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While not all of us like to cook, we all love to browse cookbooks!

 

If you admit to frequenting the vending machine or spending way too much for lunches out, the Cooking Light East Smart Guide: Lunch to Go is your ticket to midday meals you'll look forward to and feel good about! 

 

For the veggie lover in all of us-reap the health and environmental benefits of vegetarian cooking with more than 300 recipes from around the world. These recipes have been carefully selected from international cooking styles-including Italian, Greek, Thai and Japanese-tested and then "fused" into easy practical dishes for home cooks. Includes seasonal suggestions, like creating a cool cantaloupe soup during the summertime 

 

FARM TO FORK, the third book in Emeril’s new series of cookbooks, brings out the “green” in Emeril with recipes that will inspire cooks, new and old, to utilize organic and locally-grown produce. Emeril gets his hands dirty and brings the farm to you--he’ll show you not only how to whip up a delicious meal, but also how to take advantage of local seasonal ingredients, which will keep you eating fresh and healthy foods throughout the year 

 

Beautifully designed and complete with full-color photography of these delightful desserts, Spice Dreams is a satisfying and wonderfully cool addition to the cookbook library for fans of ice cream, fans of spices, and food lovers everywhere.

 
 

A stunning cookbook with 150 recipes focused on incorporating more local, fresh ingredients in your kitchen, along with the inspirational stories of 10 CSA farms around the country. 

 

A practical guide to adding that professional flourish to any dish. 

 

Alice Waters has been a champion of the sustainable, local cooking movement for decades. To Alice, good food is a right, not a privilege. In the Green Kitchen presents her essential cooking techniques to be learned by heart plus more than 50 recipes—for delicious fresh, local, and seasonal meals—from Alice and her friends. She demystifies the basics including steaming a vegetable, dressing a salad, simmering stock, filleting a fish, roasting a chicken, and making bread. An indispensable cookbook, she gives you everything you need to bring out the truest flavor that the best ingredients of the season have to offer.

 

 

Filled with Mario's infectious personality and love of robust flavors, and illustrated with luscious full-color photos, Molto Gusto makes it easy to spend a night on the town without leaving home.

 
 

From one of Los Angeles premier caterers and event planners, here is a beautifully photographed cookbook filled with more than 100 delectable recipes and brilliant party planning tips. 

 

Bauer (Joy's LIFE Diet), the nutritional/health expert for the Today Show, provides basic ideas for eating better, such as cooking at home, using lean cuts of meat and light condiments, and reducing your portion sizes. The recipes for main dishes, desserts, and vegetables—plenty for all diets, even vegetarians—are high in flavor and low in calories 

 

In Coming Home, designer Rosanna Bowles shares a year round plan for establishing traditions-and, in the process, making memories. 

 

Burger Parties features sixteen crowd-pleasing menus with recipes for prize-winning burgers, appetizers, sides, and desserts, plus wine and beverage pairings that are sure to inspire backyard grillers and frequent entertainers with new ways to spice up your gatherings.  

 

Whether you are a vegetarian hard-pressed to find enticing recipes for your slow cooker, an omnivore looking to expand your repertoire, or a follower of a vegetable-focused diet, The Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker will help you put many delightful meat-free dinners on the table with convenience and ease.