I've read some of Stella Parks's columns at Serious Eats. However, she likes to use coconut oil, a lot, and it is not an ingredient that I have or plan to have. She is also the one who used sugar to line the crust to blind bake a pie crust. Aaron tried that but felt it to be a serious waste of sugar. I would have to look carefully through the book to see if there were enough recipes worth my buying it.
The only book on the list that I own is Dorie Greenspan's Dorie's Cookies. I've not baked from it yet, in part because a couple of recipes I wanted to make call for Wolf's medium kasha, which I cannot find in stores here and would have to order. Now that Cwcdesign has reminded me of the book, I will see if I can bake some other recipes from it and report back.
I think that these lists tend to be recent cookbooks that they are pushing. They may have made the best-sellers list, but a lot of such cookbooks sit around on coffee tables for the pictures.
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