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Chicago Cookery

When Jill Prescott first tried French cooking, she almost burned down her house trying to clarify margarine instead of butter. She persevered and became a chef, cookbook author, and host of a PBS show. In May she moved the Jill Prescott Culinary School from Wisconsin to Chicago and expanded it into the largest recreational cooking school in the U.S. Among the more than 50 choices: a three-hour soufflé class ($85) and weeklong courses on French cuisine ($1,200). 312/822-8100, jillprescott.com. -Jeanette Hurt

Do Look Down

One of 250 aerial photographs in Bernhard Edmaier's Earthsong (Phaidon), a new book of surreally gorgeous landscapes. phaidon.com, $60.

Is Travel an Impulse Buy?

You can now book a trip at kiosks in New York's Disney Store (711 Fifth Ave., 212/702-0702). And you know those mall carts that hawk scrunchies? America West Vacations is selling ...