Bookshelf

Some of you have messaged me in the past asking for cookbook recommendations, so here I’ve compiled a list of (most of) mine. They appear in alphabetical order, though the ones with asterisks (*) are the ones I use with most frequency. I’ve also made note of those that may be of interest to cooks with special dietary restrictions. Enjoy!

GENERAL COOKBOOKS

• Ad Hoc at Home, Thomas Keller *
• Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, Anthony Bourdain
• Dining with Sherlock Holmes, Julia C. Rosenblatt and Fredric H. Sonnenschmidt
• Eat Like a Man, Ryan D’Agostino, David Granger, and Tom Colicchio
• The Flavor Bible, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
• Home Made, Yvette van Boven
• My Last Supper, Melanie Dunea
• My Last Supper: The Next Course, Melanie Dunea
• New England Soup Factory Cookbook, Marjorie Druker and Clara Silverstein *
• Pretty Delicious, Candice Kumai
• Real Fast Food, Nigel Slater *
• Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, Dinah Bucholz

SPECIFIC BY CUISINE

• Asian, Linda Desser
• Cooking with Italian Grandmothers, Jessica Theroux
• Falling Cloudberries, Tessa Kiros
• The Foods & Wines of Spain, Penelope Casas
• From Mom with Love: Complete Guide to Indian Cooking & Entertaining, Pushpa Bharghava
• The Mafia Cookbook, Joseph Iannuzzi
• Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinent, Alford Duguid
• Moro East, Samuel Clark and Sam Clark
• My Grandmother’s Chinese Kitchen, Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, Claudia Roden *
• The New Indian Cooking Course, Manisha Kanami and Shehzad Husain *
• Thai Street Food, David Thompson
• Twelve: A Tuscan Cookbook, Tessa Kiros *
• Wok & Stir-Fry, Cook’s Library *

VEGETARIAN, SEASONAL, FARM-FOCUSED

• The Cheesemonger’s Kitchen, Chester Hastings and Joseph De Leo
• Fresh from the Market, Laurent Tourondel, Charlotte March, and Quentin Bacon
• Harvest to Heat: Cooking with America’s Best Chefs, Farmers, and Artisans, Darryl Estrine, Kelly Kochendorfer, and Alice Waters
• In Season: Cooking with Vegetables and Fruits, Sarah Raven *
• Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers Markets, Deborah Madison (100% vegetarian)
• Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-Conscious Life, Louisa Shafia
• Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights, Sophie Dahl *
• Plenty, Yotam Ottolenghi (100% vegetarian) *
• Ripe, Nigel Slater
• The Santa Monica Farmer’s Market Cookbook, Amelia Saltsman
• Super Natural Every Day, Heidi Swanson (100% vegetarian)
• Tender, Nigel Slater *
• The Urban Pantry, Amy Pennington and Della Chen
• Veganomicon, Isa Moskowitz and Terry Romero (100% vegan, very GF-friendly)
• Very Fond of Food, Sophie Dahl *

BRUNCH, BREAD, BAKING, CHOCOLATE

• Alice’s Tea Cup, Haley Fox and Lauren Fox *
• A Baker’s Tour, Nick Malagieri
• Baking, Dorie Greenspan
• The Bread Book, Sara Lewis
• Breakfast, Lunch, Tea, Rose Carrarini
• Chocolate, Cook’s Library
• Chocolate: A Love Story, Max Brenner *
• The Cookie and Biscuit Bible, Catherine Atkinson *
• Dessert University, Roland Mesnier
• Desserts to Die For, Marcel Desauliniers
• Discover Chocolate, Clay Gordon
• The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook, Elana Amsterdam (100% GF)
• Junior’s Cheesecake Cookbook, Alan Rosen, Beth Allen, and Mark Mark Ferri
• The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook
• Pillsbury Best Desserts
• Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, Rose Levy Beranbaum
• Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey, Jill O’Connor and Leigh Beisch *
• Tartine, Elisabeth Prueitt, Chad Robertson, France Ruffenach, and Alice Waters *

BOOKS ABOUT FOOD (WITH RECIPES DISPERSED)

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
• French Women Don’t Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
• French Women For All Seasons, Mireille Guiliano
• Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, James Salter and Kay Salter
• M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens, Joan Reardon
• My Life in France, Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme
• The Physiology of Taste, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

BOOKS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY WORLDVIEW

• Comfortably Unaware, Richard A. Oppelander
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• The World Peace Diet, Dr. Will Tuttle

WISH-LIST (BOOKS I WILL CERTAINLY OWN AT SOME POINT)

• The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts, Jennifer May
• The Blackberry Farm Cookbook: Four Seasons of Great Food and the Good Life, Sam Beall
• Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia, Naomi Duguid
• The Italian Farmer’s Table: Authentic Recipes and Local Lore from Northern Italy, Matthew Scialabba
• La Tartine Gourmand: Recipes for an Inspired Life, Béatrice Peltre
• Love, Laughter, and Lunch, Helen Tsanos Sheinman
• Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child
• Mediterranean Street Food, Anissa Helou
• My Vietnam: Stories and Recipes, Luke Nguyen
• Radically Simple, Rozanne Gold