Tuesday, Dec. 21 Off the Menu - Best Cookbooks of 2010 & Last Minute Holiday Gifts For ‘Foodies'

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Off the Menu - Best Cookbooks of 2010 & Last Minute Holiday Gifts For ‘Foodies:’ Despite the fact that a quick Google search will produce literally thousands of recipes in just seconds, the good old fashioned cookbook is alive and well. As part of our Best of 2010 series, our regular Off The Menu contributor Corby Kummer joins us to dish about his favorite cookbooks of the year and while we’re at it he’ll have some last minute holiday gift ideas for the “foodie” in your life.

Corby’s Best Cookbooks of 2010
Heart of the Artichoke, Tanis
Around My French Table, Greenspan
What I Eat, Menzel and D’Alusio
As Always, Julia (These are letters of Julia Child and her editor and friend Avis DeVoto, which I review in this Sunday’s Times Book Review Section)
Flour, Joanne Chang
Fannie’s Last Supper, Chris Kimball
Ideas in Food, Kamozawa and Talbot
Keys to Good Cooking, McGee

Corby’s “last-minute” holiday gift guide
Fancy Salts
Dish Washable Kitchen Shears
Burr coffee grinder
Corby’s Joy of Coffee
Cuisinart countertop oven
Silicone mats and other silicone kitchen products
Adam Simha knives
Something homemade— dark-chocolate meringues or caramels
A subscription to an actual print magazine

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