The Season's Best Cookbooks

You should see my office right now. Well, scratch that. Even if you could be there, you wouldn't actually be able to see it because of the piles and piles of cookbooks threatening to wall me out. One of the perks of being a food blogger -- besides the obvious prestige that comes from telling people I am a, ahem, food blogger -- is that most of the major publishers send cookbooks right to my door. I get so much inspiration from these daily deliveries, and, in case you haven't noticed, they play a crucial role in keeping this blog relevant. (Trust me, without them, DALS would be all taco Tuesdays and cookie-cutter sandwiches.) Anyway, every now and then someone gives me what I think of as the world's most plum assignment: To write about my favorite cookbooks of the season. This past week, I did just that for the New York Times' Book Review so head on over there to see which ones made the cut.