Cookbooks for Giving

The first cookbook from MyRecipes.com, America’s Favorite Food, features over 200 of the top-rated, most reviewed recipes from America’s most trusted magazines and cookbooks including Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Health, Real Simple, Southern Living, Sunset, and Oxmoor House books. Thanks to our exclusive SCAN-IT/COOK-IT™ feature you can scan more than 130 vibrant, full-color photographs with your smartphone and instantly be connected to variety of helpful resources on MyRecipes.com. This is the first cookbook that enables an invisible watermark embedded in the photos to connect you to additional online how-to features.Click here to order the book.

Rebecca Lang brings us together around the table for a bounty of traditional Southern foods and treasured memories. Rebecca learned to cook from both of her southern grandmothers and shares her recipes for favorites such as biscuits, fried green tomatoes,  shrimp and grits, banana pudding, and caramel cake, as well as new takes on green bean casserole, chicken pot pie, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Sprinkled throughout the book are stories from Southern celebrities about their memories of being around the table, plus helpful information about table settings and serving pieces. A must-have for all Southerners on your list.Click here to order the book.

Editor Scott Mowbray, Executive Food Editor Ann Pittman and the editors of Cooking Light magazine bring you a collection of recipe, tips and techniques that represent the new way to cook light. This book is built on 25 years of success and experimentation in the Cooking Light Test Kitchens and shows you that there is a distinct way to cook for better health. And, as these editors will show you, this way of cooking and eating is soul-satisfying, deeply flavored, and real. All Cooking Light fans will want this book in their kitchens.Click here to order the book.

Artisan cheesemaker and owner of Belle Cheve creamery, Tasia Malakasis, invites you into her kitchen and into her heart with this stunning new cookbook featuring the recipes she loves to share with friends and family. The recipes reflect Tasia’s unique personality as a Southern woman with a Greek background who makes goat cheese.  Of course the book includes amazing recipes featuring goat cheese such as salads, tarts, dips and ice creams. But Tasia also shares recipes from her kitchen for Southern favorites such as Grit Cakes, Fried Chicken and Chicken and Dumplings as well as some of her favorite Greek specialties such as moussaka. Just flipping through the pages of this gorgeous book is satisfying enough, but once you’re in the kitchen with Tasia and actually cooking, your satisfaction will be complete.  Click here to order the book.

Food lovers can never get enough of Julia Child, and author Bob Spitz offers an insightful look into Julia’s childhood in California, her time at Smith College, her stint in government service, her marriage to Paul Child and then her rise to stardom. “A much-appreciated, well timed gift to us all . . . Julia has never been more alive in the hearts and minds of those who grew up with her and drank her dreams.” – The Huffington PostClick here to order the book.

Author Mark Bittman’s award-winning How to Cook Everything has been revised and expanded, making it a must-have guidebook for anyone who cooks or who wants to learn. Almost half the material in this revised edition is new. With Bittman's straightforward instructions and advice, you can discover how to relax and enjoy yourself in the kitchen as you prepare delicious meals for every occasion.  This book would be a much-appreciated and much-used gift for new cooks or newlyweds.Click here to order the book.

The editors of Oxmoor House and Southern Living magazine offer a complete illustrated guide to Southern cooking in this colorful book filled with basic information about kitchen equipment, ingredients, cooking techniques and over 375 recipes. Starting with the chapters on The Set Up, The Ingredients, and The Prep, and then The Recipes, these pages will give you all the information and inspiration to make food just like your mama (or your grandmother) made. This is an ideal book for every aspiring Southern cook as well as more seasoned cooks who might want a refresher course. To make your gift even more special, you might package the book along with one of the gadgets on page 20.Click here to order the book.