"Although every cookbook proclaims it is new, not that many really are. I'm always on the lookout for truly innovative flavor combinations, the unfussy yet deft marriage of old ingredients in new ways. Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors, by former Chez Panisse chefs Susanna Hoffman and Victoria Wise, is just that: page after page of recipes where citruses, nuts, greens, spices get juggled into new constellations, each one a winner. If that weren't enough, the book is jammed with history and context—how the Coke bottle got its shape, the history of Walla Walla onions, why we call it an 'eggplant.' Within half an hour of picking it up, I'd studded Bold with a hundred stickies. I was in love."—Boston Globe