New Cookbooks We Love

If you look forward to Yankee‘s “Food” section each issue, you probably love trying new recipes. Great cookbooks cross my desk all the time. Here are a few recent ones that have caught my eye–and my palate.

The Home Creamery: Make Your Own Fresh Dairy Products by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley (Storey Books; $16.95)

Heirloom Cooking With The Brass Sisters: Recipes You Remember and Love by Marilyn & Sheila Brass (Black Dog & Leventhal; $29.95)

Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World by Andrew Rimas & Evan D. G. Fraser (Morrow; $25.95)

Wine Mondays: Simple Wine Pairings with Seasonal Menus by Frank McClelland & Christie Matheson (Harvard Common Press; $24.95)

Olives & Oranges: Recipes & Flavor Secrets from Italy, Spain, Cyprus & Beyond by Sara Jenkins & Mindy Fox (Houghton Mifflin; $35)

The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health by Nancy Harmon Jenkins (Bantam; $35)