As we noted in Part I of The Top 10 Least Appetizing Cookbooks Money Can Buy, nobody it seems, has the time to cook anymore.

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The art of actually preparing a meal has become a thing of the past.

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The feature from the New York Times starts:

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"Deceptively Delicious," the cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld whose recipes for concealing puréed vegetables in comfort food for children bore such similarities to another cookbook's that it inspired a lawsuit from that book's author, shot to the top of the Amazon best-selle …

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How Family Cooking Traditions Survive

This morning as I was making breakfast for my family I had a conversation with my husband as to how cooking traditions survive. My experience has been very diverse, and rich in that I was raised with my maternal grandmother.

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Our favorite cookbooks for the year 2007 were something of a tossed salad: a few chefs, a few bloggers; a few classics, a few innovators; a few for summer, a few for winter. In other words, a variety pack of this year's best.

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After reading hundreds of recipe collections, we selected the top texts in ten categories, including French, Southern, vegetarian, and baking.

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For Gail Monaghan, memory lane is paved with dessert.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the James Beard Foundation, and to honor the occasion, the institution's book-awards committee has worked feverishly to distill a list of 20 essential cookbooks still in print that could serve as the dependable core of any kitchen library.

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Cookbooks are a staple of modern kitchens, cooking parents and restaurant mavens the world over. From Betty Crocker to Paula Deen, these books contain some of the most soothing and delicious foods meant for any human mouth.

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From the chapter "Slow Food for Cultural Survival". Many traditional foods and methods of food production have been prohibited by laws imposed in the name of hygiene.

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As the executive chef at Manhattan's Brasserie Les Halles since 1998, Anthony Bourdain heads a staff that puts out consistently good fare.

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This is a summer book list for those of the 'green' persuasion. Something for everyone, from global warming to natural cleansers for the home.

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Some people learned to cook from their mothers or, if Mom was at the office, from their grandmothers. Some learned from books: I still have the stained and spine-sprung copy of James Beard's Fireside Cookbook that inspired my first success in the kitchen.

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I don't know how this escaped me until now, but there are actually two cookbooks available in English by one of the best teachers of traditional washoku or Japanese cooking, Tokiko Suzuki.

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This Christmas morning, raise a mug of eggnog to the great food and drink writer Charles H. Baker, Jr., who was born on December 25, 1895, in the small central Florida town of Zellwood.

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"The Twinkies Cookbook" shows you how to make Twinkie sushi, among other things. What an odd country this is.

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