A new Advance Cookbook category, "Nostalgia," reflects on the "old." It plays on the notion that food continually connects us to each other and plugs us into the past. We don't want to lose those momentous tastes and actual formulae that built them.

Now, this was a tough category at the Cookbook Taste-off itself because there were three wonderful cooks presenting delectable Italian items. Take two food chroniclers, Paula Gati of Miller Place, and Richard Rosselli of Queens, with their popular Facebook pages, respectively: "Born Again Italian" (5,900 members and going strong) and "Italian American Men & Women Who Love to Cook" (about 8,400 followers so far.)