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Holiday Gifts: Around the World Cookbooks
By Bobbie Leigh The greats have done it again. This is the year of the rock-star chefs. Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt )is every bit as great as her best seller, Around My French Table. Whether you

Eataly: A Manhattan Mecca for La Cucina Italiana
Bobbie Leigh Go hungry. In fact, go very hungry if you really want to have more than a taste of Eataly, the sprawling Italian food mecca at Fifth Avenue and 23rd street in New York City. Just don’t call it a food mall. Owners Joe Bastianich, his mother Lidia Bastianich,