Our Favorite Cookbooks

Expand your meal rotation, find new recipes for upcoming celebrations, and more with these librarian-recommended cookbooks!

Updated November 4, 2024
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How to cook everything : simple recipes for great food
Bittman, Mark
Paper Book
The ultimate kitchen companion, completely updated and better than ever, now for the first time featuring color photos   For twenty years, Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything has been the definitive guide to simple home cooking. This new edition has been...
Thanksgiving : how to cook it well
Sifton, Sam.
Ebook
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EATER.COM From one of America's finest food writers, the founder of The New York Times Cooking section, comes a definitive, timeless guide to Thanksgiving dinner--preparing it, surviving it, and pulling it off in style.
Simply delicious diabetes cookbook : 160+ nutritious recipes for foods you love
Paper Book
160+ delicious, easy and surprisingly healthy recipes for managing diabetes Managing diabetes doesn't have to feel overwhelming or even like you're depriving yourself. Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook offers 162 easy, delicious recipes to help...
Rose's ice cream bliss
Beranbaum, Rose Levy
Paper Book
Foolproof recipes for homemade ice cream from best-selling author and "diva of desserts" Rose Levy Beranbaum With Rose's easy-to-follow, meticulously tested, and innovative recipes, perfect ice creams and other frozen treats are simple to churn up anytime....
The Sioux chef's indigenous kitchen
Sherman, Sean
Paper Book
2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St....
New Native kitchen : celebrating modern recipes of the American Indian
Bitsoie, Freddie
Paper Book
From Freddie Bitsoie, the executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award-winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone...
In winter's kitchen : growing roots and breaking bread in the northern heartland
Dooley, Beth
Ebook
The award-winning cookbook author "personalizes the path from farm to fork with heart and skill" in a combination of "memoir, history and guidebook" (Wall Street Journal). The James Beard Award-winning author of such beloved cookbooks as Sweet Nature and The Sioux...

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