Fine Cooking Comfort Food: 200 Delicious Recipes for Soul-warming Meals

Any day of the year can be the right time to make a favorite, warm-the-cockles-of-your-heart dish. But the winter season, inclement weather or not, is the time when our taste buds often crave the hearty and homey. A one-source compendium of such coziness is the softcover "Fine Cooking Comfort Food "(The Taunton Press, $19.95), from the editors of "Fine Cooking "magazine. Liberally scattered color photographs call attention to recipes from the Soups and Chowders section to Desserts. The book is geared for home cooks looking for flavor variations on old-fashioned favorites such as Rustic Bean and Farro Soup or something different, like Lamb Tagine With Honey, Prunes, Onions & Toasted Almonds, or Transylvanian Goulash. Although this isn't a "how-to-cook" book, there are the added "Fine Cooking "series' cooking tips (Making the Perfect Omelet) and interesting ingredient asides. --The Los Angeles Times