Small Victories: Recipes, Advice, and Hundreds of Ideas for Home-Cooking Triumphs

There's nothing wrong with aspirational in cookbooks—we all like to dream—but for her first solo outing (after working behind the scenes for years as a private chef and cookbook co-author), Turshen emphasizes the practical, with recipes that don't stint on flavor or ambition but that keep in mind the lives of busy home cooks. I won't be surprised if her recipes are the ones that actually get made the most from this year's batch of books.