Enhance your culinary skills by adding these 5 unique cookbooks to your library.  Or give them individually as gifts!

A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider: a redefinition of healthy eating, where no food is taboo, great taste rules, and the concept of self-denial just doesn't exist.

Book of Tarts by Maury Rubin of the City Bakery: Maury Rubin, America's most innovative pastry chef, shares the secrets of his success in infusing traditional French pastry-making with a modern sense of design and fun. 

Martha Stewart's Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook: Great parties begin with great hors d'oeuvres.  This book presents 300 new recipes, each in full color!

The Last Course: Desserts of Gramercy Tavern by Claudia Fleming with Melissa Clark: "Inspired recipes so beautifully transcribed that even the most nervous home cook will f eel comfortable  trying them and will be four-star chef for the day." - Daniel Boulud

The Secrets of Pistoulet by Jana Kolpen: An enchanted fable of food, magic, and love that uncovers the ancient recipes which transform the weary guests at Pistoulet.