This batch finishes off all of the cookbooks that I currently have on hand — at least those that I thought worth extracting the interesting bits from. There are still plenty of other cookbooks that I use more as reference works (including four editions of Joy, but I already have so many recipes to choose from, I’m not sure if I’ll ever need to get back to them. I’m still taking requests for future recipe writeups — please leave comments on that page if there’s anything you’d like to see. The latest set:

• Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World
• Neelam Batra, Chilis to Chutneys: American Home Cooking with the Flavors of India
• Rosetta Constantino, Southern Italian Desserts: Rediscovering the Sweet Traditions of Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, and Sicily
• Lee Brian Schrager with Adeena Sussman, Fried & True: More than 50 Recipes for America’s Best Fried Chicken and Sides