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This cookbook shows just how much the organization has changed since it started in 1963. Once-forbidden foods like bananas, spaghetti, peanuts, and corn are welcomed in recipes, permitted just like every ingredient, just in moderation.

With attractive photographs, and dishes that hardly read like traditional "diet" fare, the recipes include Beef Wellington, Pasta With Walnut Gorgonzola Sauce, even Key Lime Pie. Another draw: the Weight Watchers version of classics like "Shake and Bake" chicken and Silver Palate's Chicken Marbella, not to mention favorite WW recipes like Orange Chicken, updated for this decade, with fresh ingredients like citrus and rosemary.

- Maureen Fitzgerald
Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook (St. Martin's Press, 2013), $29.99, at local bookstores or online booksellers)

Some of us are crazy for salted caramel, and others for dark chocolate. Stonewall Kitchen's winning Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel is the diplomatic, delicious melding of both, so we're not forced to make such an arduous decision. Our preference is to heat and pour over caramel or dulce de leche ice cream, doubling our caramel pleasure.

- Karen Heller
Stonewall Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel, $6.95 for a 12.5 oz. jar at Grocery, 101 S. 13th St., Philadelphia, stonewallkitchen.com, and other specialty stores.