At first glance it seems to be a spaghetti package from a supermarket shelf. If you hand it to someone, they’ll think you’re giving them a box of spaghetti.

But look again: It’s a spaghetti cookbook with more than 130 ways to prepare a plain box of spaghetti. The recipes are divided into five separate sections, each one named for the main ingredients:

• Fresh Herbs, Flowers and Fruit
• Vegetables
• Eggs, Cheese and Cream
• Seafood
• Meat

The recipes are creative and generally easy; the photos are tempting. The pasta is varied—not just spaghetti but bucatini, linguine and ziti. The gimmick is cuter-than-cute.

*If you didn’t see the episode, Kramer authors a book on coffee tables that looks like a coffee table. The “table legs” pull out of the four corners of the book, and the book can stand on its legs. He showed this as a guest on “Regis and Kelly” (who were fascinated).

April Fool’s: It’s a book about spaghetti.

But, the incentive might be recipes such as spaghetti with fried meatballs in a sauce of onions and chopped tomatoes, or an exotic spaghetti with red rose and sunflower petals in a basil-wine sauce. A red ribbon place marker is bound into the spine, but perhaps the publishers should have taken a tip from Kramer and made the covers bend back into a cookbook stand.

Still, the book sold out on Amazon. You can place an order for the new shipment, arriving soon, or head to your nearest bookstore.

• Find our favorite pasta recipes, reviews and our Pasta Glossary (it explains a lot!). 

A boneless, hickory-smoked ham from
HamIAm.com.

Over Lent, when no pork was consumed, hams were left to cure. The hams were ready by Easter, and ham became a popular Easter tradition.

Today, many households look forward to their “Easter ham,” but the decision is more complex: There is quite an array of different ham types and styles.

Do you know your ham? If not, you might not be purchasing the type that’s best for you. You need to know why:

• You’d want a bone-in ham over a boneless ham, or vice versa.
• If a spiral cut ham is your best bet.
• If you should consider a fresh ham versus a cured ham.
• If you’d prefer a city ham or a country ham.

It has (almost) everything you want to know about lemons:

• Lemon history (they originated near the foothills of the Himalayas)
• The different types of lemons (can you name even two?)
• Nutrition and health benefits, plus kitchen tips.You’ll even find our favorite recipe for homemade lemonade.

  The Lemon Glossary is one of more than 70 food glossaries developed by THE NIBBLE editors. You’ll find everything from an Antioxidant Foods Glossary and Artificial & Natural Sweeteners Glossary to a Waffle Glossary and Yogurt Glossary.

Can you name this type of lemon? It’s one of
the two “supermarket lemons.” There’s no
generic “lemon” any more than there is a generic “apple.”

People will beg for these veggies!
Photo courtesy WoodhouseChocolate.com.

Carrots—in dark, milk and white chocolate—and chocolate asparagus are the adorable chocolate vegetables made by Woodhouse Chocolate, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week.

No children—or adults—will refuse to eat these vegetables. (And here’s a trick: Proffer the chocolate veggies as a reward for eating the real veggies—for the rest of the month.)

The solid chocolate veggies are $6 each, with bundles of five milk or dark chocolate asparagus (tied with a ribbon) for $25.00.

Pick your veggies at WoodhouseChocolate.com.

Look at these beautiful Eggs Naturel, filled chocolate eggs covered in Valrhona white chocolate, from Chocolat Moderne (a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week).

The White Egg, “Peanut Pizzazz,” has a center of salted roasted peanut paste blended with dark milk chocolate and flecks of caramelized sugar.

The Brown Egg, “Hazelnut Hystérie,” has a center of roasted hazelnut paste blended with dark milk chocolate and flecks of caramelized sugar.

The Blue Egg, “Parlez Pistache,” is filled with our favorite pistachio paste blended with white chocolate and rice crisps.

Be a good bunny and send these gourmet chocolate Easter eggs to someone you love. Six eggs in large coral gift box, $39.00. To order, telephone Chocolat Moderne, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time, at 212.229.4797. Or visit the website.

Creative and beautiful chocolate Easter eggs.
Photo courtesy ChocolatModerne.com.