Are you looking for gifts for all those cooks on your Christmas list?  The New York Times has put out its gift guide of the year’s Notable Cookbooks: http://ow.ly/7YEn8.  Cooking in the Moment: a Year of Seasonal Recipes by Andrea Reusing is a seasonally driven collection of recipes using locally-grown ingredients.  Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi, by Yotam Ottolenghi, features vegetarian recipes drawn from diverse Mediterranean cultures.  For more local tastes there are Cooking my way back home, by Mitchell Rosenthal with Jon Pult, and Mission Street Food, by Anthony Myint & Karen Leibowitz.  Most of the cookbooks are available at the library. http://ow.ly/7YF6K.   Come check them out.