September 2021 New Cookbook Review

Hello members, it’s me, the broken record, once again telling you that many of this month’s cookbooks have been bumped to October, November or beyond. So I offer this caveat – as of this writing, the books below are published or are to be published by September 30th. But those dates can change at a moment’s notice. Shipping delays, paper shortages and the like are causing these issues. The most important thing is that we all remain healthy and let cookbook delays be the least of our worries. I’ve kept our 2021 preview post updated with any changes and continue to update the 2022 preview post. Just look at a few of those gorgeous covers from 2022 in the collage below.

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Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey: Estonia • Latvia • Lithuania by Zuza Zak was published in the UK and AU in June. This beautiful book is rich with photographs and explores the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by sharing stories from the locals as well as presenting their dynamic cuisine in a new way. For more information see our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway.

Antoni Let’s Do Dinner! by Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye star and New York Times bestselling author, is back with another offering of satisfying meals full of clean protein and loads of vegetables, with splurges of carbs and decadence. Antoni keeps shopping lists short and steps and pans to a minimum to make dinner simple but special.

Apple Kitchen: From Tree to Table – Over 70 Inspired Recipes by Madeleine and Florian Ankner: Explore the fascinating world of apple growing and discover varieties you don’t usually see in the supermarket as well as popular favorites. Then delve into a delicious array of more than 70 recipes; in addition to crowd-pleasers such as apple strudel, baked apples, and tarte tatin, whet the appetite with fresh menu ideas such as carrot and apple soup, apple-filled tortellini, and apple-butter pumpkin pie. In this book, you’ll find creative recipes for starters and snacks, mains, desserts, and drinks that revel in the astonishing versatility of this noblest of fruit – all beautifully illustrated with evocative photos

Baking for the Holidays: 52 Cozy, Seasonal Treats to Get You through the Winter by Sarah Kieffer: The cookie queen and author of last year’s major hit 100 Cookies is back with a book filled with recipes for all your holiday baking needs. Broken down by Morning Breads and Pastries; Holiday Desserts; Gift Giving; Beyond Christmas and Extras (think caramel shards, candied citrus peel and more); this gorgeous little book will be one you will pull out every year during the holidays (and beyond).

Bare Minimum Dinners: Recipes and Strategies for Doing Less in the Kitchen by Jenna Helwig, food director at Real Simple magazine, shares delicious, easy recipes so you can spend less time in the kitchen in her latest cookbook. Recipes are grouped by various categories: 30 minutes or less; 7 ingredients or less; slow-cooker and Instant Pot meals; one-pot/sheet pan/skillet meals and super simple sides. Throughout the book Jenna provides helpful tips such as how to keep your salad greens fresher.

Baking: Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and Treats by Australian Women’s Weekly: Enjoy classic bakes for any occasion alongside exciting and original variations – 100 sweet and savoury recipes, from delicious snacks and satisfying desserts, to wholesome lunches and comforting dinners. Add a creative twist to take your banana bread to the next level, shake things up with four easy ways to transform a classic quiche, and enjoy a real treat with six ways to elevate the humble chocolate chip cookie.

Betty Crocker Betty’s Best 100: Favorite Recipes from America’s Most Trusted Cook: Betty Crocker is 100! To celebrate a century of helping American home cooks get food on the table, Betty Crocker is sharing 100 of her best recipes that have fed and nourished every generation since 1921. Each recipe in this heirloom book is a cherished, classic favorite that’s easy to make and difficult to fail, and includes a note from Betty for a closer look at the American icon. With a full range of recipes, from breads and hearty casseroles to decadent cakes and sweets, Betty’s Best 100 is sure to be as treasured in your kitchen.

Burnt Toast and Other Disasters: A Book of Heroic Hacks, Fabulous Fixes, and Secret Sauces by Cal Peternell: There are recipes utilizing “very well done toast” as well as “really roasted vegetables” “overcooked turkey” “mushy rice” and the like but there is so much more. This is a guide to recovering from even the worst kitchen mistakes, making bad food good and making good food even better. There are dishes that start with canned beans, instant soup mix and more. This isn’t “semi-homemade” this is a collection of recipes from a top chef to handle all those missteps even the best of us make and those nights we need to throw together a meal with a can of cannellini beans as the main ingredient.

Cook Once Dinner Fix: Quick and Exciting Ways to Transform Tonight’s Dinner into Tomorrow’s Feast by Cassy Joy Garcia shows you how to utilize the leftovers from one meal to create an entirely new creation for the next. The leftover Roasted Garlic Turkey Breast transforms into Spiced Turkey Potato Soup, and Dry-Rubbed BBQ Brisket becomes crowd-pleasing Cheesesteak-Stuffed Peppers. No matter your favorite flavor profile or dietary restrictions, this book is packed with recipes the whole family will enjoy. Another winner from the author of Cook Once, Eat All Week. Events

Dark Side of the Bean: 150 Sweet Temptations by Kumud Dwivedi is being released in India and the US this month. This title provides the key to putting together basic ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs, flour, chocolate and fruit in various proportions to create an unbelievable array of desserts. You will also be guided in the use of unusual and exotic ingredients to make complex desserts with easy-to-understand terms. With an eclectic collection of recipes along with accompanying photographs, this is a treasure trove of irresistible delights.

Dinner Then Dessert: Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5, or 7 Ingredients by Sabrina Snyder shares the author’s favorite dishes from her vast trove of recipes, along with new fare to help cooks of all levels get great meals on the table every member of the family will love. Cooking at home doesn’t have to be difficult or boring. Here you’ll find flexible fail-safe recipes; 3, 5, and 7 ingredient meals; skillet dinners; classic side dishes, slow-cooker recipes, irresistible desserts, and more. I was hesitant about this title because typically the minimal ingredient books don’t excite me. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how lovely this book is. The recipes are very appealing and include recipes for Thai chicken skillet; Sauteed pork with peanut sauce in lettuce cups (I am making this recipe this week); and Braised chicken with bacon and beer and in the dessert chapter a few examples are Back-pocket chocolate brownies and Strawberry shortbread bars await. Check it out.

Flavors of the Sun: The Sahadi’s Guide to Understanding, Buying, and Using Middle Eastern Ingredients by Christine Sahadi Whelan: This book is a comprehensive guide to vibrant Middle Eastern ingredients, with more than 120 recipes that let them shine, from James Beard award winning Sahadi’s market in Brooklyn, New York. The book is organized by the following chapters Bright; Savory; Spiced; Nutty; and Sweet. Filled with beautiful imagery, it is more than just a fantastic Middle Eastern cookbook. Christine imparts her vast knowledge of ingredients so that we can continue our own exploration. For example, she tells us to read labels. In her what to look for regarding natural flower waters, the ingredients should just be flower petals and distilled water, anything else and you will have an inferior product. She then provides us with ideas for natural flower waters and what ingredients they work best with. She does this for every ingredient she tackles. We are covering this brilliant book in our EYB Cookbook Club in October.

Foodheim: A Culinary Journey by Eric Wareheim and Emily Timberlake: From one half of the cult comedy duo Tim & Eric comes the culinary bible for modern food freaks, showing you how to throw epic parties, suck the marrow out of life, and cook better than your grandmother. Eric takes readers deep into his foodscape with chapters on topics like circle foods (burgers, tacos), grandma foods (pasta, meatballs), and juicy foods (steak, ribs). Alongside recipes for Chicken Parm with Nonna Sauce, Personal Pan Pep Pep, and Crudite Extreme with Dill Dippers, you will discover which eight cocktail recipes you should know by heart, how to saber a bottle of bubbly, and what you need to do to achieve handmade pasta perfection at home.

Freeze: Super-Nourishing Meals to Batch Cook, Freeze and Eat on Demand by Ruby Bell and Milly Bagot was published in the UK last month. ByRuby have developed the very best ways to get the most out of your food when it is frozen. They will offer practical tips, hacks and suggestions to ensure freezer cooking is fool-proof for everyone. With instructions on how best to defrost, reheat or cook direct from the freezer, this is convenient cooking that will enable the whole family to eat well when they have little time to spare. Even with limited cooking ability, by making big batches of delicious food and filling your freezer, you can have healthy meals every single day of the week, without any of the usual stress.

French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre by the Team of Chefs at Lenôtre Paris is being published in France this month and will arrive in the US in November. This is a new edition of the now cult cookbook – first published in English in 1977 as Lenôtre’s Desserts and Pastries. It has been updated in collaboration with the chefs at Lenôtre Paris and two of the founder’s children. Two hundred essential recipes include crois­sants, éclairs, crêpes, mille-feuilles, baba au rhum, molten chocolate cake, lemon meringue pie, and mango tartlet. The chefs at Lenôtre Paris, who run a world-class cooking school, have adapted the recipes for amateur bakers and experienced professionals alike who seek inspiration from the rich tradition of Lenôtre’s French pâtisserie.

Good Housekeeping: The Best-Ever Cookie Book: 100 Tested-’til-Perfect Recipes for Crispy, Chewy & Ooey-Gooey Treats by Good Housekeeping Editors: In this photo-packed cookbook, the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen has compiled the best-ever collection of cookies – rolled, sliced, dropped, iced and more! – so you can easily find your soulmate in sweetness. Plus, a chapter devoted to holiday cookies will become your go-to for celebrations all year round–and will make your countdown to Christmas the most indulgent one yet. Recipes range from favorite classics to elaborate showstoppers along with tips and tricks for decorating, big-batch baking, and gifting ideas, too. Whether you’re baking for a special occasion or just for a sweet treat, you’ll find tons of inspiration from the gorgeous photographs, clever ideas from the Test Kitchen, and delicious recipes and inventive variations that all come out perfectly every single time.

Instantly Mediterranean: Vibrant, Satisfying Recipes for Your Instant Pot®, Electric Pressure Cooker, and Air Fryer by Emily Paster brings the many advantages of electric pressure cookers and air fryers to Mediterranean cuisine, one of the most popular and healthy global diets. These 100 Instant Pot and air fryer recipes are perfect for every meal of the day, from soups and starters to mains and desserts, and feature recipes from all around the Mediterranean. Including basics on both appliances, as well as stocking a Mediterranean pantry, this beautifully photographed book will help you get a nourishing, flavorful meal on the table faster than ever with foolproof recipes the whole family will enjoy.

Japanese Cuisine: An Illustrated Guide by Laurie Kie: From how to use Japanese knives, chopsticks and cooking vessels, to familiar and unusual seafood (and seaweed!), Japanese vegetables, fruits and soy, this book covers it all. The illustrations are clear, atmospheric and empowering. The text runs from ingredients and places to buy them, to simple dishes and whole meals.

Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook by Joshua Weissman: In 2014, Joshua, at age 18, had his first cookbook published The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook. He had lost 100 pounds as a teenager and began a blog which led to the publication of that cookbook. He has grown into a celebrity chef with a YouTube channel sporting 5 million subscribers. For such a relatively young man, he has wisdom to spare. He begins the book by stating that the most important tool you can own is culinary intuition (and not an avocado slicer that can only do one thing). Beyond that cooking has no rules at all. “It’s time to stop putting the past on a pedestal, and just make something that’s f____ing delicious.” Joshua teaches us to build a foundation, learn the basics, make things when you can from scratch, and then grow from there. You aren’t going to find a recipe for some totally unique, exotic dish here – you will find recipes that are perfected and broken down for novice cooks to master and for experienced cooks to build stronger skills. Buy this book for yourself, for your kids, for your friends and get to work. No excuses, no apologies.

Lemon Love & Olive Oil by Mina Stone, author of the cult-favorite Cooking for Artists, returns with a collection of 80 new recipes inspired by her traditional Greek heritage and her years of cooking for some of New York’s most innovative artists. This is another gorgeous book filled with illustrations, photographs and fresh, vibrant dishes such as Pasta with toasted almond and lemon pesto; Pulled chicken with coriander and cumin and Cacio e pepe-inspired kale salad.

Life Is What You Bake It by Vallery Lomas: This first offering from a winner of The Great American Baking Show is pure brilliance. The book is divided into chapters beginning with morning treats, followed by en France, cookies and bars, and so forth. The first recipe is for the tallest, most flaky biscuit I have ever laid eyes on and it just gets better. I was in love with this book when I saw the galley but when you hold the book in your hands – it is just amazing. On the best cookbook list of 2021! Bakers start your ovens – you need this title! Events

Liguria: The Cookbook: Recipes from the Italian Riviera by Laurel Evans: The award-winning author and food writer has been immersed in the cuisine of Liguria for 15 years, ever since her Italian boyfriend (now husband, and the photographer for this book) brought her to his family’s hillside villa in Moneglia on the Mediterranean coast. There, she delved into the kitchens, restaurants, and markets, building relationships with the chefs, shopkeepers, producers, and grandmothers who drive the local cuisine. This book showcases all that she discovered: a cuisine that is beautiful but humble, plant-based and waste-conscious at its core, with a particular spirit and history that she unravels for readers new to the region. This is an absolute stunning book sure to make it on my best cookbooks of 2021.

Macedonia: The Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Balkans by Katerina Nitsou: The cuisine of Northern Macedonia is a rich mosaic of influences from the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the neighboring countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Known for its opulent family meals, the regional dishes play important symbolic roles in local traditions and family celebrations. I first reviewed this book when Katerina self-published it in 2016. I am thrilled that this title can be shared on a broader stage. It is a love letter to Macedonian culture, and a cuisine deeply rooted in its land and traditions. Over 100 mouthwatering recipes for mezze dishes, salads, soups, fish, poultry, meat, vegetables, and delicious sweets and preserves, that share the authentic flavors and wisdom of the mountainous villages of Northern Macedonia. Coupled with beautiful photography of the food, people, and landscapes of this area, this cookbook captures the country’s essence and belongs on the kitchen shelf of every food lover.

Malibu Farm: Sunrise to Sunset by Helene Henderson contains 85 original recipes for everything you could want to eat all day, complete with breezy beach vibes, simple Swedish sensibility, and wholesome cooking, from the beloved Malibu Farm restaurant chef and owner. Malibu Farm Cookbook, Helene’s first cookbook was published in 2016 and is just as lovely. With essays sprinkled throughout the book, Helene explores her memories from her home in Sweden, shares insights from the restaurant, and focuses on the joys of a life by the water.

Naturally, Delicious Dinners by Danny Seo, editor-in-chief of Naturally, returns with a cookbook dedicated to those who want to live healthily and choose foods mindfully. Packed with real nutritional value, these dinners don’t skimp on taste: they are rich, enticing, and filling. This title combines favorite veggie main meals, one-pot meals, pasta, salad, soup, dessert, and bread recipes from previous magazine editions. There are approximately 100 recipes and over 100 photos.

Once Upon a Chef: Weekend/Weeknight by Jennifer Segal: Years before she started her popular Once Upon a Chef blog, back when she became a new mom, Segal kept a recipe binder divided into two sections: Weeknight and Weekend. This is how she thought about what to cook for dinner, and, fifteen years later, it still is. Featuring seventy all-new dishes plus thirty fan favorites from her blog each recipe is tested and retested multiple times in Jenn’s home kitchen to ensure they are reliable, delicious, and sure to please every night of the week.

One-Hour Comfort: Quick, Cozy, Modern Dishes for All Your Cravings by America’s Test Kitchen makes finding easy satisfaction in globally inspired recipes for crispy, cheesy, meaty, carby, and sweet comfort foods a breeze – the book is filled with dishes that are quick and comforting.

Peace, Love, and Pasta: Simple and Elegant Recipes from a Chef’s Home Kitchen by Scott Conant: Here you will find a cookbook of restaurant-quality Italian meals that can be made easily in our own home kitchens. Thirty years into an illustrious career of restaurant openings across the country, widespread acclaim, and frequent appearances on the Food Network’s Chopped, Conant has returned home to create his most personal cookbook yet. Meals cooked from simple, fresh ingredients were staples of his childhood in a New England family with roots in southern Italy. As is true with most Italian chefs, simple is best and Conant brings that motto home in this beautifully photographed cookbook.

Southern Sugar by Belinda Smith-Sullivan: You don’t have to be from the South to embrace the food – especially the sweets. There is just something about Southern treats that appeal to the hearts, souls, and stomachs of everyone! Just think of decadent, sweet delights filled with lots of sugar, butter, nuts, and fruit, or dripping with chocolate, caramel, whipped cream, and yes, even bourbon! Belinda brings 100 recipes for all manner of desserts.

Spectacular Spreads: 50 Amazing Food Spreads for Any Occasion by Maegan Brown: In this follow-up to her best-selling Beautiful Boards, Maegan Brown takes her super-popular snack boards to the next level by filling a table or kitchen counter with 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-put-together food spreads and DIY bars for all occasions.

Spirits of the Otherworld: A Grimoire of Occult Cocktails and Drinking Rituals by Allison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett: Astrology, tarot, palmistry, and other spiritual arts are having a moment and that includes the spirits we enjoy during cocktail hour. With this deeply researched collection of intoxicating treats, readers will be able to mix a drink that reflects their interests and satisfies their curiosity. Over the course of five chapters, the authors map out esoteric philosophies that have fueled the dark arts of their times. Each recipe is presented in a double-page spread that includes an engaging history, clear instructions, and original photography.

Tasting Vietnam: Flavors and Memories from My Grandmother’s Kitchen by Anne-Solenne Hatte presents the mouthwatering recipes for traditional Vietnamese home cooking collected by Bà, her maternal grandmother. This book is an homage to Vietnamese cuisine, with its emphasis on fresh ingredients, bright flavor combinations, zesty sauces, and reputation for healthfulness with vegetables and salads at center stage.

The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook: 400+ Recipes for Warming Dinners, Holiday Roasts, Seasonal Desserts, Breads, Food Gifts, and More by America’s Test Kitchen is the book for those who mark off each day on the calendar until those first brisk days of autumn arrive. While many of us enjoy cooking and baking all year long, there is something cozy and comforting in turning on the oven and working in the kitchen while the windows steam up from the warmth of delicious creations. This book is for those cooler weather fans (me!) and shares a wealth of recipes for each and every occasion.

Upper Crust: Homemade Bread the French Way by Marie-Laure Frechet is très magnifique (that is the extent of my French, well that and Oui, which I know because it is also my favorite yogurt brand). Seriously, this is a stunner of a book filled with inspiration for all things bread. It is being released in France this month and in the US in November. Eighteen bakers share their knowledge and recipes in this magnificent book that is a cookbook, a piece of art, and a trip to the best of bakeries in the world. The first 200 pages are devoted to the mechanics and technique of bread baking: scoring, kneading and more with a wealth of information and photographs. The recipes start on page 201 and they are impressive and labeled per difficulty level. There is a chapter on traditional breads from all around the world, such as pita, focaccia, bagels, Georgian khachapuri, and Norwegian polar bread are reinterpreted in the French style. This will be a must have for the bread baker – beginner or experienced – it is a keeper.

The Kitchen Whisperers by Dorothy Kalins: The founding editor of Savuer magazine, calls the people who pass on their cooking wisdom her Kitchen Whisperers. Consciously or not, they help make us the cooks we are—and help show the way to the kind of cooks we have the potential to become. Dorothy’s prolific career in food media means many of her Kitchen Whisperers are some of the best chefs around (though the lessons she’s learned from fellow home cooks are just as important). For Dorothy, a lifetime of exposure to incredible cooks and chefs means that she can’t enter her kitchen without hearing the voices of mentors and friends with whom she cooked over the years as they reveal their favorite techniques.

The Maman Cookbook: All-Day Recipes to Warm Your Heart by Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte: “Maman” means mother in French. The owners of the elegant and charming New York City-based collection of cafés share the recipes of some of their bestselling baked goods and dishes alongside brand-new ones. This collection of 100 recipes spans breakfast to dessert and everything in between, all united by the sense of family-inspired tradition. Cherry-rosemary crumble, Brandy brioche French toast with espresso mascarpone and Curried cauliflower with pickled cucumbers, pomegranate and mint yogurt are a few examples. This book is all kinds of beautiful.

The Pie and Tart Collection by Brian Hart Hoffman is drool worthy! Eggnog custard tart, Sparkling wine chocolate ganache tart and Butterscotch pie with coconut curry crust are a few examples of the recipes. I particularly love the Around the World in Pies chapter with fifty pages of global temptation.

The White Lily Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes Using the Southern Chef’s Flour of Choice by White Lily Flour features over 70 of their most loved recipes from the White Lily Test Kitchen. This cookbook explores biscuit history and time-honored techniques, woven together with striking photography. At this time, this book can only be ordered directly from the company website and is scheduled to ship around September 15th. I have not reviewed this book yet but as many of us love White Lily flour, I’d thought you’d like to know.

Every Cake Has a Story by Christina Tosi is the story of a girl whose delicious dream comes to life, filling the world with color, creativity, and joy. Original recipe included! A perfect gift for that special child this holiday season.

Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi takes young readers on an intergenerational journey full of delicious flavors and fun food facts that celebrates a family’s treasured recipes. This beautiful children’s book lovingly affirms how we can connect to other cultures, as well as to our own, through food.

The Modern Larder: From Anchovies to Yuzu, a Guide to Artful and Attainable Home Cooking by Michelle McKenzie proves that one ingredient can change the nature of a dish, elevating it from flat to transcendent. With 58 ingredient profiles and more than 260 recipes and variations featuring those ingredients, learn to harness the power of your pantry to make dishes extraordinary. Undeniably inspiring yet also happily pragmatic, The Modern Larder will change your approach to cooking and elevate your everyday meals.

Trisha’s Kitchen: Simple Recipes for Everyday Life by Trisha Yearwood features 125 recipes including dishes her beloved mother used to make, plus new recipes like Pasta pizza snack mix and Garth’s teriyaki bowl. Every recipe tells a story, whether it’s her grandma’s Million dollar cupcakes, or her Camo cake that she made for her nephew’s birthday, Trisha shows us that simple can still be special. Events

Y’all Come Over: Charming Your Guests with New Recipes, Heirloom Treasures, and True Southern Hospitality by Rebecca Lang is an invitation to embrace your inner host, prepare delicious plates, and create a fun, comfortable setting for any occasion with confidence and style. Foolproof recipes for fresh, new Southern classics and timetables make menu planning a breeze. From putting together the invite list to using family treasures to create a beautiful table to stocking the bar for every budget and preparing a memorable meal in the kitchen, Rebecca walks you through each step and offers friendly advice for every gathering and age group.

Healing Herbal Soups: Boost Your Immunity and Weather the Seasons with Traditional Chinese Recipes by Rose Cheung and Genevieve Wong: Combining the trends of culinary medicine and seasonal eating and adding a dash of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this title focuses on boosting immunity and weathering the seasons, by a mother-daughter, Chinese-American duo. Rose and Genevieve have been making Chinese herbal soups in their kitchens all their lives. They made broths to help their bodies adapt to the seasons, and now, for the first time, they’re translating these traditional recipes – all of which have been vetted by Dr. Shiu Hon Chui, a preeminent TCM doctor, researcher, and professor – into English. Also included is a complete herbal encyclopedia and more than fifty tasty recipes – with full-color photographs – that mix herbs with meat and vegetables to create healing broths. These easy-to-follow recipes are here for you whenever you feel unwell, or if you’re just looking to add healthy soups to your weekly meal rotation.

The Little Pine Cookbook: Modern Plant-Based Comfort by Moby takes readers inside Little Pine, a vegan hot spot in Southern California which was originally owned by Moby. Here is a collection of 125 recipes inspired by the restaurant’s beloved dishes. Gateway recipes like Panko-crusted piccata will wow even the hardest-to-please meat lovers. And veg-forward small plates like Fried cauliflower with kimchi aioli will become staples on your menu. Desserts are covered as well with recipes such as Butterscotch pudding or Chocolate bread pudding.

Modernist Cuisine: The Art & Science of Cooking – 10th Anniversary Edition by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet is a reprint of the original now with a steel slipcase. The original set was housed in a heavy plastic book case. For those who already have the books and wish to purchase a steel slipcase, one may be ordered via Amazon. Reminder, just a few short weeks until Modernist Pizza is released. Events are on our calendar with more to be added.

Other books published this month:

• Sourdough Culture by Eric Pallant
• Amish Christmas Cookbook: Authentic Desserts, Breads, Casseroles, Salads, and More
• One Pot: Wholesome, Time-Saving Everyday Recipes by Australian Women’s Weekly – US release, published in UK in August
• Desserts: The Ultimate Cookbook by the editors of Cider Mill Press
• The Viennese Kitchen: 10th Anniversary edition: Tante Hertha’s Book of Family Recipes by Monica Meehan and Maria Von Baich (reissue of Tante Hertha’s Viennese Kitchen )
• The Date Night Cookbook by Ned and Ariel Fulmer
• The Big Book of Jo’s Quick and Easy Meals – Includes 200 recipes and 200 photos! by Joanna Cismaru
• Easy Low-Cal Vegan Eats: 60 Flavor-Packed Recipes with Less Than 400 Calories Per Serving by Jillian Glenn
• A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits by Shanna Farrell
• Instant Pot Vegan Indian Cookbook: 80 Quick and Easy Plant-Based Favorites by Meena Agarwal
• The Ultimate 5-Ingredient Cookbook: Whole Food Flavorful Meals Made Simple by Rebecca Wright
• The Quick Fix Kitchen: Easy Recipes and Time-Saving Tips for a Healthier, Stress-Free Life: A Cookbook by Tia Mowry
• The Stay-at-Home Chef Slow Cooker Cookbook: 120 Restaurant-Quality Recipes You Can Easily Make at Home by Rachel Farnsworth
• The Tiny Kitchen Cookbook: Strategies and Recipes for Creating Amazing Meals in Small Spaces by Annie Mahle
• The Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists by America’s Test Kitchen Kids

Canada

Cook More, Waste Less: Zero-Waste Recipes to Use Up Groceries, Tackle Food Scraps, and Transform Leftovers by Christine Tizzard offers accessible solutions to a problem every home cook faces: waste. From grocery shopping tips to pantry storage ideas, this book is packed with strategies to get the most out of your food, whether it’s fresh or frozen, ingredients a little past their prime, or leftovers. Inside there are over 100 adaptable recipes to enjoy, with plenty of flexibility for substitutions. Turn leftover broccoli and Swiss chard stems into a delicious au gratin. Use up your parmesan rinds in a soothing broth. Make a mouthwatering pot roast and turn the leftovers into a savory pie or beefy black lentil stew. Leftover rice? Rice pudding. Fruit going soft? Anything can be a marmalade. There are even ideas for face scrubs and dog treats.

United Kingdom

How to Cook by Darina Allen: Ireland’s grande dame has a new book offering recipes that we all must have in our repertoire . Darina is all about healthy, sustainable family food and this is her up-to-date take on what a new generation needs to know for creating tasty, nutritious, waste-less dishes at home. Darina’s mission is to ensure that no one should leave home or create a home without knowing the basics of how to create good food from scratch using healthy ingredients.

Together: Memorable Meals, Made Easy by Jamie Oliver will be released in the US on November 4th. Jamie has dedicated this book to health workers everywhere. Together is a celebration of food and how food, family and cooking has made the last couple of years more bearable. Starting out with a gorgeous Honey focaccia in the first chapter – Brunch Party – and ending with an Elegant piña colada in the Wonder of Cocktails, the book is organized by occasions. Table for Two, Cozy Indulgence, and Last Minute Feast are other examples of said occasions. The book ends with charts of nutritional information (calories, carbs, sugar amounts and more) about each recipe. Jamie has a Cookbook Club on Facebook which I have added to our Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup.

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad: This book is the first in an innovative new series for the busy home cook. All the signature Ottolenghi touches are here – big flavours, veggie-forward dishes, diverse influences – but are distilled to maximise ease and versatility. The #OTK books will share the Test Kitchen’s tried-and-tested recipes, with ways to tweak and modify them using whatever ingredients you have to hand. Designed in an interactive notebook style, they feature suggestions to adapt, spaces to write notes, and free-flowing Insta-inspired photography. Be sure to check out OTK’s YouTube series. Events

Good Housekeeping Brilliant Baking: 130 Delicious Recipes from Britain’s Most Trusted Kitchen: Good Housekeeping has been creating tried, tested, and trusted recipes for Britain’s home cooks for over 100 years. With more and more people picking up the rolling pin, this book provides over 130 easy to follow recipes for today’s baker. From sweet treats to savoury meals, breads to tarts, there’s something for every occasion and palate. A special free-from section caters to those with allergies and food intolerance. And chapters on Christmas and holiday bakes makes celebrating even more delicious.

Family Comforts: Simple, Heartwarming Food to Enjoy Together by Rebeccca Wilson: With recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, there are ideas for quick-cook family food as well as indulgent but healthy slow cooks and baking ideas to spend mealtimes together around the table and still cook just once for everyone! Rebecca’s recipes are fresh, accessible, nutritious and most importantly for the whole family. Her philosophy is that parents can wean their babies by eating alongside them, adapting “grown-up” food for children of all ages from 6 months. The ultimate roast dinner with all the trimmings and hidden-veg slow-cooked meatballs appear alongside 15-minute meal ideas like quick beef stroganoff, easy cheesy garlic bread, and moreish peanut butter curry. In over 100 recipes, Rebecca Wilson will help you cook comfort food with ease, making extra time to spend with your friends and family.

10-Minute Sourdough: Breadmaking for Real Life by Vanessa Kimbell is a foolproof guide to making sourdough with just 10 minutes of hands-on work. It’s perfect for those with busy lives who have neither the time nor the patience to knead, stretch, fold and shape. Vanessa runs The Sourdough School in Northamptonshire, where she teaches sourdough breadmaking and baking classes to students from around the world. A regular BBC radio journalist in the UK, she is a third generation baker of Italian descent and trained in several French bakeries.

Ainsley’s Good Mood Food: 100 Easy, Comforting Meals by Ainsley Harriott includes all the recipes from Ainsley’s new ITV show – this book is all about food that makes us happy! Because there’s no two ways about it – food can definitely raise your spirits. In this uplifting cookbook you will find comforting classics, great food for sharing, recipes for a bit of indulgence, light and healthy dishes to help you feel good from the inside out, easy one-pots that are all weeknight winners, some favourite barbecue dishes to bring sunshine to your table, and delicious desserts because we all need a treat now and again.

At Home: My Favourite Recipes for Family & Friends by Monica Galetti: The author’s career has taken her from her home in Samoa and New Zealand to the professional kitchens of London. Her new cookbook showcases the easy, everyday dishes she enjoys at home, with family and friends, using simple ingredients that everyone will enjoy. From breakfast time and midweek suppers to celebrations, gatherings and the perfect Sunday lunch, At Home is a celebration of great home cooking.

Bowls and Broths: Season, Layer and Build Soothing Dishes From Scratch by Pippa Middlehurst is a super-fresh collection of broth-based recipes that will teach you how to season, layer and create versatile and exciting dishes from scratch. Learn more about this title in our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway.

Celebrate: Plant Based Recipes for Every Occasion by Bettina Campolucci Bordi is the perfect cookbook for every celebration and occasion – no matter if you’re vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian or will eat anything! Each occasion has dish pairing suggestions for a completely stress-free experience. Gluten-free, free-from and seasonal alternatives are provided for each recipe, so nobody is excluded.

Celebrate with Kim-Joy by Kim-Joy: Let Kim-Joy’s signature cuteness brighten your celebrations. From birthday cakes to year-round events, all occasions are covered! The 60 sweet recipes are bursting with color, imagination and fun and there’s something for everyone, no matter what level their baking skills are at.

Comfort MOB: Food That Makes You Feel Good: 100 Tasty Recipes from Around the World by Ben Lebus is a celebration of hearty dishes from around the world that warm, soothe and fill us. Spending time in the kitchen recreating comfort is a way to indulge in dishes from the past and find new flavour and texture combinations that appeal to our senses. I’m not sure if I’m just hungry or all these books are really tempting as can be. I remember when I received this book – I was drooling over the recipes which are the definition of comfort. Spicy chicken katsu, Miso onion soup with sesame Gruyère toast and Mob’s cheesy chips are a few examples. There is a 3 free recipe samples available on Amazon US sampler; UK sampler. (Recipes included are: Spaghetti and meatballs in nduja sauce, Ultimate cheeseburger and Miso sticky toffee pudding).

Poppy Cooks: The Food You Need by Poppy O’Toole: This is a cookbook with no judgement. Poppy starts with the basics: 12 core recipes (or go-to skills) that everyone needs to know, like how to make a pasta sauce, roast a chicken or make a killer salad dressing. Then you’ll use these core skills as a base for delicious and adaptable recipes that will up your cooking game – the Staple, the Brunch, the PotatoHero (of course they make an appearance) and the Fancy. So, once you’ve nailed the classic tomato sauce, you can stir it through pasta, or bake it with eggs for the perfect Shakshuka and, before you know it, you’ll be getting real fancy and making a show-stopping Chicken Parmigiana to impress your friends.

Essential by Ollie Dabbous: The best food is always the simplest, whether you are cooking at home or in a restaurant. Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous is here to help home cooks everywhere elevate go-to dishes into something special, through easy techniques, few pieces of equipment, and concise ingredients that work together to create the most delicious flavors. Organized by ingredient type, from Grains to Shellfish to Sugar and Honey, the 100 recipes here are all basics. Ranging from baked eggs, roasted vegetables, and flatbread to dishes with a bit more flare, like creamy spinach toast. Returning to the basics seems to be a theme this cookbook season.

Great British Chefs: Around the Table by Great British Chefs: After more than a year of lockdowns and social restrictions, the one thing many of us have missed most of all is enjoying food with the people we love. From casual get-togethers to all-out dinner parties we’re hungrier than ever before to cook for others, and this book provides all the recipes and inspiration you’ll ever need to make your next gathering a culinary triumph. Featuring 70 brand-new recipes divided into seven chapters, the latest from GBC combines cheffy twists with comforting, shareable dishes that are perfect for all manner of occasions. Our friends at GBC are offering EYB members a special code EYBTABLE10 to use at checkout for 10 percent off a print or e-book of Around the Table.

How to Bake Anything Gluten-Free: Over 100 Recipes for Everything from Cakes to Cookies, Doughnuts to Desserts, Bread to Festive Bakes by Becky Excell: Are you avoiding gluten but yearn for fluffy cakes, fresh bread, warm donuts, sticky pastries and gooey brownies? Here Becky shows you how turn your kitchen into your own personal gluten-free bakery – but nothing tastes or looks “gluten-free”! Becky has spent years developing delicious recipes and sharing them with her followers on Instagram. She is here to show you that a gluten-free life can be exciting and simple, without having to miss out on your favorite bakes ever again.

Lazy Baking: Easy Recipes for Morning, Noon and Night by Jessica Elliott Dennison: From the bestselling author of Tin Can Magic and Salad Feasts, comes a fuss-free time-saving baking cookbook for any time of the day. Think one-cup pancakes for breakfast, sausage rolls for lunch, grapefruit drizzle loaf to fix that afternoon craving and impressive baked crispbreads for wine. There are also plenty of tips scattered throughout, including ideas of what ingredients can be substituted or how to fix issues that might occur. Jessica has an event scheduled at Portobello in Edinburgh on Oct 1st and another event scheduled at Topping and Company in Edinburgh on Oct 5th.

The Sweet Roasting Tin: One Tin Cakes, Cookies & Bakes by Rukmini Iyer: The queen of “tin” cookery has now written a book devoted to desserts/baking. I had to order this book as I know Rukmini is a member favorite and I am all about the baking books. The author divides the recipes into Traybakes; Muffin tins; Loaf tins; Brownies; Cookies; Crumbles, tarts and cobblers; Bread & butter puddings; Minimal baking; Cupcakes; Dough; High days and holidays; and finishes with a chapter on Gluten-free, vegan & diabetic friendly recipes. The content here is lovely with mostly sweet recipes but a splash of savoury as well – Chocolate and rosemary loaf; Marzipan lemon and cardamom loaf; and Black pepper, cheddar and sage muffins. Events

Med: A Cookbook by Claudia Roden: Claudia is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. Over thirty years on from her first Mediterranean cookbook, Claudia shares the sun-soaked simplicity of the Mediterranean with new recipes for effortless, everyday cooking. This is how the author cooks for friends and family – always putting flavour first, beautiful ingredients, fuss-free cooking, relaxed eating. This book will be released in October in the US.

Rick Stein at Home: Recipes, Memories and Stories from a Food Lover’s Kitchen by Rick Stein: Here the author takes stock of his remarkable life and takes us into the rhythms and rituals of his home cooking. In his first book to celebrate his all-time favourite home-cooked meals, Rick shares over 100 very special recipes – from family classics that evoke childhood memories to newer dishes that have marked more recent personal milestones – along with unforgettable stories that celebrate his favourite ingredients, food memories, family cooking moments and more.

Pizza Express Homemade Favourites: Over 100 Favourite Recipes to Make at Home by Pizza Express shares over 100 delicious, Italian inspired PizzaExpress recipe favourites that bring the UK’s most popular restaurant brand straight to your home.

The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating: An A-Z of Zero-Waste Eating For the Mindful Vegan by Ellen Tout is the ultimate guide to zero-waste and sustainable cookery by showing us how to make use of every leftover, scrap and glut of vegan food in delicious, nutritious and inspiring ways. What is “compleating”? Completely eating every part of a fruit or vegetable! Plant-based diets are a wonderful way to protect the planet, but fruits and vegetables still have carbon footprints, and often the parts we throw away or compost are the most nutritious and delicious bits. Ellen Tout, sustainability expert and dedicated vegan, is passionate about maximizing the benefits of veganism, and through just a few simple tips, tricks and ingenious recipes she can revolutionize the way you cook.

The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for All Seasons by Paul Hollywood and The Bake Off Team is The Great British Bake Off’s ode to nature, packed with timely bakes lovingly created to showcase seasonal ingredients and draw inspiration from the changing moods and events of the year. Whether you’re looking to make the best of asparagus in spring, your prize strawberries in summer, pumpkin in autumn or blood oranges in winter, these recipes – from Prue, Paul, the Bake Off team and the 2021 bakers themselves – offer insight and inspiration throughout the year. From celebration cakes to traybakes, loaf cakes, and breads to pies, tarts and pastries, this book shows you how to make the very best of what each season has to offer.

The Italian Bakery: Step-by-Step Recipes with The Silver Spoon by The Silver Spoon Kitchen is the first volume in the Silver Spoon library to focus on dolci – the Italian term for all sweet treats. Dishes found in bakeries throughout Italy’s diverse regions come to life in 140 accessible classic and contemporary patisserie recipes with step-by-step photography, geared toward novices and experienced bakers alike. Filled with cakes, pastries, pies, cookies, sweets and chocolates, and frozen puddings, the collection showcases a wide range of delectable desserts suitable for everyday indulgences and special-occasion celebrations – the Italian way.

The Kitchen Cabinet: An Almanac for Food Lovers: Fill Your Year with Regional Recipes, Places, Festivals and Much More by Annie Gray: Dr. Gray is the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet. Now, the official compendium from that program is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life of The Kitchen Cabinet. Open up to find food tips and tricks, stories, recipes, anecdotes and seasonal fun, all held together with trademark titbits of history, science and often rather lively debate.

The Modern Preserver’s Kitchen: Cooking with Your Preserves by Kylee Newton shares over 30 recipes for jams, chutneys, ferments and pickles, and 70 dishes in which to use them. This is an ideal cookbook for those who want to make the most of each season’s offerings. Kylee offers preserving classes in the UK and we’ve added that information to our calendar. Promotion coming soon.

Tools for Food: The Stories Behind the Objects that Influence How and What We Eat by Corinne Mynatt explores the history of 250 of our most-loved and intriguing kitchen items and how they’ve changed the way we live. From 12th century Mongolian fire pots, to 17th century Chinese scissors, from beloved Tupperware food containers to the iconic Alessi lemon squeezer, this culinary journey covers well-loved designs, as well as lesser known objects. The reader will be taken on a journey around the globe, exploring how and what we cook has changed over the centuries, showing similarities and diversity across times and cultures. From primitive necessities to specialised high-tech equipment, each image is accompanied by a text detailing its origin, as well as interesting facts about its relationship between culture and cooking.

Fridge Raid: Flexible, Kitchen-Foraged Recipes for Low-Waste Meals by Megan Davies: Want to save time, money and energy by using up your existing food stocks rather than constantly grocery shopping and then struggling to use up leftovers? Here Megan Davies shows how, by helping you develop intuition for using what you already have in your kitchen. She shares her vibrant, accessible and, most importantly, flexible recipes for kitchen-foraged meals that can be rustled up just by looking in the fridge or store cupboard.

The Baileys Cookbook: Bakes, Cakes and Treats for All Seasons by Baileys offers more than 60 recipes to take you year-round with Baileys, from scrumptious cocktails and sensational desserts to five-star hot chocolates and simple puddings with a twist. Mouth-watering truffles, delectable rocky road, luscious ripple ice cream, decadent s’mores and dreamy cheesecakes – all perfect for a moment of pure pleasure.

Two’s Company: The Best of Cooking for Couples, Friends and Roommates by Orlando Murrin is a book with a positive message that cooking for two is exciting, fun and worthwhile. Most of those cooking for two are forced either to scale down recipes or repeatedly contend with a fridge full of leftovers. Supermarkets have identified this trend, and provide a lavish choice of ready meals aimed at twosomes. But there is still a lack of inspiration for those of us who want to cook something fresh from scratch for a partner or friend. Here Orlando Murrin not only brings you original recipes but sets out the different ‘rules’ to consider when cooking for two. He suggests ways to shop sensibly to minimize waste and shares ingenious tips for shortcuts and techniques, gleaned from working with professional chefs and food stylists.

Wagamama Your Way: Fresh Flexible Recipes for Body + Mind by Wagamama Limited features more than 70 fresh and vibrant recipes to nourish and inspire. Designed to be flexible for everyday, the dishes include fast and slow meals, store cupboard ‘throw togethers’ and considered classics. From vegan katsu curry and vegetarian firecracker to mandarin + sesame salad, prawn tempura ramen, and sticky mushroom and squash stir fry, expect to find new variations on wagamama favourites as well as nourishing quick eats and soulful comfort food. Chapters include ‘fast + fun + easy’, ‘bowls of goodness’, ‘ways with the wok’ and ‘sides + sauces + pickles’. Many of the recipes are vegan, and there are also alternative ingredient suggestions so you can create plant-based versions of meat dishes.

The Hebridean Baker: Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands by Coinneach MacLeod: Coinneach has nearly 10 million views of his recipe and lifestyle videos on TikTok. His unique style and wholesome and delicious traditional Scottish bakes have won him fans around the globe. Here he shares both his fabulous recipes and fascinating stories of island life, offering a true taste of Scotland’s wild and windswept Outer Hebrides. I had to order this one! Coinneach has an event at Topping and Company on Oct 29th.

Australia

Everything I Love to Cook by Neil Perry gives us 250 recipes with tips and techniques to set you up for success every time. This is a masterclass from one of the most brilliant Australian chefs of our time. Lovely photography and a wealth of culinary information are shared here. The book will be released next month in the UK; and in November in the US.

Festive: Recipes for Advent by Julia Stix: The anticipation of Christmas and the excitement of Advent bring out the cook in everyone, whether you’re making nibbles to serve with drinks for friends, planning your holiday season menu or baking heartfelt gifts for loved ones. From panettone and jam cookies, to nourishing salmon and potatoes, pumpkin wellington and a warming ginger punch, here are 24 seasonal recipes to add festive deliciousness to your celebrations and personal touch to your gift-giving.

Home by Stephanie Alexander is a collection of more than 200 original recipes each a finely crafted tribute to Stephanie’s passions and preferences for produce and flavour, and each reflects her consummate skill in communicating the fundamentals of technique. There are detailed recipes for the more ambitious home cook, but also simple ways to combine beautiful ingredients to make dishes for everyday eating. Essays on people, places and experiences offer inspiration to readers looking to deepen their knowledge and appreciation of food. Beautifully designed and photographed, Home is a celebration of the sensual and social delights of food and an essential addition to any kitchen shelf. The recipes – classic, masterful and delicious – will be cooked, shared and enjoyed for years to come.

Feast: 100 Generous Dishes to Share by Miguel Maestre: In Feast, Miguel shares his absolute favourite recipes to enjoy with family and friends. There are big, satisfying dinners as well as lots of smaller dishes to mix and match in classic share-plate style. Miguel’s food is a loving nod to the dishes of his Spanish heritage, but is also very firmly based in the modern Australian kitchen. Whether you’re getting together for brunch, looking for something fast on a weeknight or to try some new dishes for a family celebration, there are so many bold and exciting flavours here to discover. These are generous meals from a big-hearted chef who knows that simple, good food makes everyone smile.

3D Munchies: Three-Dimensional Recipes to Satisfy Them Cravings by Eli George: Strap in for a journey: they say seeing is believing, and this book is here to let you visualize those cheesy nacho crevasses and the crispiness of those potato chips before they even hit the plate. With half-baked smaller snacks to fully loaded, pop-off-the-page carbs, with a whole section for anyone with a sweet tooth, this book is here to satiate all your senses with fried and baked goodness. Includes 3D glasses, heaps of diet-unfriendly recipes, and some chocolate-dipped, over the top visuals.

Italian Street Food: Recipes from Italy’s Bars and Hidden Laneways by Paola Bacchia is being reissued this month. Italian Street Food was first published in 2016.

Good Food in Fresh Air: Recipes for Outdoor Dining, Picnics, Barbecues and Camping by Katy Holder: Bringing together the best of food writer and stylist Katy Holder’s recipes from A Moveable Feast and Hungry Campers Cookbook, this collection offers 50 recipes that are accessible, interesting and contemporary. There are mini morsels such as sesame-crusted tuna squares that are perfect for parties, salads and filled baguettes that are ideal for picnics, and lamb shoulder done over the campfire that would be a hit on any camping trip. There’s also a chapter for kids’ cooking and desserts to finish.

New Zealand

Salad: 70 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion by Margo and Rosa Flanagan: All eaters are welcome in this cookbook, with recipes suitable for anyone and everyone, whether you’re gluten free, dairy free, plant-based, flexitarian, FODMAP or an absolute meat lover. There are more than 70 versatile recipes to suit everyone’s tastebuds and dietary requirements – from garlic zucchini with mint pine nut salsa; to pumpkin, lentil avocado with roasted lemon oil; spiced eggplant, butter beans and pomegranate tahini; to something a little different – extraordinary sweet salads such as walnut and date baked pears with dulce de leche.

Healthy Kelsi: Simple Vibrant Plant-Based Food by Kelsi Boocock is bursting with colour and packed with travel and lifestyle photos as well as over 100 different plant-based recipes. Kelsi draws culinary inspiration from her adventurous lifestyle – infusing her recipes with the flavours and cooking methods of Indonesia, Italy and Japan, as well as Fiji, where she spent part of her childhood. There is also a dedicated section that covers staple ingredients, substitutes for those who are gluten- or nut-free and understanding your food sources.