecakes with a twist in flavor like Rocky Road, Pumpkin Mousse and Banana Fudge.

It also includes small cheesecake recipes like Little Fellas to their newest creation, their Skyscraper Cheesecakes with layers of cake flavors like Lemon Coconut, Carrot Cake and Boston Cream Pie among others.

When is a rose no longer just a rose? My answer to that question is, when it becomes something amazing to eat and drink. I have always been enamored with my namesake. Roses are simply beautiful to look at. Their scent is tantalizingly exquisite. And when I take them and transform them into an incredible edible something truly magical happens.

Roses have been grown and adored for centuries. They were very popular with the ancient Romans. Rose petals were used in cooking to make a variety of puddings and sorbets. Roses were also used to flavor wine. As the influence of the ancient Romans spread to other cultures, the use of roses in cooking grew. Those influences can still been seen in many of the traditional dishes prepared in Turkey and the Middle East.

Since I am a professional chef, I am always looking for recipes and ingredients that I can use to create an exceptional dining experience for my customers.  Summer is almost in full bloom and I was looking for something that would be light, delicious and in harmony with the season. So, you can imagine how thrilled I was when I found The Rose Cookbook authored by Laura Denktash.

There are a great number of books that claim to be the Best Grilling Cookbook but there are only a few that are worth reading. The Best Grilling Cookbook should not only include recipes and cooking techniques; it should be a complete and in-depth guide to the art of grilling. Read on for the five grilling books that deserve to earn the title, The Best Grilling Cookbook:

1. The Thrill of the Grill: Techniques, Recipes, & Down-Home Barbecue by Christopher Schlesinger and John Willoughby

This book by chef Christopher Schlesinger and journalist John Willoughby is one of the best references for grilling. The authors are very clear on the distinctions between grilling and barbecue and they even describe the differences between the grilling and barbecue styles of most states in America. There are chapters upon chapters of recipes, cooking techniques, detailed instructions, and useful information. Pick up this book for the best reference for grilling.

2. Born to Grill: An American Celebration by Cheryl Alters Jamison & Bill Jamison

Way to man’s heart is his stomach. Cooking good food is an art. However, not all are blessed with the talent but one can always perfect it by watching cookery shows and reading cook books.

Gino D’Acampo’s Fantastico is a great book to learn different delicacies in simple ways. This book consists of some amazing recipes, straight from Gino D’Acampo’s kitchen. The best feature of this book is not only it has finger licking recipes but also a touch of Gino’s buffoonery that makes it a must read for all food lovers.

What makes this book an entertaining way of learning great cooking tips is apart from healthy food, Gino has guts to use cheese and cream that he is extremely fond of. The ingredients used by him are all easily available in local market.

Gino’s vegetarian section is wonderful. The recipes not only taste good but are also easy to prepare. He has included his specialties like the Italian-style Shepherd’s Pie and Cornish Pasties, Moroccan-style pasta and a Chinese-influenced Italian Broccoli Stir-fry. His chicken recipes are high on taste and are ready in just half-an-hour’s time.

While reading The China Study was the single biggest motivating factor in my adopting a vegan diet, “Veganomicon” was the book that has sustained me through the transition from meat-eater and has become a fixture in my kitchen.

Veganomicon, which bills itself (rightly so) as the Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, is the product of Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, who also wrote “Vegan with a Vengeance” and “Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World”. The pair also created the PostPunkKitchen (theppk.com) vegan recipe website, where you can find some teaser recipes from the Veganomicon book.

My partner and I have tried about 40 of the dishes in Veganomicon, some several times, and our copy of Veganomicon (covered with numerous post-it notes and splatters of various sauces) is never far from our sides or minds.

One of my goals was to attempt all of the 250 recipes in the book. However, we’ve enjoyed the recipes we’ve tried so much (our favorite being “Baja-Style Grilled Tempeh Tacos”), it’s difficult to find reasons to try new ones.

Among our many other favorite recipes are:

Most Italian recipe and cookbooks are not at all authentic. You might eat some tasty meals, but they most certainly won’t be anything like the cuisine of Italy.

I was amazed when I moved to Italy ten years ago to find that certain dishes like Pasta Alfredo don’t even exist in Italy. Ten years later I am much the wiser.

With the help of my Italian wife I have selected some of the most wonderful books on Italian cooking. These books we have selected using our ten years of experience of life in Italy. In our opinion they contain superb cooking tips, great recipes but that is not all…

Much more than just recipes they also offer a window onto a wondrous world. Explore a vibrant colorful country, a country where food is an essential part of the Italian way of life. These books leave you not only hungry and with a desire to start cooking, they also leave you with a hunger to journey to the villages, markets and country towns so lovingly portrayed.

This article focuses on one of my favorites:

A Passion for Piedmont: Italy’s Most Glorious Regional Table

Delicious food is always makes your mouth watering and why not? Different types of food are always liked but how to find different recipes. Here is the solution brings by Homeshop18 - an online shopping portal that gives you best of food recipe books online. Sanjeev Kaoor the well Known Chef in India has launched books for all type of cuisines. Homeshop18 is the platform where you can get Sanjeev Kapoor Recipes. Go on the Book section and select the choice of your. I have below mentioned some recipe book features.

Low Calorie Vegetarian Cooking - This set contains the following books:
1. Sanjeev Kapoor’s Low Calorie Vegetarian Cookbook
2. Sanjeev Kapoor’s Soups, Salads & Sandwiches Cookbook
3. Sanjeev Kapoor’s No Oil Vegetarian Cookbook
4. Sanjeev Kapoor’s Vegetarian Breakfast Cookbook

Contents of Each Book:
• Low Calorie Vegetarian Cookbook: A range of nourishing soups, salads, vegetable dishes, accompaniments and lip-smacking desserts
• Soups, Salads & Sandwiches: This exotic collection makes a healthy substitute for the daily dal-rice routine
• No Oil Vegetarian cook book: A delicious array of dishes all cooked without a drop of visible oil - a must in today’s fast-paced world
• Vegetarian Breakfast: A delightful collection of vegetarian breakfast recipes to give you that perfect start to a busy day