The contributors include the culinary world's finest, with such cookbook authors, chefs, and food luminaries as Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, and Bobby Flay. Mouthwatering dishes from Curtis Stone, Francois Payard and Thomas Keller were tested on home appliances, making them easy to re-create. The exceptionally clear recipes will enable you to create impressive restaurant-style dishes in your own kitchen. The recipes in "Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2010" reflect the many ways to cook today; real food that real people who want to eat well can actually prepare.

Author Biography

Dana Cowin, F&W editor in chief since 1995, has covered food, entertaining, style and design for over 20 years. She is on the board of directors of City Harvest, a New York City hunger-relief organization. Kate Heddings is the editor of F&W Cookbooks and a senior editor at F&W Magazine. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City, she previously edited cookbooks at William Morrow Publishers.