Chef and restaurateur Mario Batali has signed a deal for two cookbooks with Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. The first cookbook will be written in collaboration with Washington Post writer Jim Webster, and will "look at farmers and their top products in 12 American states across the country – from Maine to Seattle – and will include 70 recipes that utilize these local ingredients." The book will be released in Fall 2014 and the title has not been announced yet.

The second cookbook will be "Batali's definitive look at American regional cuisine." The book will feature "over 250 recipes of Batali's interpretations of the best dishes America has to offer" and will "emphasize the inexpensive and the deceptively simple, celebrating the treasures of state fairs, the dishes of local rotary clubs and regional classics." The book will be released in Fall 2015 and the title has not been announced yet.

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