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So I recently stumbled upon this compilation series that features recipes from about 25 of the top cookbooks released each year. Looks like Food and Wine magazine put these out for about 18 years. My collector urge kicked in so I tracked down used copies of them all and just got them unpacked. Not sure if I "needed" them since I probably own many of the cookbooks featured, but we'll see. If I find they're not worth the real estate needed to house them, I'll pass them along. Anyone else have this series and enjoy it?

Tempting.  

I loved this series and was really sad when they stopped publishing it.  I enjoyed reading about each book and getting a sense of what the cookbook was about without buying it.  I have the full set and have cooked from almost all of them.  We do a cocktail night once a month with friends and there is always a theme and even though I might not own a "tapas" or "Greek" cookbook, I often find myself looking through this collection and am bound to find books that fit the theme.  The series got better as it went along.  I don't think the first few were as useful as the later ones in the series.  When posting notes I post from the book I cooked from, but try to also post the note in the cookbook it is from.  Hope you like them as much as I do.

Ended up picking up some more.  

Glad to hear you got use out of them! I've only flipped through the first 2 volumes so far, looking forward to perusing the newer ones. I didn't even think about cross posting notes. Good idea!!

Haha, I'm always happy to enable cookbook acquisition!

I buy a lot of used cookbooks on Thirftbooks.com and EBay.  Many times you can find older titles for very reasonable prices.

Oh yes....I know about thrift books and eBay ....and Abe books ....there's book outlet here in Canada too for discounted new books. All very dangerous sites for me!