Recipe: Four Seasons Blushing Angel

Recipe: Bubbly Poinsettia

What Are You Drinking New Year's Eve?

You've had it up to here with cookies and are ready to break out the bubbly, right? A glass of champagne is perfect on its own, of course, but in case you're feeling creative, here are eight recipes for festive cocktails from recent books--many of which include sparkling wine--to help ring in 2011.

Recipe: Death at Dusk

Short Order: December 20, 2010

At last week's ninth annual Gotham/Avery/Dutton Bake Off, Gotham publicity assistant Alison Hoover took home the big prize for her Saltine Cracker Toffee. It marked the return of a chocolate dessert winning (historically, desserts that avoid chocolate tend to win), although chocolate-free desserts took second and third prizes.

Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Cookbooks Go Digital

Crown imprints Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press, which together represent the country's largest cookbook program, today announced they have released 88 full-color illustrated cookbooks in e-book format. Among the titles now available digitally are recently published and classic backlist titles from bestselling authors including Mark Bittman, David Chang, Giada De Laurentiis, Bobby Flay, David Lebovitz, Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart, and Alice Waters.

Review: 'Cooking in the Moment'

Chef and James Beard nominee Andrea Reusing's outstanding, beautifully photographed debut is a seasonally driven collection of 130 recipes. With an emphasis on local ingredients, this is a "mix of childhood favorites, standbys that can be prepared quickly, simple restaurant dishes, and celebration dishes to feed a crowd."

Recipe Report: Brown Bag Chicken

I'd never heard of cooking a whole chicken inside a brown paper bag before, so I was curious to try this recipe from Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen (Random, Apr.). Foster assures readers that the bag traps enough steam to make the chicken supermoist while at the same time letting enough escape to allow the skin to get golden brown. I was skeptical about the skin getting properly crispy but was pleasantly surprised.

Short Order: December 6, 2010

What would the Vikings eat?; the year's best cookbooks; early notes on Achatz's new book; cookbook art for sale.

A Small Cookbook's Big Year

When Skipstone Press published Urban Pantry: Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable & Seasonal Kitchen by Amy Pennington, with photos by Della Chen, in April, the market response was not exactly tremendous. Then Gwyneth Paltrow took notice, which led to a slew of national media, including a mention in Bon Appetit; a spot on Amazon's top 10 list of cookbooks for 2010; and sales nearing 10,000 copies.

10 Things Every Cookbook Publisher Should Know

I live and breathe cookbooks. Every week, the UPS guy leaves another dozen or two. I recipe-test every day of the week. Although I don't see every last cookbook, I see a wide spectrum, from the spectacular to the half-baked. At the end of every year, I make up best-of-the-year lists, and it invariably pains me to see many books fall out of the running for what are essentially silly reasons. But I also come across books so bewitching, so un-put-downable, that I have to ask myself: what is it that makes them so special?

Frank Bruni Moderates Pillow Talk on Food Porn

Gooey chocolate, juicy burgers, gobs of melting cheese--while it may be impossible to define the term food porn, "you know it when you see it." And at last week's Piglet Party at 92Y Tribeca, which celebrated the Food52-sponsored tournament of cookbooks, a panel of food writers assembled to discuss the weighty matter of food porn in cookbooks and magazines, and on the web.

Eric Ripert Shares Reading List on Scribd

Last week, social publisher Scribd announced the start of a year-long global literacy campaign featuring an array of celebrity reading lists. The campaign encourages Scribd users to share their own lists and to donate to global literacy efforts, including the construction of libraries in India. The program, Read for a Cause, kicked off last week with a list from Deepak Chopra and features a new list every week. This week's celebrity is chef Eric Ripert.

Recipe Report: Almond-Ginger Bars

Sinking your teeth into one of these almond-ginger bars from The Good Neighbor Cookbook (Andrews McMeel, Jan.) is like biting into a stick of butter, not something I'd necessarily hold against a recipe, but I think this one would've benefitted from less. That said, these bars are pretty heavenly, if sinfully so.

Review: 'The Good Housekeeping Cookbook'

This update of the iconic magazine's cookbook has recipes for all tastes and occasions, and gives The Joy of Cooking a run for its money. Traditionalists may scoff at some of the crew's shortcuts (a version of the classic Vietnamese soup pho using canned chicken broth, for instance), but most recipes remain faithful to tradition.

Thanksgiving Dinner, By the Cookbook

Happy Thanksgiving! Whether you still need to plan the entire menu or just need a recipe for stuffing or cranberry sauce, here are some hand-picked recipes from new and forthcoming cookbooks. There's a cocktail from The Essential New York Times Cookbook, turkey from Laurent Tourondel's new book, pannetone stuffing from Michael Chiarello, cranberry chutney from Heart of the Artichoke, and a twist on pecan pie from Michel Richard.

Recipe: Quick Pecan Pie with Sorghum Molasses and Cranberry Curry Cream

No Platform? No Problem

Although PW's recent panel discussion on cookbooks focused on digital publishing, Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours was mentioned repeatedly as an example of a successful cookbook best enjoyed in print. Greenspan doesn't have a TV show or a magazine, but her new cookbook has achieved record success.

Recipe: Dinner Rolls

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes Anna