Delicious Bestsellers

Double Delicious!: Good, Simple Food for Busy, Complicated Lives by Jessica Seinfeld

Library Journal –

In this follow-up to Deceptively Delicious, Seinfeld (comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife) explains food labels and lists fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat, oils, breads, grains, and snacks to buy. As in her first cookbook, these recipes sneak pureed vegetables into dishes; the appendix includes instructions for pureeing. Sweet and Sour Meatballs calls for broccoli puree, Macaroni and Cheese uses either carrot or sweet potato puree, and Chocolate Bread Pudding includes carrot puree. Seinfeld also offers healthy eating tips such as freezing juice in ice cube trays to add flavor to water.

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia by Buddy Valastro

Publishers Weekly –

Best known on TLC cable as the Cake Boss, Valastro shares recipes and a sometimes treacly tale of family, tradition, and ambition. A fourth-generation baker born in Hoboken, N.J., Buddy honors his Sicilian father, who taught him his craft, while marking his own rise from apprentice to master baker. His is the American dream told in flashbacks; like his show, the book plays on charm and the idea that to know Buddy is to like his work. Still, the book offers hard-won baking know-how. It conveys the dramatic sweep of Buddy's accomplishments as bolstered by his traditional values and family. For drama, it depicts, as mini-crises, the elaborate challenges and difficult designs that proliferate as Buddy's clientele expands to include Modern Bride and Britney Spears. However, despite great technical descriptions, including his bakery's cannoli recipe and photos of his spectacular cakes, Buddy's tale of immigrant success proves too familiar.

Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes and Easy Tips by Ina Garten

From Publishers Weekly –

The focus is on creating simpler yet appetizing dishes that save time and minimize stress in the kitchen in bestselling author (Barefoot Contessa Cookbook) and Food Network guru Garten's latest. She showcases recipes that utilize fewer ingredients, limited to those easily found in supermarkets or specialty food stores. She also stays away from time-consuming cooking techniques, instead making unusually good use of her oven for everything from easy parmesan risotto and French toast bread pudding to spicy turkey meatballs. Despite the relative simplicity of these dishes, they are still elegant enough to be served at dinner parties, especially the roasted figs and prosciutto, fresh salmon tartare, and the mouthwatering, easy Provençal lamb. Garten's vegetable dishes are particularly appealing and varied, including scalloped tomatoes, garlic-roasted cauliflower, and potato basil purée, and her desserts are equally strong, with easy cranberry and apple cake and fleur de sel caramels. Full-color photos accompany each recipe and are enough to send any hungry soul immediately into the kitchen. True to her trademark style, Garten once again shows that delicious food can be prepared with a minimum of fuss, even with guests on the way.