It’s the Holidays and that means: FOOD!

So, the LG, who is a self-confessed foodie and wanna-be gourmande, has trolled some sites to find best cookbooks and food books of 2009. In no particular order, here they are.

First – www.epicurious.com, a great site for looking up recipes, how-to, etc. Their best-cookbooks-of list includes Lidia Bastanich’s new book and Tal Ronnen’s The Conscious Cook.

Over at www.seriouseats.com they have 10 cookbooks to recommend, including The Pioneer Woman Cooks and Eugenia Bone’s Well Preserved.

NPR has a fine list of 10 best, many of them focused on baking: Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, The Craft of Baking, and Savory Baking.

And, then there’s the NYTimes… they gathered a list of how-to cooking videos that are worth taking a look at. The Times has 2 lists of great cookbooks to peruse: Cooking and 25 More Cookbooks.

And, finally, the LG’s own, personal little list of The Best (being cookbooks she bought for herself this year):

• Goat Cheese – there are some superb appetizer recipes in here!
  
• Pure Simple Cooking

the recipe for roasted chicken,
potatoes, and red onions with
balsamic vinegar is to die for!

And – last of all, do yourself a favor and watch Julie & Julia. It’s one to make you smile, and Meryl Streep is nothing short of brilliant. If that sparks an interest in the grande dame of French cooking, DVD collections of her TV program The French Chef are also available.

Bon appetit.