If you read and/or buy just one cookbook this season, make it “Chocolate for Breakfast,” the new pictorial cookbook produced by the people at Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll Inn, written by Barbara Passino, and with photographs by Hoberman. This delightful 285-page tome is nice enough as a coffee table book or to display in your kitchen, but in addition to the beautiful, color photographs, the book features some surprising–and tasty–food combinations.

Among the more than 100 recipes are fun things like Chocolate Tacos (chocolate tortillas filled with berries and sorbet), Watermelon and Feta Salad (dusted with chocolate!), a Lacy Singapore …read more