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store and buy a copy of your choice for its subscription order form, giving the copy to your cook as evidence of a year's worth of ideas to come.

The 1996 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Awards give a good glimpse of the latest crop of winning cookbooks. Cookbook of the Year went to Jeffrey Alford’s & Naomi Duguid's "Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas" (William Morrow & Co.); Cookbook Hall of Fame Award went to Jacques Pepin’s "La Technique and La Methode” (Times Books).

Other foundation^ 1996 cookbook winners include "Susanna Foo Chinese Cuisine" (Chapters Publishing), Nick Malgieri's "How to Bake" (HarperCollins), Steven Raichlen's "High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking" (Viking), "Jim Fobel's Big Flavors" (Clarkson Potter), Richard Sax“s and Marie Simmons’ "Lighter, Quicker, Better" (William Morrow) and Julia Child's "In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs" (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.).

Software

And for today's cyberchef, software might cut gourmet mustard. "The Cook's Palate" Recipe Software is one such product that even encourages your chef to write and print his/her own cookbook. The software also can create custom menus, schedule meals and make shopping lists. Once a recipe is entered, complete nutritional analysis is automatically calculated.

’’The Cook's Palate," $49.99, is created by Better Lifestyles, 505 Paradise Road, Swampscott, Mass. 01907; (617) 599-3643 or (888) BETTER-SW to order.

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