Best of the Best Vol. 5: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year

Rating:
Summary: Improved edition
Review: I have several years of these food and wine samplers of the best recipes of the 25 best cookbooks of the year. This 2002 edition contains an improvement: recipes are organized by type rather than by cookbook of origin, making it a more usable work.

Suggestions for future editions include:
1) Multi-year index to all published editions
2) Author's name legibly on each page (this edition only has a tiny photo of the original book's cover
3) More F&W editorial comments describing the dish and what makes it great. (More like Best American Recipes edited by Fran McCullough).
4) Are so many celebrity cookbooks really the best of the year? I'm skeptical, as so few are on my list of "best cookbooks of all time." Cookbooks by single subject experts who put in years of effort and research before publication and cookbooks written by cooking teachers with a deep knowledge of their cuisine tend to make it to my "best of all time" list.