January 2023 New Cookbook Review

January 25, 2023 by
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Welcome to 2023 – I have been doing small previews on some of 2023 titles in our Weekly Roundups and I will continue to update my 2023 preview listing. Look for a Spring 2023 preview in February.

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Lastly, if events are planned for particular books/authors, I have included a link. Be sure to check our Calendar frequently for new entries there are loads of events around the world as more in-person and virtual events are being planned.

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United States

For the Love of Seafood: 100 Flawless, Flavorful Recipes That Anyone Can Cook by Karista Bennett provides 100 irresistible recipes to teach seafood literacy one meal at a time. Organized by difficulty, the three chapters of this book begin with short ingredient lists and steps, featuring recipes like Simple Fish Meuniere and Basic Pan-Cooked Sea Scallops. And as confidence grows, more complicated methods and exciting new ingredients appear in Roasted Salmon with Savory Strawberry Sauce, Grilled Shrimp Tacos, Lobster Rolls, Curried Halibut Cakes, and more. With bright photography and tips on sustainability and flavor pairings, this book is essential reading (and tasting) for anyone looking to improve their seafood game at home.

Win Son Presents a Taiwanese American Cookbook by Josh Ku, Trigg Brown & Cathy Erways explores and celebrates the cuisine of Taiwan and its ever-simmering pot of creative influences. Told through the eyes, taste buds, travels, and busy lives of Ku, Brown, and Erway, this book brings the cuisine of this misunderstood island nation into the spotlight. With 100 creative, yet accessible recipes, this book will unravel the history and influences of this diaspora cuisine. While featuring classic dishes and well-known favorites, this cookbook also stretches this cuisine’s definition, introducing new dishes with brazen twists. In the true spirit of Taiwanese cooking, the recipes draw inspiration from their surroundings, creating food that reflects the culinary cultural impression Taiwan has made on each of the authors. This book serves up recipes that are fun, flavorful, and decidedly American-born in style.

The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook: Mostly Vegetarian Comfort Food That Happens to Be Pretty Good for You by Noah Galuten serves up convenient, healthily delicious, mostly vegetarian comfort food, teaching you how to prepare meals and snacks you’re genuinely excited to eat.

Eating from Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World by Maya Feller highlights nourishing dishes from around the world with a focus on whole and minimally processed ingredients prepared with spices and flavor-enhancing techniques at home. She shares thoughtful and realistic ways to think about how we relate to food, along with nutrition highlights and tips throughout. Maya makes it easy to enjoy the vibrant flavors of your favorite cuisine, whether that’s the foods you grew up eating in the family kitchen or new recipes you’re discovering for the first time.

Table for Two: Recipes to Romance the Ones You Love by Bre Graham showcases recipes to cook for the people you love. These dishes are for the days when you want to set the table for two and focus on someone special. From uncomplicated-but-outstanding in Part I, to over-the-top-but-no-stress cooking in Part II, Table for Two helps you impress at breakfast, lunch, aperitivo, dinner, and dessert. With illustrated essays on topics like the simple pleasure of a delivery pizza, and breathtaking, multi-course menus catering for special occasions, Table for Two guides you through the moments you want to say: “I love you, let me feed you something that will make you feel good.”

One: Simple One-Pan Wonders by Jamie Oliver was published in the UK in September of 2022. The latest from Oliver guides us through over 120 recipes for tasty, fuss-free and satisfying dishes cooked in just one pan. What’s better: each recipe has just eight ingredients or fewer, meaning minimal prep (and washing up) and offering maximum convenience.
Packed with budget-friendly dishes you can rustle up any time, One has everything from delicious work from home lunches to quick dinners the whole family will love; from meat-free options to meals that will get novice cooks started.

The Vegetarian Reset: 75 Low-Carb, Plant-Forward Recipes from Around the World by Vasudha Viswanath; It can be hard for vegetarians to eat healthily. Too often their diets revolve around refined carbs, in the form of bread, rice, and noodles, because raw salads fail to satisfy their appetites. In the Vegetarian Reset, each recipe draws strengths from traditional cuisines that are rich in whole foods—vegetables, legumes, and healthy fats. Then they take a little trip around the world and borrow flavors from a wide range of global cuisines, resulting in delicious low-carb, high-protein recipes that will keep you satiated. Bake healthy bread from scratch, make paella out of cauliflower rice, transform paneer into gnocchi, and sweeten brownies with dates! Whether you already follow a low-carb lifestyle or simply want to add more healthy dishes into your vegetarian rotation, these recipes will delight and inspire you to eat well and feel great.

The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts by Ken Albala: Once synonymous with food novelty, gelatin has re-emerged as an attention-grabbing element of creative cuisine and avant-garde drinkology. Ken Albala’s most fearless food exploration yet takes readers into the sublime world of aspics past and present. Blending history with his trademark zeal for experimentation, Albala traces gelatin’s ever-changing fortunes alongside one-of-a-kind recipes that inspire, delight, and terrify as only jello can do.

6 Spices, 60 Dishes: Indian Recipes That Are Simple, Fresh, and Big on Taste by Ruta Kahate: using just six spices – cayenne, coriander, cumin, turmeric, mustard seed, and asafetida – chef Ruta Kahate presents 60 delicious recipes that are easy to prepare and deliver rich, complex flavor. These dishes—including tons of nourishing veggies, raitas, grains, and dals—are fresh, healthy, and versatile enough to mix and match, plus they feature Instant Pot variations for maximum ease.

Taste Kitchen: Asia: Six Flavours to Suit Every Taste by Philli Armitage-Mattin was published in the UK in September of 2022 and will be released this month in the US. Philli’s popularity was born during the Master Chef Professional 2020 series. The first fifty pages of this title is loaded with information about Asian flavors, tips and tricks to obtain a proper pantry and tools needed. Each recipe shares a photograph; equipment needs and a QR code that lead to videos to teach certain skills and techniques. Recipes include The secret katsu dunkers; Satay prawns; Red pepper and kimchi rigatoni and Japanese cheesecake.

Sweet & Swiss: Desserts from the Heart of Europe by Heddi Nieuwsma is filled with desserts that will inspire and surprise your family and friends. Try a Schlorzifladen – a lovely tart made with a dough, pear filling and cream topping or Solothurnerli – gorgeous pastry rings with hazelnut meringue, sponge cake and buttercream frosting.

Other titles published this month include:

United Kingdom/Ireland

Thrifty Kitchen:: Over 120 Delicious, Money-saving Recipes and Home Hacks is Jack Monroe’s bumper collection of over 120 brand-new, delicious, low-cost recipes, plus household tricks guaranteed to save you money. Number-one bestselling author and campaigner, Jack is one of the UK’s best-loved experts on budget cooking. Through the gorgeous recipes and straightforward advice in Thrifty Kitchen, she proves that you don’t need to sacrifice flavour or settle for lacklustre meals when you’re spending less. Featuring everything from warming curries and a hearty pie to tasty sauces and indulgent puds, this must-have cookbook shows how easy it can be to turn basic ingredients into nourishing, mouth-watering meals that you and your wallet will love.

Eat More Vegan: 80 Delicious Recipes Everyone will Love by Annie Riggs shares fuss-free cooking that maximizes flavours and creates healthy meals that are packed with protein and proudly plant-based. Riggs tempting dishes take inspiration from all over the globe, and are perfect for anyone wanting great food, whether dining solo or catering for a crowd.

Soup by Blanca Valencia, Dee Laffan and Mei Chin: In Blasta Books #5: Soup, the authors and Spice Bags podcast co-hosts take you on a journey around the globe from the comfort of the communities within Ireland. The soups they have collected reflect individual cultures, memories and tastes, but they are also a reflection of Irish food today and the people behind it.

Baking it Vegan: Easy Recipes for Your Favourite Cakes and Bakes by Catherine Atkinson teaches essential vegan baking techniques with easy-to-follow instructions, and provides recommendations on substitute ingredients suitable for vegans, with great advice on using these alternative ingredients successfully. You will also find plenty of recipes with a healthy twist, such as lower fat, lower sugar, wholemeal and gluten-free bakes.

The Batch Lady Cooking on a Budget by Suzanne Mulholland: The Batch Lady is back with a budget-busting book to create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the purse strings. Shop once: Get organised, plan ahead and create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the bank. Cook once: Over 100 delicious, simple and energy-efficient batch-cooking recipes that will satisfy the whole family and fill your freezer. Save money all week: Learn to hack your monthly bill, save your hard-earned money and eat well on a budget.

One Wok, One Pot: Fuss-free and Delicious Dishes Using Only One Pot by Kwoklyn Wan offers 80 effortless recipes that are cooked in just one pot – a slow cooker, rice cooker, traditional clay pot or, of course, the humble wok. From Spicy wok-braised rice cakes to Pork belly and salt fish hot pot, Kwoklyn Wan shares a collection of much-loved, tasty and foolproof recipes to make at home. Just prep a few ingredients, use your favourite pot and reduce the washing up, with this brilliant book that every kitchen needs.

Vurger Co. At Home by The Vurger Co. features 80 recipes that celebrate easy, shareable and colourful plant-based comfort and fast-food, using ingredients that everyone can get hold of to make delicious food at home.
Including recipes such as Spicy Mac ‘n’ Cheese Balls, Pulled ‘Pork’ Sliders, Spicy ‘Lobster’ Puffs, Cauli Cheese, shales and smoothies, and of course tips on how to build the perfect burger, The Vurger Co at Home is packed with planet-friendly ‘fast-food’ inspiration for meals and treats to share with friends and family.

The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes by Luca Cesari: What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? The wheat-based dough first appeared in the Mediterranean in ancient times. Yet despite these remote beginnings, pasta wasn’t wedded to sauce until the nineteenth century. Once a special treat, it has been served everywhere from peasant homes to rustic taverns to royal tables, and its surprising past holds a mirror up to the changing fortunes of its makers. Full of mouthwatering recipes and outlandish anecdotes – from (literal) off-the-wall 1880s cooking techniques to spaghetti conveyer belts in 1940 and the international amatriciana scandal in 2021 – Luca Cesari embarks on a journey through time to detangle the heritage of this culinary classic.

Dr. Rupy Cooks by Dr. Rupy Aujla delivers over 100 fully photographed delicious and easy recipes that put flavour and nutrition first. Every dish is researched and developed to give maximum health benefit and ease while also delivering on amazing taste.

Other titles being published this month include:

Australia

Plantbased: 80 nourishing, umami-rich recipes from the kitchen of a passionate chef by Alexander Gershberg is an introduction to the versatility of plant-based cooking, enhanced by Japanese and Israeli techniques. His book makes extensive use of vegetables like parsnips, celeriac, kohlrabi, Jerusalem artichoke, and others that are often overlooked, with recipes that don’t require complicated methods or equipment. Plantbased’s recipes are easy to follow and focus on ingredients that build a healthy diet and a delicious dish.

Icebergs Dining Room and Bar 2002-2022 celebrates 20 years of Icebergs Dining Room and Bar: the food, cocktails, music, art, and personalities that have celebrated one of Sydney’s most iconic restaurants. Icebergs Dining Room and Bar is an icon, standing sentinel over Bondi Beach and the powerful Pacific Ocean. This book tells the story of the past 20 years of that custodianship. There are tales of people, personalities and the influences that shaped the idea, a collection of their best known recipes from two decades of head chefs, cocktails from their award-winning bar and playlists from summers gone by. See the restaurant through the eyes of acclaimed
architect Carl Pickering; peer into the minds of six of Australia’s best chefs – from Karen Martini to Monty Koludrovic; read about why a great wine list is about so much more than the wine, and then take a little taste of the indefinable magic – Maurice’s treatise on his signature rules of hospitality. There is so much that goes into making a restaurant disappear; much of it enclosed within these pages.

New Zealand

Cook Me. *Please.: 30 Dishes/3 Ways: 90 Lip-smacking Recipes by Sam Parish: Herein lies recipes so nice you’ ll want to cook it THRICE. Chef, food TV producer, podcaster, food stylist and writer Sam Parish takes one dish and spins it three ways: 1. slap it together (hack-style) 2. go-to (her ride-or-die) 3. long game (not so fast, not so casual). From SAMwiches to schnitties, cakes to crumbles, this is a cookbook stuffed to the absolute brim with flavour, while also scaled in the amount of effort required. It’ s a tasty choice sensation, ready to fit in with you. It’s called COOK ME for a reason, so get in the kitchen and go.

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