Cookbook roundup time is here!

It may not be on this list, but I'm wanting the new Jamie Oliver cookbook. I'm also excited to try out my still unwrapped "Larousse Comme un Chef" brick (which has to weigh more than 5 pounds) that I shipped all the way from Paris, once I go home for the holidays.

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/12/favorite-cookbooks-of-2010/

New York Blues

Now that I've landed in New York City for business school (banker to commis to student... again), I find myself eating more like a poor student than a real food lover, which breaks my heart. I'm living on lecture notes and drowning under endless emails, and am being force fed pizza or vending machine meals several times a week. I'm ashamed. Where is that golden, buttery, perfectly flaky croissant I need to get back my munchie inspiration?

I want one of these:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/12/how-much-butter-can-be-in-a-croissant/