Visitors to the Supreme Court's gift shop have asked for years: Where is the court's cookbook?

Now, the shop has an answer. It's called "Table for 9: Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes." The book out this month is part history book, part cookbook. It includes more than three dozen recipes associated with justices and their families.

Food is a way the court's nine justices connect. There are welcome dinners for new justices and retirement dinners for those who are departing. The justices regularly eat lunch together and celebrate birthdays together.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes in the book's introduction: "Food in good company has sustained Supreme Court Justices through the ages."