The best selling cookbooks of 2019

Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2019 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2019. Now we asked them for their top sellers. In past years we have compared the lists from specialist stores in the USA to that for all US sales from the publishing industry data company, Nielsen.  Unfortunately Publishers Weekly has not published the list this year (or at least not yet) so we cannot do the comparison.

Please do remember when buying cookbooks to support your local cookbook store, if you are lucky enough to have one. We are delighted that a new cookbook store has opened in the UK – cookbookbake in Brighton. The only other cookbook store in the UK (in London) would never respond to our requests for their lists!

USA

Omnivore Books (San Francisco)

1. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
3. Food of the Italian South by Katie Parla
4. Lavash by Kate Leahy, Ara Zada and John Lee
5. South by Sean Brock
6. The Gaijin Cookbook by Ivan Orkin
7. Where Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli Music
8. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
9. The Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop
10. My Mexico City Kitchen by Gabriela Camara

Now Serving (Los Angeles)

1. Where Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli Music
2. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
3. Food of the Italian South by Katie Parla
4. Dappled by Nicole Rucker
5. My Mexico City Kitchen by Gabriela Camara
6. The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
7. Tu Casa Mi Casa by Enrique Olvera
8. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
9. Zaitoun by Yasmin Khan
10. The Gaijin Cookbook by Ivan Orkin

Kitchen Arts & Letters (New York)

1. Vietnamese Food Any Day by Andrea Nguyen
2. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
3. Indian-ish by Priya Krishna
4. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
5. The Neapolitan Pizza by Paolo Masi, Annalisa Romano, and Enzo Coccia
6. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
7. American Sfoglino by Evan Funke
8. South by Sean Brock
9. On the Hummus Route by Ariel Rosenthal, Orly Peli-Bronshtein, and Dan Alexander
10. Poilâne by Apollonia Poilâne

Book Larder (Seattle)

1. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
2. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
3. Cannelle et Vanille by Aran Goyoaga
4. Recipes for Refuge by Refugee Women’s Alliance
5. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
6. South by Sean Brock
7. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
8. The Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop
9. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
10. Dining In by Alison Roman

Powell’s City of Books (Portland, OR)

1. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
3. Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish
4. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
5. Artisan Sourdough Made Simple by Emilie Raffa
6. Cocktail Codex by Alex Day, David Kaplan & Nick Fauchald
7. Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
8. The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi & David Zilber
9. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
10. Portland Cooks by Danielle Centoni

Read It and Eat (Chicago)

1. Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porwoski
2. South by Sean Brock
3. The Dude Diet Dinnertime by Serena Wolf
4. Ruffage by Abra Berens
5. Cooking for Good Times by Paul Kahan
6. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
7. The Indian Slow Cooker by Anupy Singla
8. Cook Once, Eat All Week by Cassy Joy Garcia
9. Central by Virgilio Martinez
10.  Every Day Is Saturday by Sarah Copeland

CANADA 

Appetite for Books (Montreal)

1. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
2. Olive and Gourmando by Dyan Solomon
3. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
4. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
5. My Big Fat Greek Cookbook by Christos Sourligas
6. Matty Matheson: A Cookbook
7. Lavash by Kate Leahy, Ara Zada and John Lee
8. Montreal Cooks by Jonathan Cheung and Tays Spencer
9. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
10. Alpine Cooking by Meredith Erickson

The Cookbook Co. Cooks (Alberta)

1. Calgary Eats by Gail Norton and Karen Ralph
2. Dirty Food by Julie Van Rosendaal
3. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
4. Duchess At Home by Giselle Courteau
5. Kitchen Party by Mary Berg
6. Rocky Mountain Cooking by Katie Mitzel
7. Living High Off the Hog by Michael Olson
8. Secrets From My Vietnamese Kitchen by Kim Thuy
9. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
10. The Prairie Table by Karlynn Johnston

NEW ZEALAND

Cook the Books (Auckland)

1. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
2. Wholehearted by Kelly Gibney
3. The Recipe by Josh Emett
4. Community by Hetty McKinnon
5. Vegful by Nadia Lim
6. The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland
7. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
8. Ripe Recipes: A Third Helping by Angela Redfern
9. A Year in My Real Food Kitchen by Emma Galloway
=10. Baltic by Simon Bajada
=10. Bounty by Catherine Bell
=10. Meat & Three by Kathy Paterson

EUROPE

cookbookbake (Brighton, UK)

1. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
2. The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer
3. Greenfeast: Spring, Summer by Nigel Slater
4. The Flexible Pescatarian by Jo Pratt
5. The Modern Cook’s Year by Anna Jones
6. Dishoom by Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar & Naved Nasir
7. Five Ingredient Vegan by Katy Beskow
8. Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel Slater
9. The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson
10. One More Croissant For The Road by Felicity Cloake

De Kookboekhandel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1. Simpel (Ottolenghi Simple) by Yotam Ottolenghi
2. Lekker Fred by Freddy Tratlehner
3. De Banketbakker by Cees Holtkamp & Jonah Freud
4. De bijbel van de Italiaanse keuken by Maud Moody, Leonardo Pacenti and Nina Bogaerts
5. De groene bakplaat (The Green Roasting Tin) by Rukmini Iyer
6. Indorock by Vanya van der Leeden
7. Bouillon by Jean Beddington
8. Eten met Nijntje by Bruna Dik and Samuel Levie
9. The Rijksmuseum Cookbook by Jonah Freud
10. Gloeiend groen by Welmoed Bezoen

Kogebogeriet (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1. Ceviche by Martin Morales
2. Gone With the Gin by Tim Federle
3. The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi & David Zilber
4. The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit
5. Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain
6. Lateral Cooking by Niki Segnit
7. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
8. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
9. The Flavor Matrix by James Briscione and Brooke Parkhurst
10. Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee
These titles are their international top 10 – their actual top 10 were all cookbooks published only in Denmark.