Cookbooks are a great gift for the holiday season

Allrecipes.com, the leading online recipe and meal planning resource, introduces two new cookbooks, "Tried & True Favorites" and "Tried & True Cookies," showcasing America's best recipes. Different from other cookbooks dependant upon celebrity "star-power" or fancy culinary school credentials, all of the recipes within the Tried & True cookbook series were created, prepared and reviewed by thousands of busy cooks within their own home kitchens.

Because such a huge panel of home cooks influenced the cookbooks' contents, the Tried & True cookbooks are democratic and delicious reflections of how and what busy families eat today. As a gift or for your own collection, the Tried & True cookbooks are a welcome addition to any home cook's kitchen.

The 300 recipes within Tried & True Favorites were selected as the best of the best from Allrecipes' generous collection of over 20,000 recipes - most of which have been submitted and reviewed by Allrecipes worldwide community of homecooks.

Practical and sensitive to the needs of the average family, the cookbook lays flat when open, uses ingredients commonly found in the supermarket, and is organized by core ingredient (i.e. chicken, pasta, beef & pork). In addition, it is available at the low price of $17.95 by ordering online at www.allrecipes.com. That is a savings of more than 30% off the $25.95 cover price.

"I have tried new recipes daily since I received the cookbook. It is a wonderful collection. There were so many recipes that I've had trouble deciding what to make! The Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, the Award Winning Peach Pie, the Anniversary Chicken and the Gourmet Chicken Pizza were big hits at my house," said Karen, an Allrecipes.com user and cookbook owner.

Tried & True Cookies features America's 230 best cookie recipes - all of which have received repeated 5 (out of 5) star reviews from thousands of home cooks and their families. The cookbook is organized into eight chapters revealing America's wide-ranging cookie bounty, from melt in your mouth Joey's Peanut Butter Cookies and Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies to simply scrumptious Great Granddad's Sugar Cookies, Cowboy Cookie Mix in a Jar and Cinnamon Hazelnut Biscotti.

An eighth chapter provides invaluable cookie baking tips and tricks. Tried and True Cookies is available for $13.95 by ordering online at www.allrecipes.com; a savings of more than 30% off the $19.95 cover price.

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