Food & Wine Annual Cookbook: An Entire Year of Recipes

For the second year in a row the Food and Wine people have put out a really outstanding cookbook. What I particularly like are the number of recipes that are creative, yet can be done with ingredients from a typical grocery store. Here are some I found particularly appealing: Thai Ground Pork Salad, Root Vegetable Gratin, Shrimp and Feta Stuffed Zucchini, Penne with Asparagus, Sage, and Peas, Apricot Basil Shortbread Tart, and Roasted Yucatan Chicken marinated in Citrus Juice and Ancho Chili. Since this book can be purchased so cheaply from outsourced sellers, I would call it a real bargin.

While I agree with the previous reviewer about the irritating business practices regarding the marketing of this book, I have to disagree that it "stinks." These Food and Wine annuals are wonderful - they take all the year's recipes together and place them in one handy volume, and most of the recipes that I've tried from the 1999 to the 2010 annual have been really, really good, if not outstanding. I made one baked bean dish that was an absolute dud, but that's about it.