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The best books of the noughties, as chosen by Fuchsia Dunlop, Jay Rayner, Rosie Boycott, Tom Parker Bowles, Allegra McEvedy, Matthew Fort and other leading food writers Some of the books up for consideration.

Hardware Grill chef Larry Stewart presents butterscotch pudding made with 12-year-old Glenlivet scotch.

There are certain invitation-only events that the food obsessed can only dream of attending, and one of them is Thomas Keller's French Laundry holiday party.

A new spate of cookbooks encourage readers to buy food from local farmers, then use the ingredients to make nourishing seasonal meals.

This fall, my husband and I traveled to the Napa Valley area for a much-needed getaway.

In the blast furnace called Scottsdale sits a classic Parisianstyle bistro that evokes the frenetic energy of New York City's Balthazar.

GQ runs an excellent though unfortunately titled Q&A with Mr. Thomas Keller and the chef de cuisine at his restaurant Per Se, Jonathan Benno .

The devil's decade is ending with a fine-dining meltdown. It seems quaint to recall that fine-dining restaurants were once regarded as temples of food - eaters made pilgrimages to JoA l Robuchon in Paris, Thomas Keller in Yountville, Ferran AdriA in Bilbao, Heston Blumenthal in Bray, Susur Lee in Toronto.

It's that time of year again. As we did for 2008 & 2009 , we've compiled our list of food trends to come in 2010.

Sporting six Michelin stars and a chef line-up worthy of a world tour, Yountville turns up the heat this winter with its town-wide "Moveable Feast" program.

Dec 17th 2009 at 10:02PM It's black truffle season and Thomas Keller's Bouchon in Yountville is celebrating with a tasting menu and the return of a delicious favorite Bouchon's black truffle French fries.

While having dinner recently, I overheard a woman trying to familiarize her dining companion with Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

Foodies can get a little stressed during the winter holidays. Between mixing up batch after batch of gingerbread people and striving to get the "roast beast" done just right, most cooks could use a little extra pampering.

"Ad Hoc at Home" by Thomas Keller : One of the heftier tomes in a bevy of hefty tomes this year, Keller's cookbook declares the contents to be "Family-Style Recipes" to let readers know this is not just another chef/ coffee-table book.

The newest batch of cookbooks is almost overwhelming, but this trio offers a little something for everyone.

Every year I publish a list of foodie gift recommendations. My 2009 list includes three cookbooks and one of the absolute best Southern food products ever.

Spain is the most innovative country in the world when it comes to food. It's also the most traditional.

I was in the restaurant Ad Hoc in Yountville this past Thanksgiving weekend. If you haven't been to Yountville lately - or if you've seen it so often you're inured to its transformation - you need to know that Yountville is Napa Valley's version of the Las Vegas Strip.

When it comes to culinary trend predictions, there's fried chicken in that crystal ball, says Epicurious.com general editor Tanya Wenman Steel, who just released the foodie Web site's trend forecast for 2010.

With the recent opening of Thomas Keller 's Bouchon , we were reminded that some restaurants require a certain...patience when it comes to getting a table.