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Here’s my free advice for the day: befriend a gourmet.

We were invited to the City for a birthday celebration. The hosts have a serious talent in the kitchen, which we knew, so we’d prepared for this party by starving ourselves all day. Man oh man… what a spread. I ate everything in sight. I threw off the shackles of veganism, or really non-lacto-pescatarianism, with relish (and they probably put butter in the relish).

Their recipes come from a series of wondrous books. If you like to cook, or want to give a gift to someone who does (like me, for example), you can do no better than to check out the bound volumes of Cook’s Illustrated magazines. I don’t own any of these myself (but soon! but soon!) but my understanding is that the writers test countless variations of each recipe, publishing the one that works the best. And they explain why. If my friends’ results are any indication, these recipes are exceptional.