I don't know about you, but in our household, cookbooks tend to languish on their shelves, gathering dust and all but forgotten. Our recipe inspiration comes from the net, from pinterest and other food blogs and digital versions of the magazines which we used to receive, but ultimately let our subscriptions lapse because they ended up sitting unread in towering stacks in the corner. Call it a resolution, of sorts, to pay more attention to my beloved cookbooks. To use them and abuse them to the point where their pages are sticky and splattered and stained. Because (as a cookbook author myself) I know the amount of work that went into creating them, and they deserve more than just a spot on a shelf. Take, for instance, America's Test Kitchen's The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook. I received a review copy months ago, and, due in part to our extra packed fall schedule, the book just sat there, untouched. For months. I don't know what prompted Taylor to pick it up a few weeks ago. I was

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