Looking at 2025 cookbooks, EYBD Previews, recipes and more

January 17, 2025 by Jenny

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While most of us are still enjoying the fruits of 2024’s cookbook releases, I am already looking at those titles we are looking forward to this year. This week I will highlight a few great books to be placed on our wishlists. The last few weeks, I have been working on adding 2025 titles to the preview post and cleaning up our Library records.

Now to mention a few titles that I am excited about and I am sure you will be too:

Samin Nosrat’s next cookbook is available for preorder. Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love will be published in September of this year. From the publisher: This title is an essential, joyful guide to cooking and living. Here you’ll find go-to recipes for ricotta custard pancakes, a show stopping roast chicken burnished with saffron, a crunchy, tingly Calabrian chili crisp, super-chewy sky-high focaccia, and a decades-in-the-making, childhood-evoking yellow cake with chocolate frosting. The book also includes tips, techniques, and lessons, from how to buy olive oil (check the harvest date) to when to splurge (salad dressing is where you want to use your best ingredients) to the best uses for your pressure cooker.

Dorie Greenspan’s new book titled Kitchen Cakes is slated for Fall 2025 but no official listing is up yet! And in October Levain Bakery: A Story of Friendship, Community, and Cookies will be published. I assume by the owners of Levain Bakery – Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald – but no other particulars yet. Cookies – The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat by Vaughn Vreeland and New York Times Cooking will be published in September featuring 100 recipes from trusted writers at the New York Times.

Crave – Cupcakes, Cakes, Cookies, and More from an Iconic Bakery by Carolyne McIntyre Jackson and Jodi Willoughby will be released in Canada on May 6th and brings 70+ recipes for all things sweet from the founders of the Prairies’ famous bakery. Anna Cooks by Anna Olson, Wood, Fire & Smoke by Michael Smith, and Gather, Savor, Share: Beloved Staff Meals from the Aiana Kitchen by Raghav Chaudhary are a few other Canadian books headed our way.

Asma Khan’s new cookbook, Monsoon: Delicious Indian Recipes for Every Day and Every Season, will be released on March 6th in the UK and on March 11th in the US. She returns with a masterclass on building flavour in your cooking through the intuitive principles of Indian cookery. Structured around the six core ayurvedic tastes, namely: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal, this book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving you the foundations you need to build balanced flavours, dishes and sumptuous feasts.

One of my favorite author’s Marion Grasby has released a new cookbook The Essential Wok Companion this month! Marion shares that this book is here to inspire you, and to elevate and emphasise the beauty in this everyday kitchen utensil: the wok. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular style of wok cooking – stir-fries, noodles, char, simmer, steam, smoke and fry. More than just recipes to follow, the title gives you the technical tools and confidence to get the best flavours from your wok. From in-depth visual information and how-to sections on cutting meat and vegetables, to advice on how to look after your wok and what oil to use.

Another title from Australia, that I’m excited about is Imagine – Creating Desserts with Christy Tania which is set to publish in March. The author sprung to fame through her charismatic, winning performances on Masterchef Desserts and now she generously shares her secrets with you. Featuring over 50 foundational ‘basic’ recipes, readers can master everything from ganache to brownies, to short crust pastry, to ice cream. After being sick and tired of having to ‘go hunting’ for good coulis or cremeux recipes – which are often buried at the back of traditional cookbooks or hidden within a larger recipe – Christy decided to create a compendium of ‘basic’ recipes for people looking for reliable and tasty staples.

Other titles to get revved up about:

Sweet Farm! by Molly Yeh
The Choi of Cooking by Roy Choi, Tien Nguyen and Natasha Phan
The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip by B. Dylan Hollis
Pull Up a Chair by Martha Collison
Cold Canning by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
The Art of Gluten-Free Bread by Aran Goyoaga
Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden
Ready for Dessert, Revised Edition: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz
Baked & Boozy by Mike Johnson
Modern Pantry by Gurdeep Loyal
Kitchen Keepers by Katrina Meynink
Milk Street Backroads Italy by Christopher Kimball and J. M. Hirsch
Salsa Daddy: Dip Your Way Into Mexican Cooking by Rick Martinez
Malai Frozen Desserts by Pooja Bavishi
Fat + Flour: The Art of a Simple Bake by Nicole Rucker
Mother Sauce by Lucinda Scala Quinn
Food for Thought – Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown Events
The Christmas Companion by Skye McAlpine
Celebrate – Joyful Baking All Year Round by Paul Hollywood
Strong Roots: A Love Letter to Ukraine by Olia Hercules
Ghana to the World by Eric Adjepong
Cook Korea!: Iconic Dishes & Cult Recipes by Billy Law

The last few weeks on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

February 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
2025 Cookbook Preview Post updated
Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales – the publisher links automatically update and please see the ICYMI post.

Jenny and the EYB Team

Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a few highlighted titles that were recently indexed. ckbk titles notated as such – for more information on ckbk see Jane’s post. Remember to view the most current indexed titles – they will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

Wild Food – A Complete Guide for Foragers by Roger Phillips ckbk
Pinch of Nom All in One: One-pan, Slimming Meals by Kay and Kate Allison
Better Than Nonna – Modernised Italian Recipes by Danilo Cortellini ckbk
Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals: Fast, Fresh & Affordable by Patricia Tanumihardja ckbk
Everyday Mexican Instant Pot Cookbook: Regional Classics Made Fast and Simple by Leslie Limón
Mexico in Your Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico by Mely Martinez
Chuck’s Day Off by Chuck Hughes
Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style by Sonoko Saka
Jane’s Patisserie Easy Favourites: Simple Sweets & Stress-free Treats by Jane Dunn
Churrasco: Grilling the Brazilian Way by Evandro Caregnato
The Authentic Pasta Book: Regional Italian Recipes for Great Classic and Contemporary Dishes from Great Chefs and Fine Home Cooks by Fred Plotkin ckbk

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Orange-poppy seed cake from Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings (page 57) by Yossy Arefi submitted by Member djnielsen64

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