By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear, by Hailee Catalano

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I have never eaten as many delicious things in such a short period as my first weeks with By Heart. Hailee Catalano takes us inside her family's Sunday gravies, days at culinary school (where she met her partner), restaurant kitchens — and the tastes, flavors and inspiration she found along the way. It's a cookbook that reads as personally as a diary. The dishes inside are thoroughly comforting, while also driven by seasonal ingredients and a small amount of chef-y ambition. She spans every corner of the menu, so let Catalano do the planning, head to your local farmers market, and invite some friends over for a dinner party! — Lucas Chen, development writer