January 2024 New Cookbook Review

January 29, 2024 by
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Welcome to January! We have a new year of great cookbooks to explore. Remember you can keep track of what is coming this year with our 2024 Cookbook Preview and don’t forget that you can create a wishlist and share it with your loved ones. Our January 2024 EYB Cookbook Club Summary and February 2024 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary can be found at the links provided.

Exciting news! Yotam Ottolenghi has a new book scheduled to be released this fall written with Helen Goh, Tara Wigley and Verena Lochmuller: Ottolenghi Comfort. It will be released in the UK in September and in the US and CA in October. Events have been added to our calendar UK/Ireland, North America and Europe.

And fans of Anna Jones will be thrilled to learn her new book Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating will be released in March in the UK and September in the US.

Last May we announced that we have connected the EYB database to ckbk’s library of digital cookbooks. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of more than 800 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed here on EYB (and more will be indexed every week). For all the details, please see Jane’s post. If any of this month’s books are a part of the ckbk library, we have identified them as such: ckbk.

If you would like to order any of these titles (or preorder/order any other books or items) using our affiliate links below or BUY BOOK button on the book details page, earns Eat Your Books revenue as an Amazon Associate from qualifying purchases when using our links:

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Please also remember your local bookstores – for preorders as well – authors state that preorders really help with their budgets for publicity, etc.

If there is an  available for a cookbook, look for the orange icon in the blurb. Clicking on that link will take you directly to the Preview.

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.

To jump to a particular country’s listing, please click on the links below.

United States

The Mocktail Club: Classic Recipes (and New Favorites) Without the Booze by Derick Santiago: If you are looking to experience the joy of cocktail mixology without the bar, crowd, or booze, this title has you covered! As more and more people embrace the alcohol-free lifestyle, the range of mocktail recipes continues to grow. From plays on classic cocktails to new flavor concoctions, the options are endless. The 75 creative mocktails in this book are all about fresh ingredients, classic flavors, and keeping the booze out, so you can bring the fun of a classic cocktail bar right to your couch.

Supper with Love: Vibrant, Delicious, and Comforting Plant-Forward and Pescatarian Recipes for Every Day by Michelle Braxton is the long awaited debut cookbook from the beloved Southern Instagrammer and food blogger. This title is filled with delectable comfort food recipes that are plant-forward and pescatarian, easy-to-prepare and flexible, made with wholesome and seasonal ingredients, and all shared in her signature warm and welcoming style. With over 85 recipes, Michelle shows just how simple, nourishing, and flavorful plant-forward meals can be.

15 Minute Meals: Truly Quick Recipes that Don’t Taste Like Shortcuts by Ali Rosen is full of delicious and quick recipes that you and your family will love! Instead of purported thirty minute meals that actually take an hour, every recipe in the book is written to truly take only 15 minutes, from start to finish. No prep is relegated to the ingredients (1 tablespoon of peeled and chopped garlic anyone?). Every single step is accounted for and ordered for efficiency.

Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically is a collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our lives. Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real people – real bellies, real bodies – including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.

Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time by Robert Downey Jr, and Thomas Kostigen: Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This engaging and persuasive book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today – in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world – to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already be on your shelf, and some are just on the horizon. But cool food is much more than just a shopping list: it’s a way of life vitally important to our future. Packed with eye-opening information, actionable items, and two dozen delicious recipes, Cool Food comes alive with engaging storytelling and refreshing humor.

Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun by Kat Ashmore: From the creator of Kat Can Cook comes simple, nourishing, mostly gluten-free recipes that are big on flavor and reimagine the concept of “healthy food.” Here she shares 110 recipes that are full of flavor, nourishment, and fun – and meant to be devoured in big bites! With her signature personality and joy, this cookbook is a celebration of nature and seasonality and encourages home cooks to rethink familiar ingredients. Events

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson is a lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky. Events

The Vegan Dairy Cookbook: Make Your Own Plant-Based Milks, Cheeses, and Kitchen Staples by Marleen Visser is a helpful guide which includes fifty homemade vegan dairy recipes from basic milks and spreads to more advanced cheeses and desserts.

The Heirloomed Kitchen: Made-from-Scratch Recipes to Gather Around for Generations by Ashley Schoenith is a carefully curated cookbook with nostalgic-style photography that beautifully presents the food while also showcasing heirloom cookware, serving vessels and utensils, and the gracious gentility of Southern hospitality. The recipes are slow-paced and packed with family memories taken from those splattered, handwritten recipe cards passed down from mother to child to grandchild. The 100 plus recipes, along with elegant photography, bring you to the table for family meals with breakfasts, appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, sides, desserts, special holiday gatherings, and, of course, classic drinks for the cocktail hour.

The Made-from-Scratch Life: Your Get-Started Homesteading Guide by Melissa K. Norris introduces readers to the basics of modern homesteading with expert advice on how to live a healthier, more self-sufficient life. The author shares easy-to-follow instructions (and plenty of inspiration) on how to – grow and preserve your own food, build a well-stocked pantry, cook hearty meals featuring homegrown ingredients, create safe and effective cleaning products, and raise animals for healthier and more sustainable sources of meat and dairy. Filled with helpful charts, checklists, and recipes, this guide gives you the know-how you need to incorporate time-tested homesteading practices into your everyday life.

Fireside Warmers: Drinks, Sweets, and Shareables to Enjoy Around the Fire by Emily Vikre lets you choose your own adventure when it comes to sips, sweets, and communal cooks. The author shares dozens of all-new recipes as well as a few greatest hits and remixes from Camp Cocktails and The Family Camp Cookbook, so you’re sure to find just what you want for your next trip

Come Hungry: Salads, Meals, and Sweets for People Who Live to Eat by Melissa Ben-Ishay is an irresistible, veggie-packed cookbook with over 100 flavorful, nourishing recipes to inspire you to eat delicious meals that make you feel great. Melissa Ben-Ishay is the co-founder of Baked by Melissa and creator of the viral Green Goddess Salad shares her favorite everyday recipes and tips for creating nourishing, delicious meals the whole family will love. With flavorful ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, Melissa encourages home cooks of all levels to cook outside of their comfort zones and reveals her go-to techniques for creating the perfect bite. Events

The Noom Kitchen: 100 Healthy, Delicious, Flexible Recipes for Every Day by Noom: Noom is a global phenomenon – their digital health and weight management program has helped millions lose weight and feel better by focusing on the psychology of food and behavior change. The Noom Kitchen is a follow-up to Noom’s bestselling book The Noom Mindset and offers spectacularly delicious recipes that make serving health-forward foods easy for cooks of all skill levels. The majority of the recipes focus on using “green foods”, nutritionally dense ingredients that fill you up without weighing you down.

The Kitchen Commune: Meals to Heal and Nourish Everyone at Your Table by Chay Wike offers more than 100 family-friendly, crowd-pleasing recipes – including gluten free, grain free, dairy free, paleo, vegan, and more – for everyone. Preparing a meal is an act of love for yourself and the ones you share it with. In this stunning cookbook, Chay Wike, author of the acclaimed home cooking and lifestyle blog The Kitchen Commune, offers a guide to reclaiming your health and nourishing your family and friends with easy, delicious, allergen-friendly recipes for all seasons.

Middle Eastern Delights: 60 Delicious, One-of-A-Kind Treats You Need to Try by Lamees Attar-Bashi: Tastemade icon and TV Host Lamees Attar-Bashi is letting us in on a ton of her foolproof recipes, including her mother’s traditional baklawa and Lamees’ own incomparable ground pistachio cheesecake. She gives kitchen-saving tips for handling particularly thin phyllo dough (hint: avocado spray will be your friend!) and offers a ton of recipes that can be made quickly and with a few simple ingredients already in the pantry. This is a gorgeous book!

Other titles of interest:

Canada

Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World’s Largest Syrian Refugee Camp by Karen E. Fisher: On the Jordanian-Syrian border lies Zaatari Camp, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world. In this immersive culinary tour, the author guides us through life at Zaatari, sharing its stories, its art, and its food. Authentically styled and stunningly photographed dishes accompany a vast array of recipes prepared by the camp’s residents for family dinners and community celebrations – and now for others to enjoy at home.

United Kingdom

Feed Your Family For a Fiver – in Under 30 Minutes! by Mitch Lane makes your budget work for your family, saving you precious money and time. Packed full of easy, speedy, comforting, crowd-pleasing recipes that anyone can make on a budget, no matter your experience.

The Vegan Airfryer: Quick & Easy, Healthy Meals – All Recipes Under 30 Minutes by Niki Webster is a quick-and-easy cookbook that makes healthy meal prep, and eating more veg, effortless with 70 recipes.

Coffee Art Masterclass: 50 Incredible Coffee Designs for the Home Barista by Dhan Tamang: Take your designer coffee to the next level with Dhan’s simple to follow and incredible designs. Impress your partner, friends and family by making them a cup with a design for every pastime and hobby. Recreate famous paintings, paint mythical creatures and sculpt stunning artworks all on the surface of your morning coffee. There’s no special equipment needed, and Dhan explains the basics, so that you can craft incredible designs from the outset. There are even templates for quick results and tips for ensuring your art stays in place for as long as possible.

Fermented Foods for Everyday Eating: Deliciously Easy Recipes to Boost Body & Mind by Ryland, Peters & Small: Increasing the amount of fermented foods in your diet is now widely considered to be the key to a healthier and happier gut and immune system. The link between our mental health and mood and what we put in our bodies has never been stronger and there is a firm belief now that basing your daily nutrition around gut-friendly foods will boost your overall health and leave you energized and alert. It couldn’t be easier to include fermented foods in your diet and this collection of recipes will give you a fail-safe plan to boost your nutrition and create a happy gut.

Vegan Snacks: Over 60 Recipes for Tasty Plant-based Bites by Ryland, Peters & Small shares more than 60 recipes for vegan snacks guaranteed to satisfy your cravings as well as give your body both instant fuel and long-term health-enhancing nutrition.

Eat to Your Heart’s Content by Sat Bains: The author worked out, always maintained a reasonable weight and considered himself fit and healthy, so it was a shock when, in March 2021, he had a massive heart attack and underwent an emergency triple heart bypass operation. During recovery, Sat consulted his friend, nutritionist Dr Neil Williams, who guided him on a revised diet to help maintain heart health. Having two Michelin Stars and a three-decade long obsession with flavour, Sat was not willing to sacrifice great food just because his diet now had to be heart healthy. This collection of recipes is made up of those he devised following surgery and focuses on lean protein, a mix of legumes, good fats – such as avocado, nuts and olive oil – and vegetables and fruits. These delicious, simple dishes are designed for every day, they use supermarket-friendly ingredients and are accompanied by nutritional advice highlighting the ingredients rich in heart-healthy vitamins and minerals.

The Silver Spoon Pasta: Authentic Italian Recipes by The Silver Spoon Kitchen is an updated version of The Silver Spoon Pasta (2009). The new version is reordered with 12 new recipes and 53 fewer recipes than the earlier edition.

Deliciously Ella Healthy Made Simple: Delicious, Plant-based Recipes, Ready in 30 Minutes or Less by Ella Mills (Woodward) shares over 75 brand new recipes devoted to making healthy eating easier. Ella shares vibrant, colourful, speedy, plant-based recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner that will take less than 30 minutes to make, contain 10 ingredients or fewer, have no more than 5 steps, be healthy and packed with goodness and always be delicious and flavourful.

Wok for Less: Budget-Friendly Asian Meals in 30 Minutes or Less by Ching-He Huang shares over 100 recipes for quick meals that won’t break the bank or stress the cook. The wok is an incredibly quick, heat-efficient cooking method – and a lot less expensive (and bulky) than an air fryer. Chinese and Asian cuisines have also always featured recipes that use cheaper ingredients. Find out more in our giveaway post sharing two recipes to try now.

Simply Chinese Feasts: Tasty Recipes for Friends and Family by Suzie Lee pulls the reader up a seat to the author’s table to explore the myriad Chinese celebrations, festivals and traditions, all of which centre around food and family. All the recipes have been designed for the home kitchen. Find out more in our giveaway post.

The Complete Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon (revised edition of The Complete Asian Cookbook). This impressive tome covers 800 classic and contemporary dishes from fifteen countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, The Philippines, China, Korea and Japan) all keeping the home cook in mind.

The Skint Cook: Over 80 Easy Tasty Recipes that Won’t Break the Bank by Ian Bursnall is bursting with super simple, budget-friendly recipes that pack a big punch. Whether you’re cooking for one or trying to feed a crowd, learn how to use up leftovers, knock out showstoppers and still have cash to spare. From store-cupboard dinners to inventive family feasts, Friday night fake-aways to Sunday roasts, this is stress-free, feel-good food you can’t get enough of.

Small Pleasures: Joyful Recipes for Difficult Times by Ryan Riley: Whether you’re recovering from an illness, or running low on mood, time, energy, money or headspace, Ryan Riley has the easy and delicious recipes to minimise the work and maximise the flavour and perk yourself up.

Cardiff Mum’s Thrifty Feasts: Affordable and Delicious One-pot, Air-fryer and Slow-cooker Recipes for Every Home by Ashleigh Mogford helps us discover how to cook joyful, flavour-packed food that won’t break the bank. With chapters covering £5 family meals, speedy air-fryer feasts, set-and-forget slow-cooker classics, one-pot wonders and Friday-night fakeaways, this book is packed with vibrant, simple meals that the whole family will love.

Plants Taste Better: Delicious plant-based recipes from root to fruit by Richard Buckley (Reissue of Plants Taste Better 2018).

Second Helpings: Transform Leftovers Into Delicious Dishes by Sue Quinn is packed with ingenious ways to use up bits and bobs in the fridge, half-empty packets in the larder, past-their-best fruit and veg as well leftovers from previous meals. Sue Quinn shows that when we truly celebrate leftovers, they can be a springboard for exciting dishes that taste just as good – if not better – than the meal from which they hailed. This inspirational cookbook includes 100 recipes and ideas that showcase the most commonly wasted foods, such as bread, milk, cheese, potatoes, bananas, apples, salad leaves, leftover takeaways and previous meals. Second Helpings is the go-to cookbook for cooking up a feast, saving money and supporting the planet.

Bored of Lunch Healthy Slow Cooker Even Easier by Nathan Anthony delivers recipes with hardly any prep, fewer ingredients and clever time-saving tips, making it a must-have for any busy home-cook. Every recipe is 500 calories or under, providing a hassle-free way to enjoy lighter versions of your family favourites. As a lower-energy alternative to a conventional oven, slow cookers are a cost-efficient way to save on your household bill. And with a focus on everyday, easy-to-find ingredients, this is food you can cook without breaking the bank.

Australia

Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia by Junda Khoo offers more than 100 staple dishes. This rich collection of recipes showcases a dynamic cuisine steeped in tradition, from street food classics to true homestyle cooking. Ho Jiak, translating to ‘good eats’, is Khoo’s modern interpretation of Malaysian cuisine. Owning one of the best restaurants in Australia, Ho Jiak Town Hall, Khoo draws inspiration from the recipes passed down to him from his beloved amah (grandmother) as well as the street vendors of Malaysia. Now, he brings these authentic and vibrant dishes to you.

Vegan Chinese Food by Yang Liu and Katharina Pinczolits: Founders of the hugely popular food blog Little Rice Noodle, Yang Liu and Kathi Pinczolits are known for their easy, delicious and plant-based Chinese recipes. Now, they are expanding their repertoire in Vegan Chinese Food with 60 well-loved and diverse Chinese recipes using traditional cooking methods and skills – and veganizing it. Use everything from mushrooms to soy protein to imitate the duck in Peking duck or the mince in Dan Dan noodles. There’s a favorite recipe here for everyone, 100 per cent plant-based.

The Healthy Slow Cooker: Easy, energy-saving recipes for every night of the week by Ross Dobson (Paperback release of The Healthy Slow Cooker)

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