2007 Wrap-Up: Books of 2007

These are books not necessarily published in 2007, but discovered in the last year.

Blake:

Charcuterie - Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn

Of any other food book I read this year, this one was the most pragmatically enabling: there was no excuse for not participating in the great culinary art of charcuterie.  It wasn't enough to admire those who make salami, or cold-smoke their own...