Your holiday gift guide from Clarkson Potter

Whether you need to dull the guilt of smashing one of Great-Grandmama's heirloom Christmas ornaments, or take the bite out of a New Year's Day hangover, the collection of cocktails and tips in Peterson's Holiday Helper will keep you afloat.

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Build the best gingerbread house on the block this holiday season! Featuring detailed blueprints and elevations of twelve classic American houses alongside baking directions and essential construction notes, this modern guide has projects for bakers of all levels, from novice to advanced.

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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.

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In their groundbreaking new four-color cookbook, brothers Matt and Ted Lee, the nation's most passionate southern-food evangelists, share recipes for home cooks that celebrate fresh ingredients without compromising an ounce of deep southern flavor.

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David Chang's long-awaited first book provides the sought-after recipes for the robustly flavored Asian-inspired food that has shaken up the restaurant world as well as the surprising story behind the making of the Momofuku culinary phenomenon.

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For meals that are meant for sharing with friends and family but created with busy cooks in mind, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home is a new classic that cooks of all levels will depend on.

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Long revered for its encyclopedic entries on everything from cooking techniques, ingredients, and recipes to equipment, food histories, and culinary biographies, Larousse Gastronomique is the one book every professional chef and avid home cook must have on his or her kitchen shelf.

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Featuring wine cellars from coast to coast, and revealing how the wine cellar has been reinvented as an inviting and beautiful part of the home, this elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.

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Maître fromager Max McCalman, Dean of Curriculum at the Artisanal Premium Cheese Center and author of The Cheese Plate and Cheese, is steeped in the world of artisanal cheeses like no one else. In Mastering Cheese, he shares that passion with twenty-two delicious lessons to help cheese lovers on their path to connoisseurship.

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