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Favorite Cookbooks

Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories (Patty Pinner)

the recipes are rich and delicious, the kind you pass down for generations

How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (Nigella Lawson)

She is hilarious, and her recipes are really easy and fun to read!

Williams-Sonoma Foods of the World: Florence: Authentic Recipes Celebrating the Foods of the World (Lori De Mori)

The recipes give you food that tastes like the real thing......just like when I lived there!

Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look (Sarah Magid)

Easy Instructions for extremely impressive cakes!

At Home with Magnolia: Classic American Recipes from the Owner of Magnolia Bakery (Allysa Torey)

hands down the best meals I have ever made, have come from this little book!

Cooking from Above - Asian (Jody Vasello)

Easy for a novice cook, perfect for a foodie!

Bundt Cake Bliss: Delicious Desserts from Midwest Kitchens (Susanna Short)

a baker's necessity.

Lobel's Meat Bible: All You Need to Know about Meat and Poultry from America's Master Butchers (Stanley Lobel)

I now know more meat than everyone around me!

Restaurants I Recommend

Co'm Vietnamese Grill (Atlanta, GA)

the best vermicelli noodle dishes and curry EVER.

The Olde Pink House Restaurant (Savannah, GA)

Elegant, Romantic, Tantalizing, Perfection, Charming, Historical.....damn tasty!

Angelique Cafe (Los Angeles, CA)

they do things with eggs that are, well angelique!!

Puka Dog (Koloa, HI)

THE best and only way to eat a hot dog!

Haiku Kitchen (Pasadena, CA)

they made the BEST Japanese