Congratulations to fiveandspice, whose "Greek" Lamb with Orzo won the contest for Your Best Cheap Feast!

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

Today: Fiveandspice brews and bakes her way through The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee.

Put time into dinner now, and you can make it last forever -- or at least the whole week. Welcome to Halfway to Dinner, where we show you how to stretch your staples every which way. 

Today: fiveandspice -- you may remember her from this -- challenges yogurt to a six-dinner duel. 

Today: Emily finally reaches the big, 17-course day!

Today: Emily preps for her 17-course feast.

Emily takes us through the process of foraging -- a Scandinavian tradition -- for her Big Feast.

The grand planning of The Feast of Nationalistic Proportions.

The inspiration for this week's feast -- and the history behind the celebration.