Epicurious.com is one of the web's foremost authorities on everything related to food, and includes such things as food news, recipes, and more. Their professional recipe collection itself contains over 25,000 recipes, and they've got another 35,000 home cooks' recipes. Unless you're crafty and motivated, there hasn't been a quick and easy way to create your own cookbook from their recipes - until now. Last week, Epicurious unveiled TasteBook, a service that allows you to import your entire Epi Recipe Box into TasteBook, select up to 100 of your favorite recipes, and in just a few days receive an awesome hardcover cookbook.

The completed cookbook is just as great as a cookbook you'd buy from the bookstore, and comes complete with tabbed chapters. Even better, the price is reasonable at just $34.95.

Epicurious has already gone ahead and started some TasteBooks for you, complete with 50 of their favorite recipes in different categories such as Holiday Cookies and Kid's Favorites. For these TasteBooks that have already been started, you just need to choose 50 additional recipes to include with the ones that were already pre-selected.

TasteBooks have arrived just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, and would make the perfect gift for friends, family, and co-workers, the chef in your life, or even for yourself. Buying a TasteBook is a great way to gift a cookbook as it allows you to personalize and tailor it to your recipient.