Nobody in my house eats gluten-free, but we have friends and extended family with gluten intolerance and one friend with Celiac. It's so hard finding recipes that make everybody happy - especially when you're not a particularly advanced cook, like me.

Then a friend turned me on to A WORLD OF FLAVOR. This is the first cookbook from Nancy Miller and Amber Barrett, the mother/daughter team behind the food/photography blog "The Whisk and the Spoon." The cookbook features recipes from all over the world (including India, China, Cuba, France, etc.), and covers everything from breads, donuts, cakes, and cookies, to appetizers, main dishes, salads and sides. A lot of my gluten-free friends complain about the textures and flavors of gf substitutes and it seems like these authors have gone to great lengths to find the right blends of different types of flour to make the recipes come out right. Whether you're gluten-free or not, that's awesome - because it means they should taste good, right?

The recipes in here range from very straightforward to quite complicated. Based on my current skill level, I started with a few of the simpler ones.