All Purpose Cookbooks
Sara Foster's Casual Cooking
Retail: $35 (40% off!)
Long gone are the days when only "a meat and two veg" qualified as a real meal; today, says Sara Foster, "salads are meals, sandwiches and quesadillas qualify as respectable grown-up dinners (or breakfasts or lunches, for that matter), and eggs can be eaten any time of day.
A Twist of the Wrist
Retail: $29.95 (40% off!)
Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton has conquered the gourmet world as the original dessert chef at Spago and founder of the celebrated La Brea Bakery. Her recipes are legendary, innovative, and delicious.
Fine Cooking Annual
Retail: $34.95 (34% off!)
A year-end collection of the best recipes from Fine Cooking--appetizers, soups, sandwiches, pastas, all manners of main courses, a multitude of side dishes, and a host of fabulous desserts, organized by course and ingredient.
Cooking with Chocolate : More than 70 Entrées, Drinks,
Retail: $9.99 (30% off!)
The possibilities of chocolate as an ingredient are endless. Not just for dessert, it can be used to season meat and poultry, as well as sweetened and served in decadent cakes, sweet confectionaries, creamy ice cream, or hot and cold drinks.
In Search of Perfection
Retail: $34.95 (34% off!)
Fish and chips; roast chicken; spaghetti bolognese; steak and salad; pizza; sausages and mashed potatoes; black forest cake; and treacle tart and ice cream: all as good as they can possibly be.
Oldways Table
Retail: $32.50 (40% off!)
The Oldways Table compiles more than 15 years of groundbreaking work into an accessible food reference, filled with the flavors, preparations, and lessons of the world's great cuisines and cooks.
The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy
Retail: $14.95 (32% off!)
Ah, the dilemma of food-"comfort food" versus "temple food"; dessert versus salad; good versus bad. We"™ve all experienced it, the feeling that we want to indulge in something chocolate-y, but know we should go for something salad-y.
How to Cook Without a Book
Retail: $25 (30% off!)
Pam Anderson grew up watching her parents and grandparents make dinner every night by simply taking the ingredients on hand and cooking them with the techniques they knew. Times have changed.
More Home Cooking
Retail: $12 (20% off!)
Following the success of Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin returned to the kitchen to cook up this delightful mix of culinary recipes, advice and anecdotes.