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• Everyday Grand

  Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments

  Adams, Jocelyn Delk

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  Jazzed up Southern comfort food with enough glitz and glam to suit your holiday, weekend, or weeknight meals.

• America's Test Kitchen. Food Gifts

  150+ Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents

  Scott, Elle Simone,

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  Sometimes the best gift is something you can eat. America's Test Kitchen brings you more delicious recipes that are perfect for gifting and shipping to your loved ones and secret Santas.

• That Cheese Plate Wants to Party

  Festive Boards, Spreads, and Recipes With the Cheese by Numbers Method

  Mullen, Marissa,

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  People love cheese boards. Pick this book up for dozens of ideas and diagrams to help any host or hostess make a dreamy cheeseboard for their next holiday party.

• How to Cook Everything

  Simple Recipes for Great Food

  Bittman, Mark,

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  This book is large, but it is bursting with information. There are hundreds of tips and tricks to help a novice home cook approach any ingredient with confidence.

• Mind Over Batter

  75 Recipes for Baking as Therapy

  Hazan, Jack (Psychotherapist)

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  The holidays are stressful, and sometimes baking is the only activity that will soothe your anxious and weary mind. The author, who is a professional psychotherapist, personally endorses baking as therapy.

• America's Test Kitchen. The Complete Autumn & Winter Cookbook

  550+ Recipes for Warming Dinners, Holiday Roasts, Seasonal Desserts, Breads, Food Gifts, and More

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  America's Test Kitchen has done it again with a monster sized collection of recipes perfect for the season. Craving a cozy squash soup? Need a centerpiece protein for Christmas dinner? ATK has you covered!

• The Easy Christmas Cookie Cookbook

  60+ Recipes to Bake for the Holidays

  Pellegrinelli, Carroll

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  Pick this up if you need some easy to make, delicious cookies for your upcoming cookie swap, and let us know how the bacon and eggnog cookies turned out. This book has the classics covered as well as a few twists.

• The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book

  100 Tasty, Healthy, Low-prep Recipes for When You Just Don't Want to Cook

  Brantley, Alyssa,

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  This is for the days in between the big events. Most of these recipes only require 15 minutes to prep and make.

• The Everlasting Meal Cookbook

  Leftovers A-Z

  Adler, Tamar,

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  Hosting and holidays mean leftovers, and there are only so many turkey sandwiches you can make. Use this book to transform your leftovers into something new, exciting, and still delicious.

• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

  Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

  Nosrat, Samin

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  This book is at the top of my wish list. Samin's cooking philosophy suggests that any dish can be elevated by balancing these four elements, and she gives dozens of recipes to implement her strategies. Her recipe for Buttermilk Chicken is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Food Lab

  Better Home Cooking Through Science

  López-Alt, J. Kenji

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  If you were also raised on Alton Brown, J Kenji Lopez is the natural progression. His approach to food is scientific, but his techniques are sure to level up your home cooking.

• Cook's Illustrated Baking Book

  Baking Demystified With 450 Foolproof Recipes From America's Most Trusted Food Magazine

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  This book complies hundreds of tested recipes from cookies and cakes to breads and pizzas. If you need a baked good for your next holiday gathering, look to Cook's, one of the most long standing food magazines.

• Sauces

  Herrick, Holly

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  If you haven't been to a Culinary Center Mother Sauce program yet, this book is the next best option. The author is a Le Cordon Blue graduate who will teach you everything about the five classic French Mother Sauces that can elevate any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Barefoot Contessa Foolproof

  Recipes You Can Trust

  Garten, Ina,

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  Ina Garten is a staple figure in my childhood, and she taught millions of people the importance of good food made easy. This collection of recipes are all winners, tried and tested a thousand times over. Check out any Barefoot Contessa…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vegan Holiday Cookbook

  Festive Plant-based Meals and Desserts for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Table

  Culpin, Katie,

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  Want that classic holiday dish without the animal products? This book has veganized all the staples of a holiday table, which will please any invited plant-eater.

• Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook

  Revised and Updated on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of the Jewish Holiday Kitchen

  Nathan, Joan

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  This book is a tour of Jewish holidays told through food. From matzah ball soup to Algerian chicken tagine, this book honors the traditions and heritage of Jewish holiday food on top of being delicious.

• The 12 Days of Christmas Cookbook. 2016

  Currington, Rebecca,

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  Bring the classic Christmas carol to life with "Soups a Simmering" and "Sides a Steaming". Partridge in a pear tree sold separately.

• Platters and Boards

  Beautiful, Casual Spreads for Every Occasion

  Westerhausen, Shelly

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  Anyone else remember the butter board food trend of 2022? Big tasting spreads and charcuterie boards have never gone out of style, but check this book out if your spread needs a little spicing up this year.

• Gluten-free Holiday Cookies

  Medrich, Alice,

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  Everyone deserves cookies! Explore the world of gluten-free flour flours with these tested recipes, and if your Santa is gluten-intolerant, I recommend the Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies.

• Festive Holiday Recipes

  103 Must-make Dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve Everyone Will Love

  Gundry, Addie,

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  There are almost 20 holidays in the months of November and December. Multiply that by the numbers of meals in a day, and even the most inspired and efficient home cook will be hung out to dry. Save yourself some stress and pick anything…Read moreRead more of this annotation