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New year, new mindset, new resolutions, right? Or, do you, like many of us, seem to pick the same resolutions e v e r y year? Exercise more! Eat better! Organize your finances! Right. Me, too.

So, there I was, thinking that we (the collective everyone, of course) are in the same place in terms of thinking about doing things that are good for us, to improve ourselves, when on a certain cable network there appeared before me the cholesterol fairy. I thought that I must be imagining it, but my family witnessed it, too. She was showing viewers how to make fried macaroni and cheese (wrapped in bacon)! Still not believing, I asked my brother, "Did she say fried macaroni and cheese?" Affirmative. Hmm...It made me pause. What if fried mac and cheese were in my vernacular? What if black and white cookies were not a thing of (my) past? What if I were to eat butter with abandon???

I know. I shouldn't. But, if you'd like to, maybe you should check out some of these titles for the new year:
The book of vice : very naughty things (and how to do them) / Peter Sagal.
Paula Deen celebrates! : best dishes and best wishes for the best times of your life / Paula Deen, with Martha Nesbit.
Dolce italiano : desserts from the Babbo kitchen / by Gina DePalma ; foreword by Mario Batali ; photographs by Gentl & Hyers/Edge.