A restaurant review that runs on the front of the Times food section includes the sentence: "The chef Dan Barber, who researched Mr. Passard's career for his recent book, 'The Third Plate,' points out that L'Arpège's devotion to vegetables expands on ideas pioneered by the nouvelle cuisine generation."
The Third Plate comes out May 20, so it would be more accurate to describe it as "forthcoming" instead of "recent."