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2010's best cookbooks include some local gems

A few of the local best cookbooks of 2010, as Nancy Leson sees it. She and Dick Stein share their faves on this week's Food for Thought.
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A few of the local best cookbooks of 2010, as Nancy Leson sees it. She and Dick Stein share their faves on this week's Food for Thought.

Picture your favorite cookbook, and how you have come to savor the experience of its splendor.  This week’s Food for Thought reveals new favorites that rank in that class, and Nancy and Dick are naming their top picks,   in time for Christmas.

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Their review of the best cookbooks of 2010 includes offerings by local chefs Lisa Dupar, Ethan Stowell and Cynthia Nims.

But wait! There’s more to enjoy, as Nancy reveals her favorites from the French, Italian, Asian and Indian-inspired tables.

The 2o10 cookbook that's Nancy's greatest indulgent pleasure? Dorie Greenspan's “Around My French Table.”

These cookbooks are great gift ideas, even after Christmas has passed, because, as Dick reminds us, “It’s never too late for a good cookbook!”

 

Check out the links to the cookbooks Nancy and Dick recommend:

Nancy's blog-post on new Seattle Restaurant Cookbooks

Frankies Sputino

India Cookbook

Gourmet Game Night

Around My French Table

 

 

 

 

Nancy Leson is an award-winning food writer, radio personality, cooking instructor and public speaker who learned much of what she knows about food during her first career: waiting tables. Seattle readers know her as the mouth that scored — for the better part of two decades — as restaurant critic and food columnist for the Seattle Times. These days, when she’s not chatting about recipes or interviewing makers and shakers in the food world for KNKX, she helps end hunger, one loaf at a time, as the Edmonds hub coordinator for the Community Loaves project. Find her @nancyleson and at nancyleson.com.