First published in 1982, The Silver Palate Cookbook was an instant smash. It offered 350 gourmet, but easy-to-follow, recipes that reflected and helped cement America’s growing interest in quality cooking. It acquainted cooks with the gourmet ingredients just beginning to appear in markets. And it helped many a host shine at home entertaining. The collection, whose recipes range from hors d’oeuvres to sweets, now arrives in a special 25th-anniversary edition that reproduces the original text and adds full-color photographs throughout. All the old favorites—from marinated eggplant livia to chicken marbella to blackberry mousse—are present, along with information about ingredients, menus, quotes and other asides that make the book a lively and informative read. This special edition, which includes a retrospective foreword, expands upon the book’s enduring appeal to fascinate the foodie in you. Paperback; 452 pages.