Romance is great and all, but there's nothing like knowing your friends have your back. Forget about that significant other (or lack thereof) and rally up your troop of friends: this Valentine's Day, it's time for a night in with good friends, bad movies, booze, and cake. 

Read up on some of 2012's most-loved cookbooks, tested and reviewed by the one and only Food52 community. 

Today: China millman reminisces about Parisian vegetables, and then cooks from a book full of them. 

Intense football watching means we'll be reaching for chips, dip, and anything we can eat without silverware or much concentration.