Food & Wine Best of the Best, Volume 18

Book excerpt: The most exceptional recipes from the 25 best cookbooks of the year, as chosen by the experts at Food & Wine magazine. To find the year's most outstanding cookbooks, Food & Wine considered hundreds of contenders. Featuring 110 dishes from superstar cooks such as Mario Batali, Alice Medrich, Carla Hall, Tyler Florence, Marcus Samuelsson, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Geoffrey Zakarian, Food & Wine Best of the Best reflects exactly how people want to cook today. Recipes for starters, main courses, and desserts have each been rigorously tested and guaranteed to work by the experts at Food & Wine. As a bonus, Best of the Best includes more than twenty exclusive, never-before-published recipes from theseacclaimed chefs and authors, adding Feta Mac & Cheese with Crunchy Tomato-Olive Crumbs, Roasted Corn& Tomato Tarts, Fudgy Raspberry Swirl Brownies, Ginger Molasses Cookies, and more to the smartly curated collection of favorites. This handsome hardcover volume also features lush color photographs of finished dishes along with simple wine pairings throughout.