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One of the many reasons why this cookbook is great is that it not only offers 350 delicious, easy recipes but also gets you acquainted with your Instant Pot. It has recipes for every meal of the day, from tropical oat porridge or easy in-the-shell eggs for breakfast to lamb curry or white rice pilaf for dinner, plus some great dessert options. After scouring through countless cookbooks, we have compiled a list of our favorite books for home cooks.

Most of them call for everyday pantry items I keep on hand all the time. Have already tried 5 recipes, and based my shopping this week on trying some more. For Mely Martínez, Mexican cooking has always been about family, community, and tradition. So nice to find simple recipes that are so flavorful and well thought out with bits of information to make the preparation simpler.
‘Cooking Simply and Well, for One or Many’ by Jeremy Lee, published by 4th Estate
Maybe it's Plenty's Mediterranean take on fresh produce. Maybe it's a much-needed burst of color in the pantheon of vegetarian cookbooks. Whatever it is, it was enough to propel Ottolenghi's next book, Jerusalem, into instant-hit status and to spawn a sequel to the first book, Plenty More. Whatever magic Ottolenghi's working, we hope he keeps it up. We picked Baking out of all of Greenspan's books largely because it's comprehensive. If we were only going to put one baking book in the canon, it couldn't just cover desserts.

The book includes 125 recipes and many vivid illustrations. Charcuterie contains content appealing to professionals while being intimately accessible to home chefs. You can learn to turn all the preserved foods into fresh and tasty dishes. The authors also provide a wide range of preparations, cooking techniques involving salting, smoking, and drying, as well as fermented side dishes.
I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef
Easy to hold and easy to clean, this fat separator will be great for anyone who makes a large amount of soups, sauces, and gravies. It has a built-in strainer to help catch small bits, non-slip handles, and conveniently doubles as a measuring cup — making it the ideal multi-functional gift. Have a friend or family member that can only cook when there's music involved? This personalized record cutting board is definitely for them. With its retro-style design, this is one gift that will keep everyone talking.

"Her book is an encyclopedic regional and visual feast and the definitive guide to all things pasta," says Nilou Motamed, television personality and judge on Netflix's Iron Chef. From lasagna to tagliatelle, this pasta cookbook achieves the perfect balance of step-by-step instruction, gorgeous imagery, and cheerful storytelling — all the while setting you up for maximum pasta-making success. "This book is really unique in that it focuses solely on hand-formed shapes and dumplings and includes a number of different dough recipes from all over Italy," says Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli, chefs at Don Angie. "We love the tactile experience of forming pasta piece by piece, completely by hand, and this book focuses on just that." Throughout the book, Meredith Leigh's expertise shines.
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All your favorite new gluten-free dinners and desserts will be found in this book. Christine is freelance food writer, certified cheese expert, and podcast host. Her work has appeared in AllRecipes, Bon Appetit, and VinePair. Gordon Ramsay may be dismissive of pastry but it’s much harder to get right than it looks and this is the finest guide to pastry ever written. She may not sound very Chinese but Fuschia Dunlop was trained in China in both Sichuan and Hunan cookery and here she shares everything that she learned. Every hungry vegan family needs this book to keep the table fresh and interesting.

Jacques Pepin is a longtime legend, having cohosted a TV show with Julia Child, and with decades of cooking and teaching under his belt. His recent "Quick & Simple" is practical and charming, like Pepin himself. There’s no fussing over fancy techniques or ingredients here—just simple ways for home cooks to get dinner on the table. He just wants to help you make dinner instead of springing for takeout again.
Chapters on blood oranges, potatoes, offal and chocolate are woven around essays that draw on Lee’s childhood in Scotland, as well as his lengthy career. Profiteroles, steamed puddings, hearty chops and savoury pies are among the soothing yet sophisticated recipes. The Arbroath smokies with sea purslane, green beans and potatoes recipe we tested was a success, even without the hard-to-find sea purslane. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?
You will learn how to use a diverse array of ingredients, from amaranth to za’atar. New techniques include low-temperature and sous vide cooking, fermentation, and cooking with both traditional and electric pressure cookers. Great book for any serious cooks looking to expand their knowledge of modernist cooking. Modernist cooking really is, the appliance of science, to what we do day in, day out. The forerunner to this, Modernist Cuisine, was aimed at professionals like me and took me months to read the 5 Volumes.
Even today her recipes are highly regarded, thanks in no small part to Marion Cunningham who has completely revised and rejuvenated the original work. She knows her food and celebrates the joy of the vegetable on the plate. This was voted the most useful cookbook in the world by Simon’s peers.

Whole wheat flour or pastry flour both have different textures and flavor to all-purpose flour, which means swapping one of these in will alter the final taste of recipes stating to use the latter. Same goes for using almond, buckwheat, or oat flours as a replacement for "gluten-free flour" mix. There are over 400 recipes, each tested by a team of pro bakers. You’ll find step-by-step technical drawings, color photographs, an ingredients glossary with recommended substitutions if you happen to be out of something, an illustrated section on tools, and more.