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The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes
and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy
Family Meals (Scribner) by Corky Pollan,
Lori Pollan, Dana Pollan and Tracy Pollan
The mother and three sisters of real-food
advocate and author Michael Pollan, who
wrote the foreword to this family cookbook,
share more than 100 of their go-to recipes.
For generations, the Pollans (Tracy is the wife
of actor Michael J. Fox), influenced by their
Russian-Jewish immigrant ancestors, have
used fresh, local ingredients to cook healthy
meals. This practical cookbook — filled with
gorgeous food and family photos — offers
easy-to-follow recipes like Pan Seared Salmon
with Salsa Verde, Crispy Parmesan Zucchini
Chips and Harvest Vegetable Bake.
For dessert, try Grandma Mary's Grand
Marnier Orange Cake (a "sophisticated ver-
sion of the traditional Jewish nut cake"),
Grandma Mary's Mandelbrot Cookies ("the
Jewish version of biscotti") and Key Lime
Pie with Walnut Oatmeal Crust. The authors
also give readers cooking tips, shortcuts and
techniques, and pantry lists to help families
eliminate processed foods from their diet and
cook healthy family meals.

with on freshly baked country bread and
brisket hash. Now, you can enjoy her dishes
at home.
Huckleberry contains 115 recipes — from
brunch dishes (porridges and eggs served
every which way) to sides to sweets (includ-
ing gluten-free muffms). Brown Rice Quinoa
Pancakes, Ricotta Griddlecakes, Chocolate
Chunk Muffins, Mushroom and Romanesco
Frittata — Yum!

BAKING

Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris
Home to Your Home Anywhere (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt) by Dorie Greenspan
Renowned cookbook author and baker
Dorie Greenspan (Around My French Table)
offers a collection of "radically simple" des-
serts inspired by years of travel through
France, incorporating the country's tradi-
tions, specialties and seasonal ingredients, as
well as the recipes shared by talented home
bakers and pastry chefs.
The seven chapters include: plain cakes
(Custardy Apple Squares); fancy cakes
(Gluten-Free Cheesecake); baby cakes and
petite pastries (Lemon-Glazed Madeleines);
tarts and galettes (Pink Grapefruit Tart);
cookies and bars (Olive Oil and Wine
Cookies); fruit, creams, frozen desserts and
candies (Mocha Truffles); and basics (Brioche
Loaves).

100 Days of Real Food: How We Did It,
What We Learned, and 100 Wholesome
Recipes for Your Family (William Morrow)
by Lisa Leake
Inspired by Jewish food writer Michael
Pollan's book, In Defense of Food, Lisa Leake
decided her family's eating habits needed an
overhaul. She, her husband and their two
small children pledged to go 100 days with-
out eating highly processed or refined foods.
In this book, she explains how she reduced
her family's consumption of processed foods,
including a guide to reading ingredient labels.
Quick and easy recipes include Whole Wheat
Banana Pancakes, Homemade Chicken
Nuggets and Cinnamon-Glazed Popcorn.

Ovenly: Sweet and Salty Recipes from New
York's Most Creative Bakery (Harlequin) by
Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin
Two women meet at a book club. One loves
sweet, and the other prefers salty. The result:
a beloved Brooklyn bakery and now a cook-
book sharing their secrets.
Sections include scones and biscuits; quick
breads and coffee cakes; muffins, shortbreads
and cookies; pies and tarts; brownies and
bars; cakes and cupcakes; bar snacks; fill-
ings, frostings and sauces; and baking for
the holidays. Try (vegan) Salted Chocolate
Chip Cookies, (gooey) Honey Blondies,
Bloody Mary Scones and Apricot Orange
Hamantaschen.

BREAKFAST/
BRUNCH

FRENCH

Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets and Recipes
from Our Kitchen (Chronicle Books) by
Zoe Nathan, with Josh Loeb and Laurel
Almerimda
In 2009, spouses Zoe Nathan and Josh
Loeb opened the doors to their Santa Monica
restaurant Huckleberry Cafe and Bakery,
where lines quickly formed to savor such
dishes as Nathan's savory scones, egg sand-

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My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories (Ten
Speed Press) by David Lebovitz
Ten years ago, David Lebovitz packed up
his treasured cookbooks, a well-worn cast-
iron skillet and his laptop, and he moved to
Paris.
In My Paris Kitchen, he remasters the clas-
sics, introduces lesser-known fare and pres-
ents 100 sweet and savory recipes that reflect
the way modern Parisians eat today — with
suggestions for intimate dinner parties (Black

Olive Tapenade); large groups, with long-sim-
mered dishes made in advance (Lamb Shank
Tagine); sides (Butternut Squash Crumble);
and desserts (Individual Chocolate Cakes
with Duke de Leche and Fleur de Sel).

MEDITERRANEAN

The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook (Idiot's
Guides/Alpha Books) by Denise Hazime

In her new cookbook, Dearborn-bred
author Denise Hazime references her
Lebanese background in offering healthy
Middle Eastern dishes that — well — even
an "idiot" can pull off.
The more than 200 easy-to-prepare recipes
cover the gamut from breakfast and brunch
to lunch, main meals, snacks, condiments
and desserts — with recipes for all your
favorite dishes normally found at the multi-
tude of Middle Eastern restaurants around
town. Now, you can make them at home. A
favorite to try: Fattoush Salad, of course!

TIME SAVING

How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better
Way to Cook Great Food (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt) by Mark Bittman
Become an efficiency expert in the
kitchen as the latest in Mark Bittman's How
to Cook Everything Series offers ways to cut
corners, save time and make life easier in
the kitchen with a plethora of user-friendly,
mostly healthy recipes (of course, it will
take time to wade through the cookbook's
more than 500 pages!).
Bittman's tips include consolidating
chopping, not waiting for the oven to pre-
heat (unless you are baking) and utilizing
the broiler instead of the stovetop to speed
things along. Each recipe includes cook
time and serving quantity, a shopping list
for each recipe and prep/cook instructions
that build the prep into the recipe for max-
imum time-saving. It's like having someone
hold your hand in the kitchen — and great
for beginning cooks.

Weight Watchers Cook It Fast: 250
Recipes in 15, 20, 30 Minutes (St. Martin's
Press/Griffin Trade Paperback Original)
by Weight Watchers
Perfect for when you're in a rush, this
latest Weight Watchers volume makes
cooking at home a viable and healthier
alternative — mostly relying on fresh fruits
and vegetables, lean protein and whole
grains.
Recipes include Roast Halibut with
Chunky Roasted Pepper Sauce (15 min-
utes), Chicken in Coconut Curry Sauce (20
minutes) and Quesadillas with Guacamole
and Pepper Jack (30 minutes). Sections on

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super-fast sides, snacks and sweets are part
of the mix.

SLOW COOKING

The Great American Slow Cooker Book
500 Easy Recipes for Every Day eb, Every
Size Machine (Clarkson Potter) by Bruce
Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
"If truth be told, the slow cooker is the best
device for preparing a deep complex stew,
a hot-breakfast-is-ready-when-your-alarm-
rings-miracle, a dinner-is-ready-when-you-
get-home-wonder, a surprisingly successful
cake or steamed pudding and fare as diverse
as dried-fruit compote," the authors write.
"Think of this appliance as an old-fashioned
take on sous-vide cooking: hours at a low
temperature under a tight lid."
After testing hundreds of recipes in doz-
ens of different machines, Weinstein and
Scarbrough provide home cooks ingredient
proportions for slow cookers of all sizes so
that every recipe can be made by a range of
models: small ones (2 to 31/2 quarts), medium
ones (4 to 51/2 quarts) and large ones (6 to 8
quarts), and they offer other tips as well.
Chapters include Breakfast (Peanut
Butter and Banana Porridge), Soups (Orzo
with Oregano, Lemon and Dill), Meat
(Lamb Ragu), Poultry (Italian-Style
Turkey and Peppers), Fish (Salsa-
Baked Salmon), Vegetables and Side
Dishes (Spaghetti Squash with Pine Nuts
and Sage) and Desserts and Party Drinks
(Cinnamon Bread Pudding).

CALORIE
COUNTING

The Hungry Girl Diet: Big Portions. Big
Results. Drop 10 Pounds in 4 Weeks (St.
Martin's Press) by Lisa Lillien
In her latest book, Lisa Lillien, founder
of the free daily email service www.hungry-
girl.com, takes her super-sizing techniques
and guilt-free recipes and puts them into a
jump-start plan to help readers "lose weight
painlessly."
Working with a registered dietitian, she
created a four-week plan with more than 40
recipes for super-sized meals and snacks. The
goal: Quickly drop 10 pounds or overcome
a weight-loss plateau. The plan emphasizes
lean protein, low-fat dairy, fresh fruit and
veggies, and "gigantic" portions.

The Skinnytaste Cookbook: Light on
Calories, Big on Flavor (Clarkson Potter)
by Gina Homolka
Gina Homolka's award-winning blog post-
ings on www.skinnytaste.com are known for
their delicious and miraculously low-calorie