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Fall Cookbook Preview 2011

The ten essential cookbooks of autumn.

By Julia Kramer and David Tamarkin

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    Gobs of cookbooks come out in autumn. Here are the ten you’ll actually use.

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    All About Roasting
    Molly Stevens
    (W.W. Norton, $35)
    November


    Five hundred-plus pages of appealing recipes from a veteran teacher make a single, simple cooking technique feel like the only one you’ll ever need.

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    The Apple Lover’s Cookbook
    Amy Traverso
    (Norton, $30)
    September


    With more than 300 pages of apple facts and recipes (from apple pancakes to apple risotto), maybe The Apple Obsessive’s Cookbook would have been a better title. But at this time of year, isn’t everybody an apple obsessive?

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    Beta Cocktails
    Kirk Estopinal and Maksym Pazuniak
    (Blurb, $18)Available now


    A self-published collection of original cocktail recipes, selected by the guys behind the very-limited-edition Rogue Cocktails; contributions from Chicago bartenders Mike Ryan, Paul McGee and Stephen Cole add hometown pride.

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    Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food
    Sam Mogannam and Dabney Gough
    (Ten Speed Press, $32.50)
    October


    A precious and awesome Bay Area–grocery store’s guide to how to shop for food and what to do with said food when you get home. It’s kind of like Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating, only more accessible, better designed and with more enticing recipes.

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    Girl in the Kitchen
    Stephanie Izard and Heather Shouse
    (Chronicle, $30)
    October


    TOC’s Shouse follows up her first book, Food Trucks, with this compendium of Izard recipes. Because the concept for the book is home-cooking (French gnocchi with watercress sauce, etc), you won’t find the recipe for Girl & the Goat’s pig face. But don’t worry—that’s what the next book is for.

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    Momofuku Milk Bar
    Christina Tosi
    (Clarkson Potter, $35)
    October


    Tosi—the genius pastry chef who combined butterscotch chips, chocolate, potato chips and minipretzels into a Compost Cookie—shares her cult recipes for homemade junk food.

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    Rustic Italian Food
    Mark Vetri
    (Ten Speed, $35)
    November


    It’s not an entry-level book by any means, but for home cooks looking for guidance rolling pasta, curing meats and kneading bread, Vetri is an able instructor sharing beautiful recipes.

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    Soup & Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot At A Time
    Martha Bayne
    (Agate Surrey, $20.95)
    November


    Chefs’ soup recipes and charming illustrations are intertwined with social-justice stories told by the former Chicago Reader food writer.

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    The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Weekends
    Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift
    (Clarkson Potter, $35)
    September


    Kasper and Swift show a reverence for ethnic flavors in this book, laying out plans for, among other parties, a Mexican comida, a Vietnamese Sunday lunch and a celebratory Chinese feast.

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    Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts
    Mark and Michael Klebeck with Jess Thomson
    (Chronicle, $17)
    October


    Doughnuts 101, by Seattle’s renowned doughnut makers. Cake doughnuts, yeasted doughnuts, dulce de leche doughnuts—there’s even a whole-wheat doughnut recipe in here.

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Gobs of cookbooks come out in autumn. Here are the ten you’ll actually use.

09/12/2011

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September 14, 2011
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