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...
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....
Cooking from the heart : the Hmong kitchen in America
Scripter, Sami
Paper Book
The first cookbook of Hmong-American cuisine, filled with unique recipes and stories Simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicated not by exact measurements but by...
Seed to plate, soil to sky : modern plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients
Frank, Lois Ellen
Paper Book
Winner of Two IACP Awards Food Issues & Matters * Health & Nutrition This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and...
Everyday grand : soulful recipes for celebrating life's big and small moments
Adams, Jocelyn Delk
Paper Book
"Jocelyn's infectious joy and love for food and family leap from the pages to your table. Your family will be begging for seconds in no time."-JENNIFER GARNER A joyous cookbook full of gratitude, positivity, and 80+ Southern-inspired comfort food recipesfrom the culinary sweetheart...
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...
Vegetables illustrated : an inspiring guide with 700+ kitchen-tested recipes
Paper Book
THE ULTIMATE VEGETABLE COOKBOOK- Discover 700+ ways to cook nearly every vegetable under the sun with hundreds of step-by-step photos and watercolor illustrations! Plus, expert tips on techniques, shopping, storage, and seasonality make it easier than ever to eat more vegetables all...

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