Delicious Valentine's Day choices from The Bon Appetit Cookbook

Bon Appetit magazine has been publishing recipes and matters of cuisine for fifty years and this is their first cookbook! You can imagine it is a BIG cookbook. And it is…791 pages with about 1200 of their hand-picked all-time favorite recipes.

I was duly impressed to read that Barbara Fairchild, the author, has been with the magazine for 29 years, starting as an editorial assistant and now editor-in-chief. Barbara’s singular professional commitment to the magazine gives hope to others willing to start anywhere and work their way to the top.

So, it was with great excitement that I paged through...