Books with Taste (Daily Break‪)‬

There's been an incessant clacking of keyboards in Toyland. It's the beat of cookbook authors diligently pounding out hundreds of volumes that cover everything from how to squeeze a lemon to how to be Emeril. One even teaches you how to cook like a native of Mumbai. Cookbooks make great gifts, but the rub is matching the cook with the book. To help, we've vetted volumes published in the past year or so, picked a few to test drive and arrived at this list of eight, something to satisfy every appetite. We've also paired each cookbook with a perfect companion gift - think of it as something that enhances the flavor of the main dish. By Lorraine Eaton | The Virginian-Pilot "The Pleasures of Cooking for One," by Judith Jones, 2009, Alfred A. Knopf, 273 pp., hardback, $27.95 As an editor to Julia Child and James Beard and a co-author of three cookbooks with her husband, Judith Jones has lived a life that has revolved around food. When her husband died in 1996, she thought the pleasures of the table would cease.