When the weather is unbearably hot and sticky and all you feel capable of doing is melting into a human puddle, the best thing to eat for temporary relief is a member of the frozen dessert family: ice cream, sorbet, or granita. This week we're giving away three copies of dessert master David Lebovitz's latest book, The Perfect Scoop. The Perfect Scoop starts with the basics of ice cream making followed by over one hundred recipes for ice creams, sorbets, sherbets, granitas, and accompanying sauces, toppings, mix-ins and vessels. Many of the recipes are prefaced by tips or personal anecdotes, such as the one where David reveals that the worst summer of his life was when his neighborhood's Good... More

Food & Wine's Jane Sigal, who really knows her stuff when it comes to eating in Paris (she worked for Patricia Wells for years), chimed in with a terrific list of reasonably priced places to eat in Paris two years ago. I somehow missed this list when it came out in the magazine, so I was happy when it reappeared on the F&W website. Who else is a good go-to person for Paris eating? Blogger extraordinaire David Lebovitz, of course. We're going to be featuring Dave's nifty new book, The Perfect Scoop, in a future Cook the Book.... More

David Lebovitz says, "Here's my address book for the most popular, and my favorite places for ice cream in Paris," and proceeds to list six top glaciers and what he likes to order at each, plus the names and addresses of four more he's heard about but has yet to try. There's possibly no one else whose opinion on this I'd trust more, as he lives in Paris, is the author of the cookbook Perfect Scoop, and his recipe for Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream is supposed to be better than that of Berthillon, which is regarded as the best ice cream maker in the world. Consider it a list you must print out when visiting Paris!... More