Forecasting: February 2006

Some more new culinary books on the distant horizon....

Photographer Melanie Dunea's MY LAST SUPPER, a collection of portraits of fifty world class chefs - including Eric Ripert, Mario Batali, and Marcus Samuelsson - with descriptions and recipes for the meal they would have if they could have only one more, with an Introduction by Anthony Bourdain, to Bloomsbury.

Author of Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors Lizzie Collingham's book on the history of food in WWII, to the Penguin Press and Penguin UK.

Chef Noel Stein's RESTAURANTEUR, about the inner workings of the restaurant industry, including descriptions of a kitchen's hierarchy and the diva antics of celebrity chefs, to Barricade, for publication in fall 2006.

THE NANTUCKET TABLE author Susan Simon's LA CUCINA LOMBARDA, of Italy's Lombardia region, with four-color photography throughout, to DK Publishing.