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The best cookbooks of 2015

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  • In 2011, Alex Stupak surprised the New York glutterati when he left his job as pastry chef at modernist temple WD-50 to open Empellon, a modest taqueria in Greenwich Village. He'd had an epiphany at a taqueria in East L.A. where he tasted his first
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  • Trine Hahnemann's
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  • California food writer Amelia Saltsman had an
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  • Chris Kimball and the folks at America's Test Kitchen have been at it since 1993, exhaustively testing recipes to be featured in Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines or on the PBS show
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  • Michael Solomonov's cookbook made headlines for its deeply personal revelations: After his brother, an Israeli soldier, died in combat, the author struggled with addiction before righting himself to become one of Philadelphia's most celebrated young chefs (named the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic in 2011). But the recipes in
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  • Zoe Nathan and her husband, Josh Loeb, are the owners of Huckleberry Bakery & Cafe in Santa Monica. In
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  • David Loftus is a food photographer best known for his work for Jamie Oliver's cookbooks; Andy Harris is the founding editor of Jamie Oliver's Jamie magazine. Their collaboration,
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  • J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is more than qualified to write about the hows and whys of cooking. An MIT graduate and former restaurant cook, he uses both the scientific method and serious cooking chops to question all received culinary wisdom on his quest to create the best recipes.
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  • Have you been waiting for the book that is finally going to get you to cook Asian food? Here it is:
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Tablets, smartphones and television all offer countless resources for expanding culinary knowledge. But still, there is nothing like a cookbook. Here are our Top 10 picks for 2015.

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