<strong>Two award-winning books in one box offer a lifetime of learning for anyone who loves fine food. </strong><br><br> From two acclaimed restaurants came two of the most acclaimed, award-winning cookbooks ever published—now packaged together in a luxurious slipcased boxed set, the ideal holiday gift for any food lover.  <br><br>First there was French Laundry in Napa Valley, setting a new standard for American fine dining. Then there was <i>The French Laundry Cookbook</i>, setting a new standard for American cookbooks. In 2006, Chef Keller opened Ad Hoc, his casual family-style restaurant that serves a single menu a day, and that restaurant, too, gave birth to a groundbreaking cookbook, in fact a <i>New York Times</i> best seller. <br><br>Whereas <i>Ad Hoc at Home</i> offers a huge happiness-inducing collection of family-style recipes that includes lunch-counter favorites—lemon meringue and cherry pie; such classics as Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Herbed Rack of Lamb, plus Thomas's mom's coconut cake and his dad's favorite meatballs—<i>The French Laundry Cookbook</i> is a culinary ode to finesse. Every recipe in it has become a classic: from Keller's Salmon Cornets to his Oysters and Pearls and Butter-Poached Lobster. From the casual but carefully considered food of <i>Ad Hoc at Home</i> to <i>The French Laundry Cookbook's</i> recipes at their most refined, this is cooking that delivers in taste, and makes us all better cooks.