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Now you can enjoy preparing Moorish Cuisine without sacrificing the traditional flavors and execute basic cooking techniques. Chef ZZ combines the traditional recipes of his Moorish family with a refreshingly new sense of food as a creative venture.

Edited by Rachel Whorton $18.95 (Released October 4, 2011 Sterling Publishing)

Rachel Wharton has been Deputy Editor of Edible Brookily and Edible Mabhattan magazines since 2009, and won a James Beard 2010 journalism award for her columns.

How Brooklyn Lives, Cooks and Eats is her specialty, and she introduces readers to the borough’s eclectic population which includes Italian, Asian, Polish, Mexican, Russian and more. This is part travel, part recipe collection and a great read among a series of four Edible cookbooks from the magazines with a view of

America

’s most exciting food fests.

This very beautifully designed book is filled with delicious Polish recipes Beata Zatorska learned from in the farm house of her grandmother as a child, but when she returned her beloved grandmother was gone but had left the handwritten recipes found in this charming book, along with her memoirs of a childhood in Poland in the ‘60s and her journey with her husband to discover the Poland of today. If you love Polish food, and I do, you will cherish the recipes in this book. The love in the creation of this publication is all over it!

Hollywood Walk of Fame actress tells her story through food. She loves to eat and never gets fat, and had published a memoir filled with sharp anecdotes, photos and delicious recipes. Spanning from the 1940s to her recent show Hell’s Kitchen she travel through her life and career, following each section with one or two recipes, including John Wayne’s crab dip, Tony Curtis lemon soufflé and John Forsythe’s sesame chicken recipe.It is filled with great food and Hollywood gossip.

Nava is an author and illustrator of many well-known vegetarian and vegan cookbooks and her visual art has been shown nationally in museums and galleries. This book holds the secret to a happy vegan holiday! It includes everything from Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas, with brunches, lunches, dinners, potlucks and buffet dishes.

SERIOUSLY . . . I'M KIDDING by ELLEN DE GENERES

Talk show superstar and author Ellen DeGeneres joined "Extra's" Mario Lopez at The Grove Tuesday to talk about her new book, "Seriously... I'm Kidding," and her recent heart scare. After telling Mario she felt "good," DeGeneres demanded, "Take your shirt off!"

Thousands of Ellen fans lined up at The Grove to see the comedian, who recently penned her third book, "Seriously... I'm Kidding," in which the bestselling author candidly discusses her personal and professional life, even describing what it was like to be a judge on "American Idol."

When Lopez mentioned that Ellen had nice things to say about "Idol" judge Simon Cowell, Ellen joked, "I must have been drunk during that chapter," adding, "He's actually a nice guy."

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DeGeneres addressed her health, telling Mario what happened after she experienced heart pain last month that caused the comedian to call 911. "Here's the thing... I was scared enough to call the paramedics. I woke up in the middle of the night to kind of like a tightness feeling in my chest and I thought, that's not good."

Ellen continued, "Then I was driving to work... right before I got in my car I started feeling it again and it was scary enough that I called the paramedics on the Warner Bros. lot thinking nobody would hear about it. It got blown out of proportion and I'm totally fine. I got it checked out and it's just... I don't know what it was."

"Seriously... I'm Kidding" is in bookstores now.