Sample the wares before you buy: That’s the premise behind the Tom Douglas Holiday Cookbook Social, where local chefs with cookbooks come together to offer tastes from their pages.This wine-added event, (which, sorry to say, has already sold out) would have been a fun way to meet the faces behind the recipes, for a festive start to your holiday shopping. For the fourth year in a row, Tom Douglas will host 20 other cookbook-bearing local chefs at his Palace Ballroom. They include Fran Bigelow of Fran’s Chocolates, Thierry Rautureau of Rover’s, Matthew Amster-Burton (Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater), Leslie Mackie of Macrina Bakery, and Langdon Cook (Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager). For a head start on the suggested reading/cooking/shopping, here’s the list of cooks/authors from the press release:-Nicole Aloni (Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen, Cooking for Company, The Backyard Bartender)-Matthew Amster-Burton (Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater)-Greg Atkinson (Entertaining in the Northwest Style, West Coast Cooking)-Erica Bauermeister (The School of Essential Ingredients)-Renee Behnke (Memorable Recipes to Share with Family and Friends)-Fran Bigelow (Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts and Sweets from the Creator of Fran’s Chocolates)-Langdon Cook (Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager)Tom Douglas (Tom Douglas’ Seattle Kitchen, Tom’s Big Dinners, I Love Crab Cakes!)-Kathleen Flinn (The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School)-Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis-Hearne (Dutch Oven Cookbook, Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook)-Leslie Mackie (Macrina Bakery and Cafe Cookbook)-Lora Lea Misterly and Shannon Borg (Chefs on the Farm: Recipes and Inspiration from the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts)-Cynthia Nims (The Best Places Northwest Cookbook, Stone Fruit, Crab, Salmon)Vitaly and Kimberly Paley (The Paley’s Place Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Pacific Northwest) -Melissa Peterman and Marcus Pape (Eat and Drink in the Northwest)-Thierry Rautureau (Rover’s: Recipes from Seattle’s Chef in the Hat)-Keith Robbins (Tini Bigs Big Martinis)