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When I read the latest Annabel Karmel cookbook, My First Cookbook – Fun, simple recipes all kids will love by Annabel Karmel and illustrated by Alex Willmoreit, was like taking a step back in time to my own wonderful childhood memories of baking and cooking with my mom. The cookbook is colorful and designed to attract kids’ attention and appeal to their palates. The recipes have easy to follow steps and illustrations that make cooking, baking, and learning fun. Designed…

Food can transport you to places already visited or places you wish to know, and Özlem Warren’s debut cookbook, Özlem’s Turkish Table – Recipes from My Homeland published by GB Publishing ORG with its mouth-watering recipes and stunning photographs, does exactly that. Having visited Turkey, reading Özlem’s cookbook with its stories, history, and photographs, was like revisiting there, and through her delectable recipes, we will be able to "travel" back there any time we like via our palate.

Whether you are a novice wine drinker or an experienced oenophile who wants to broaden your white wine knowledge, the new wine book, White Wine: The Comprehensive Guide to 50 Essential Varieties & Styles by Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen is a perfect read. Well-written with beautiful photographs and interesting side charts, this book makes learning enjoyable and is a wonderful gift for your favorite wine drinker or for yourself. Grab a bottle of your favorite white wine, pour yourself…

Amy LaBelle, owner and winemaker of LaBelle Winery in Amherst and Derry, New Hampshire, has written the definitive wedding planning book, Wine Weddings: The Ultimate Guide to Creating the Wine-Themed Wedding of Your Dreams by Amy LaBelle about planning your perfect wine-themed wedding. Having hosted and planned over 1,000 weddings and more than 3,000 events, Amy shares her expertise and tips that will make wedding planning a breeze.

As tea drinkers, we love our new "discovery" of Tea By iLOLATM with its easy-to-use tea discs, that we can take wherever we go, and have the rich flavors and benefits associated with loose tea. We tried their Tea by iLOLATM Essentials Set, which included two delicious selections of tea: Moroccan Mint Green Tea No. 26, a medium caffeine tea, and Royal Cream of Earl Gray Black Tea No. 12, a high caffeine tea, a Tea Disc Infuser, and a…

We loved "discovering" Pink House Alchemy (PHA) and using their small batch handcrafted flavored simple syrups and shrubs in our cocktail and culinary recipes. Their Simple Syrups include Cardamom, Dark Cherry Grenadine, Ginger, Hazelnut, Mexican Chile Syrup, Pumpkin Butternut Spice Syrup, and many more, and inspired Shrubs include Pineapple Rosemary, Pineapple, and Ginger. Whether you opt to use it in cocktail or culinary recipes, the possibilities are endless.

I first met Jacques Pépin in April 2005 at the James Beard House in New York when I interviewed him on receiving their Lifetime Achievement Award. Throughout the years, I have watched this kind and talented Master of the Kitchen and Master Artist charm and delight students, audiences, and readers of his many books. He has taught us not only how to cook, but how to have fun and take delight in the kitchen as well as in ourselves. His…

We love using herbal teas and floral infusions in our cocktail and culinary recipes and were delighted to "discover" Pixie Doodle Farm, based in Brooklyn, New York with a farm in Upstate, New York in Bethel. Owned by herbalists Joe Dale Harris and Erika Boudreau-Barbee, Pixie Doodle Farm has a diverse assortment of teas, infusion kits, and more, all creatively, and gorgeously, packaged making them a perfect gift for your favorite tea lover, cocktailian, or chef. Whether sipping their inspired…

When I think about chili, I think of cold weather comfort food, Sunday afternoon football, tailgate parties, après-ski, sledding, or skating, and if you need a little chili recipe inspiration, Seriously Good Chili Cookbook – 177 of the Best Recipes in the World by New York Times Best-Selling Author Brian Baumgartner is sure to inspire. For his cookbook, Brian Baumgartner, who many know from his role as "Kevin Malone" on the NBC Emmy-winning TV series, The Office, compiled his recipes…

Did you ever wish that you could learn to cook like an Italian grandmother (nonna)? With the cookbook, Tuscan Women Cook, Nonnas. Memories. Recipes by Coleen Kirnan with Rhonda Vilardo you can! With tasty recipes that range from Antipasti (hors d’oeuvre) to Zuppe (soup), Carne (meat), Dolci (dessert), Bevande (drinks), and more, the cookbook is filled with recipes that are easy-to-follow and include beautiful photographs of the food along with a great story for each of them, that will have…