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The 10 Best Cookbooks to Give This Holiday

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The 10 Best Cookbooks to Give This Holiday
The 10 Best Cookbooks to Give This Holiday
Tertulia •
Nov 7th, 2022

Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant Via Carota

Book Cover for: Via Carota: A Celebration of Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant: An Italian Cookbook, Jody Williams

Via Carota: A Celebration of Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant: An Italian Cookbook

Jody Williams

I've reacted to the book just as I do the restaurant. It's how I like to eat, and cook, all the time. Here is the rare restaurant cookbook that will make you a better cook.

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Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen Keepers

Book Cover for: Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook, Deb Perelman

Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook

Deb Perelman

All of Deb Perelman's books are modern classics, and Smitten Kitchen Keepers is no exception ... Her recipes are crowd-pleasers without being dumbed down ... It's the cookbook you can give basically everyone and know that they will use it.

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A Great British Bake-Off alum's guide to therapeutic mindful and delicious baking

Book Cover for: A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood, Benjamina Ebuehi

A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood

Benjamina Ebuehi

One of those baking books you’ll want to keep in an easily reachable spot in the kitchen, A Good Day to Bake really does have something to fit any baker’s craving. Further, it’ll serve as a reminder to take the time to nourish yourself, even as life resumes to a more hectic pace.

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Cook As You Are by Ruby Tandoh includes real world doable recipes. A Bon Appétit best book of the year.

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Cook as You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook

Ruby Tandoh

Equal parts treatise and recipe book, Cook As You Are makes a wonderful gift for thoughtful eaters wishing to free themselves from moralizing food norms, time-crunched cooks in need of easy weeknight recipes, and everyone in between.

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Essentials from the Godmother of Italian cooking in America

Book Cover for: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook, Marcella Hazan

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook

Marcella Hazan

I have quite a lot of Italian books, but Marcella Hazan is peerless... Her recipes simply work. And her voice is quite direct, not like that of a schoolteacher, but quite no-nonsense. I have never cooked a dish of hers that didn’t work and many have become part of my core repertoire.

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J. Kenji LĂłpez-Alt's guide to the most versatile pan in the kitchen

Book Cover for: The Wok: Recipes and Techniques, J. Kenji LĂłpez-Alt

The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

J. Kenji LĂłpez-Alt

Before I read “The Wok,” I thought I could cook anything just fine in my cast-iron skillet. I was right, but is “just fine” all I aspire to? The first batch of López-Alt’s pepper steak that I whipped up in my new $20 wok was far superior to anything I’d ever stir-fried before.

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Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Full big Bronx energy from Ghetto Gastro.

Book Cover for: Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen, Jon Gray

Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

Jon Gray

As you would expect from Ghetto Gastro, the visuals are incredibly strong—it’s not every cookbook that juxtaposes a recipe for a green salad with a Toyin Ojih Odutola painting, or devotes a two-page spread to Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times.

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100+ vegan recipes from Bryant Terry

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Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes

Bryant Terry

Vegetable Kingdom’s audience should be anyone who wants to expand their vegan cooking repertoire and make their beans and greens more exciting—a few pages in, and I’m out the door to the farmers market, a tote on each arm.

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The pandemic lockdown "go-to" dinners from the Barefoot Contessa

Book Cover for: Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Ina Garten

Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten

You'll find a range of different recipes, many of which can be made or prepped ahead of time (like overnight mac & cheese!). Plus, she made sure this cookbook is filled with hearty and cozy family dinners... Oh, and when it comes to transforming leftovers [this] has got you covered.

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The art of cooking vegetarian cuisine over fire by world-renowned chef Francis Mallmann

Book Cover for: Green Fire: Extraordinary Ways to Grill Fruits and Vegetables, from the Master of Live-Fire Cooking, Francis Mallmann

Green Fire: Extraordinary Ways to Grill Fruits and Vegetables, from the Master of Live-Fire Cooking

Francis Mallmann

The sidebars and recipe headnotes (written with his longtime American collaborator Peter Kaminsky) are borderline poetic and can be read for pleasure even if you never cook from the book. But that would be a mistake.

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