The latest volume fromGourmetmagazine combines the best elements of the publication: cooking, fine dining, entertaining, shopping, world travel, culture, and history. Three hundred of the best recipes that have appeared in the magazine’s food columns throughout 2000 — as well as twenty menus ranging from casual to grand, from homey to chic -—show you how to entertain in style and still have time to enjoy your guests. A special section on “Comfort Food” features a collection of twenty-four brand-new recipes, including a to-die for apple pie, a great old-fashioned glazed ham, and a heavenly chocolate pudding. This year’s Cuisines of the World section transports the reader to Sicily with three menus: a summer dinner in Palermo, a carnival dinner, and a Sicilian sweet table.