Cooking Light
Five-Star Recipes

The Best of 10 Years

Oxmoor House, $29.95

ISBN 0848715403

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Cookbook of the month

A pretty cookbook is not necessarily a good cookbook. The measure of a cookbook is how well the recipes have been tested. Here is a beautifully produced collection from the Valhalla of recipe testing, Oxmoor House. The recipes in Cooking Light Five-Star Recipes have been tried again and again by the staff of Cooking Light magazine; indeed, their favorites are noted throughout, adding a nice personal touch.

The book celebrates ten years of Cooking Light magazine, which began as the offshoot of a popular column in Southern Living magazine. With a circulation of more than five million, Cooking Light is the largest culinary magazine in the country. This sort of distribution is no accident; to paraphrase Elvis, five million happy cooks can't be wrong. These recipes combine style and sense in a way that makes you feel good about eating properly. If you want to ignore all the nutrition analyses and simply follow the recipes, it's easy to pretend that you're cooking some pretty naughty stuff.

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