Jenn Garbee

Whether you love the holidays or they send you into Christmas carol-induced therapy, both are a handy excuse to spend exorbitant amount of time baking. If your gluten-intolerant or know someone who is, Jeanne Sauvage's timely new book, Gluten-Free Baking for the Holidays is a great new speculaas and springerle......

If you're still in Thanksgiving recipe denial, DIY guru Danny Seo's latest book, Upcycling Celebrations, offers up handy table decoration procrastination options -- particularly for those with "green" oriented Martha Stewart aspirations. Inside, Seo will show you how to make Thanksgiving place card holders out of leftover Halloween gourds and......

Most of the talk this week is of Thanksgiving cooking -- at home. But Come In, We're Closed: An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World's Best Restaurants by Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy is a coffee table-worthy title (part chef interviews, part recipes, loads of gorgeous photographs) "dedicated to......

If you're feeling uninspired by the same Thanksgiving sides, you've still got time to order a copy of Fred Thompson's Southern Sides for express delivery before the turkey oven timer goes off. Sure, California is miles from the South, at least last we checked the election results. And the topic......

Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo is known among chefs as the "bean guy" -- his Good Mother Stallard, Vallarta and Santa Maria Pinquitos make appearances on most top restaurant menus this time of year. More recently, Sando began importing a handful of products made by small producers (very small, often......

The beauty of cookbooks: there is truly something for everyone. Whether you've got a boss who has a thing for handmade pasta, a friend who thinks they're Gordon Ramsay (but doesn't own a pepper mill), or a cousin who's obsessed with every Michelin-starred chef, you can find a cookbook to......

If you're a baker, you've probably had the Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum on your shelf at some point during your baking career. Now, you can have Beranbaum's double boiler, too. The cookbook author has teamed up with NewMetro Design, the company behind the BeaterBlade, a stand-mixer paddle attachment......

Cooking is often about remembering -- actively, looking forward and without regret. You might be inspired by a family member, an incredible vacation, a certain farmer's produce or a neighborhood restaurant dish that you loved. A dish, perhaps, in New Classic Family Dinners by Mark Peel. This isn't a new......

In The Curious World of Wine today, uncorking a bottle is often more an invitation for criticism than enjoyment. Was that $15 bottle worth a repeat buy? Did the pricey Pinot Noir you served for Thanksgiving do your heritage turkey justice? In his new book, Richard Vine, an industry consultant......

The beauty of this time of year: we get to move straight from a candy hangover to spicy mole. Happy Día de los Muertos. If the idea of spending several hours making a batch of the traditional Mexican sauce isn't tops on your recovery agenda today, you can pick up......