A quick analysis of this spring's new cookbooks reveals a few trends. Vegetables—they're still cool! Middle Eastern cooking—still in demand! And grilling? Still hot. (See what I did there?) Also this spring, campfire cooking gets not one book buttwo, and there are new releases from both Tamar AdlerandNigella Lawson. So you may want to clear some space on your countertop—this is a season for cooking the books.
New Takes from Old Favorites
Something Old, Something Newby Tamar Adler
Tamar Adler is a former Chez Panisse cook, one of ourfavorite home cooks of all time, and the author of the classic cookbook,An Everlasting Meal,which is a practical yet elegant ode to an unlikely hero, the leftover. In her new book, she aims to revive a new kind of cooking: classic (read: old-school) recipes, which Adler revives, modernizes, and spruces up to make suitable for the 2018 kitchen.
BUY IT:Something Old, Something New: Classic Recipes Revised, $16.82 on Amazon, out April 3, 2018
The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updatedby David Lebovitz
David Lebovitz'sbest-selling ice cream book has been redesigned, re-photographed, and revised to include a dozen new recipes. In addition to homemade ice cream, gelato, and sorbet, the book includes a new section on frozen cocktails like Negroni slushies. It also includes sauces, toppings, and mix-ins to take your ice cream to the next level.
BUY IT:The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updated: 200 Recipes for Ice Creams, Sorbets, Gelatos, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments, $16.50 on Amazon, out March 27, 2018
Cookbooks About Amazing Places
The Austin Cookbookby Paula Forbes
Former Epi editor and cookbook criticPaula Forbesis out with her first book, and it's a love letter to the foods of Austin, where she now lives. Organized into sections of Austin essentials—like barbecue, Tex-Mex, tacos, and Texas classics—it pays tribute to the city through traditional recipes and new recipes that show off Austin's spot as a hot food scene.
BUY IT:The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Deep in the Heart of Texas, $29.99 on Amazon, out March 20, 2018
Coconuts and Collardsby Von Diaz
The first book from writer Von Diaz is part memoir, part cookbook, part photographic tribute to the landscape of Puerto Rico. Diaz moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Georgia as a small child. The book chronicles the food of her two homes: Puerto Rico and the mainland American South. The recipes aren't strictly Puerto Rican and they aren't strictly Southern—they're Diaz's own, based on her personal food history and her love of both cuisines.
BUY IT:Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South, $22.21 on Amazon, out February 26, 2018
Turnip Greens & Tortillasby Eddie Hernandez & Susan Puckett
艾迪·埃尔南德斯是fast-casua背后的力量l restaurantTaqueria del Soland a James Beard nominated chef. His first cookbook explores the common ground between Southern food and Mexican food. Get excited for Memphis barbecue tacos, chicken pot pie made with puffed tortilla, and Arnold Palmers spiked with tequila.
BUY IT:Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen, $31.50 on Amazon, out April 10, 2018
Tasting Paris, by Clotilde Dusoulier
The new cookbook from Parisian Clotilde Dusoulier will teach you how to make an elegant roast chicken with herbed butter and croutons, sure. But most of this book focuses on the contemporary recipes that actual Parisians are loving, eating—and cooking—right now. That include a ratatouille pita sandwich with chopped eggs and tahini sauce, and, yes, a spiralized zucchini salad.
BUY IT:Tasting Paris: 100 Recipes to Eat Like a Local, $19.49 on Amazon, out March 21
Stylish Cookbooks
Great Tastes: Cooking (and Eating) from Morning to Midnightby Danielle and Laura Kosann
Founders of the extra-trendy food and lifestyle websiteThe New Potato, Danielle and Laura Kosann, are here with their first cookbook. Using their signature lens that combines of fashion, celebrity, and beautiful design—and of course, food—they offer 85 original recipes, with funny anecdotes about celebrity culture and wild nights on the side.
BUY IT:Great Tastes: Cooking (and Eating) from Morning to Midnight, $19.74 on Amazon, out April 10, 2018
How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Placesby Diana Henry
Author Diana Henry loves planning menus; the title of this new book poetically refers to the lovely way that Italian summer meals end (that is, with glasses of chilled moscato filled with sliced peaches). In this book she combines personal essays with her love of menu planning and its ability to create a mood and a narrative for dishes. The book includes 24 menus, and 100 recipes that, of course, work on their own as well.
BUY IT:How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places, $34.99 on Amazon, out May 1, 2018
Home Cooking Made Simple
At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cookingby Nigella Lawson
We don't need to alert you to the amazingness of Nigella Lawson (but if you need a reminder,click here). What wedoneed to alert you to is her new book, which hits us right in our favorite spot: simple recipes for home cooks. Chili Mint Lamb Cutlets. Sticky Toffee Pudding. Emergency Brownies. Sold yet? Us too.
BUY IT:At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking, $22.48 on Amazon, out April 10, 2018
Dinner Illustratedby America's Test Kitchen
这new book fromAmerica's Test Kitchenteaches you how to make weeknight dinner—fast. Yes, lots of cookbooks have claimed to teach you just this very thing before, but America's Test Kitchen does it using a new way: Each recipe appears as an illustrated roadmap with step-by-step photos. You won't do any advanced prep, and side dishes are built into the recipes. So, in an hour or less, you'll have an entire composed dinner. The book also teaches technique and efficiency in prepping ingredients as you go.
BUY IT:Dinner Illustrated: 175 Meals Ready in 1 Hour or Less, by America's Test Kitchen, $26.72 on Amazon, out April 17, 2018
Repertoire: All the Recipes You Needby Jessica Battilana
Jessica Battilana is the author of the"Repertoire"column for theSan Francisco Chronicle.Her cookbook covers the same ground as that column: 75 recipes that are simple, trustworthy, and versatile enough that they work for both weeknight dinners and dinner parties.
BUY IT:Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need, $32.00 on Amazon, out April 3, 2018
Gather & Grazeby Stephanie Izard and Rachel Holtzman
Stephanie Izard is Top Chef's first female winner and the owner of three beloved restaurants in Chicago. In her new cookbook, she's here to share her favorite recipes for home cooking. Expect the unexpected. There will be Bahn Mi Burgers, a Sticky Sweet Potato Cake with Blueberry-Tomatillo Jam, and Duck with Brown Butter Kimchi.
BUY IT:Gather & Graze: 120 Favorite Recipes for Tasty Good Times, $35.00, out April 3, 2018.
Grilling and Outdoor Cooking
How to Grill Everythingby Mark Bittman
居st when you think Mark Bittman has finally, really, truly taught you how to cook absolutelyeverything(even Instant Pot recipes!),他出来更多的烹饪给建议。这time, it's all about grilling. In this new installation of theHow to Cook Everythingseries, he comes at you with 250 recipes—plus tips, variations, and tricks that cover all of the grilling basics. There's the standard fare like perfectly-grilled steaks, skewers, burgers, and fillets of salmon. But there are also surprises, like desserts and bread (yes, bread). If you plan to spend your summer cooking almost exclusively in the backyard, but need a place to start, Bittman is your boy.
BUY IT:How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food, $25.37, on sale May 14, 2018
Feast by Firelightby Emma Frisch
这is your guide to cooking around the campfire this summer. Emma Frisch is afood blogger, formerFood Network Starfinalist, and the co-owner (with her husband) ofFirelight Camps,一个“豪华露营旅游目的地”在伊萨卡岛,纽约。The book offers recipes, menus, and methods for cooking outdoors, as well as tips for packing and prepping in advance. It also offers shopping and equipment lists—but it's really worth the purchase just for the photographs of scenic views, starry skies, and blazing fires.
BUY IT:Feast by Firelight: Simple Recipes for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors, $18.16 on Amazon, out April 10, 2018
The Campout Cookbookby Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson
Another book about camp cooking, this one by the team who wroteThe Picnic, the award-winning book about eating daytime meals outside. They've got recipes for wood-fired skillet pizzas, vegetables roasted over the fire, energy bars, and breads made in cast iron skillets. Plus, there are camping tips, guides to stargazing, and a list of essential kitchen tools to bring along.
BUY IT:The Campout Cookbook: Inspired Recipes for Cooking Around the Fire and Under the Stars, $19.95 on Amazon, out May 15, 2018
Korean BBQ: Master Your Grill in Seven Saucesby Bill Kim and Chandra Ram
Here's a cookbook that will teach you the fundamentals of Korean BBQ, while also giving you some strong skills for classic American grilling. The author, Chicago chef Bill Kim, approaches Korean barbecue though the master sauces and spice rubs. He then uses those sauces and rubs in dishes with Korean-American twists, such as Kimchi Potato Salad and a Korean riff on Buffalo Shrimp.
BUY IT:Korean BBQ: Master Your Grill in Seven Sauces, $28 on Amazon, out April 17, 2018
Food52 Any Night Grillingby Paula Disbrowe
Food52's latest cookbook is all about fast and easy grilling. That means it skips the low-and-slow, all-day grilling and the overnight marinades. But don't worry—this isn't a book full of hot dogs. Instead, there are nachos with grilled corn, charred flatbreads, plenty of grilled vegetables, and valuable tips that will teach you to be a better (and faster!) grill master, any day of the week.
BUY IT:Food52 Any Night Grilling: 60 Ways to Fire Up Dinner, $16.50 on Amazon, out March 27, 2018
A Burger to Believe Inby Chris Kronner and Paolo Lucchesi
You may think there's nothing more to learn about making a hamburger, but this new book from Chris Kronner of Oakland's KronnerBurger will prove you wrong. Learn about sourcing the best meat, making your own bun, and why you're better off keeping your toppings simple! (By the way, there are 40 non-burger recipes in here as well, for items such as onion rings and salads.)
BUY IT:A Burger to Believe In: Recipes and Fundamentals, $29.99 on Amazon, out May 22, 2018
Michael Symon's Playing with Fireby Michael Symon and Douglas Trattner
If a deeper dive into the nerd world of barbecuing is more what you're after, try this book. AnIron Chefand a host ofThe Chewon ABC, Michael Symon is a Cleveland native, and he developed his own style of barbecue that showcases the flavors of his hometown. But wait! He also toured the US to experiment with different barbecue styles; the fruits of that labor are in this book in the form of regional recipes from Tennessee to Texas to Kansas City.
BUY IT:Michael Symon's Playing with Fire: BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace, $20.98 on Amazon, out April 3, 2018
Middle Eastern Cookbooks
Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israelby Alon Shaya
Alon Shaya is the chef of the award-winning New Orleans restaurants Shaya, Domenica, and Pizza Domenica. In this cookbook-memoir, he takes us from Israel, to Philadelphia, to Italy, back to Israel, and, finally, to New Orleans, where he reveals how he came to cook Israeli food with a creole New Orleans twist. In addition to these stories and beautiful photographs, there are more than 100 recipes, like whole-roasted cauliflower with whipped feta, roast chicken with harissa, and buttermilk biscuits.
BUY IT:Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel, $22.48 on Amazon, out March 13, 2018
Feast: Food of the Islamic Worldby Anissa Helou
Anissa Helou is an expert on the cooking of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. After living and traveling extensively in the region, she explores and gathers recipes that represent the diverse range of dishes that make up the cooking in the region. There are dishes you'll be familiar with, like kebabs and biryani. But there's also a world of dishes to discover.
BUY IT:Feast: Food of the Islamic World, $60.00 on Amazon, out May 29, 2018
Souk: Feasting at the Mezze Tableby Nadia Zerouali and Merijn Tol
Like many parts of the world, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine has a culture of enjoying big spreads of lightly portioned foods that, together, make up a full meal.Soukexplores this mezze culture, which can be found in Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Jordan—and in this book, where you'll get mezze recipes, stories, and personal histories from the region that has long known the pleasure of small plates.
BUY IT:Souk: Feasting at the Mezze Table, $30.94 on Amazon, out March 6, 2018
Vegetable-Forward Cooking & Healthy Eating
Saladishby Ilene Rosen with Donna Gelb
Ilene Rosen, once a slinger of salad (including one of the early kale salads) at theCity Bakeryin New York, was clearly in the PR meeting where we decided that every new cookbook and food vertical needed to have an "ish" at the end of the name. We're living in noncommittal times, but we're committed to this style of salad making, which goes beyond regular offerings (that's where theishcomes in) to emphasize new ingredients, unusual flavor combinations, and a variety of textures. The book also includes menus, ideas for entertaining, and useful and beautiful illustrated guides to meal assembly and flavor combinations.
BUY IT:Saladish: A Crunchier, Grainier, Herbier, Heartier, Tastier Way with Vegetables, $24.95 on Amazon, out March 20, 2018
Inspiralized and Beyondby Ali Malfucci
The world keeps turning, and it may have turned a little past spiralizing. But that doesn't mean that early-adopter Ali Malfucci (who also happens to be on our list of the100 Greatest Home Cooks) is getting left behind. In this new cookbook, she offers spiralizer recipes, yes, but she also goes beyond them and explores new ways to incorporate more vegetables into our diets.
BUY IT:Inspiralized and Beyond: Spiralize, Chop, Rice, and Mash Your Vegetables into Creative, Craveable Meals, $14.57 on Amazon, out May 1, 2018
The Berkley Bowl Cookbookby Laura McLively
Laura McLively has a popular blog calledMy Berkley Bowl, where she chronicles her attempts to cook the array of produce at the famous, family-run Berkeley Bowl Market inBerkely, California. Now the recipes she most loves (a soup with green garlic; stuffed squash blossoms; morel pot pie; starfruit almond torte) are collected here so you can explore produce that might be new or unfamiliar as well.
BUY IT:The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by the Extraordinary Produce of California's Most Iconic Market, $34.95 on Amazon, out April 17, 2018
Vegetarian Viet Namby Cameron Stauch
Author Cameron Stauch isn't taking Vietnamese flavors and applying them to vegetarian recipes in this new cookbook—rather, he's exploring a tradition of vegetarian cuisine that is already prevalent in Vietnamese cooking, and has been for centuries. Some of the recipes here were created by Buddhist monks; almost all of them are finished with light, flavorful Vietnamese herbs.
BUY IT:Vegetarian Viet Nam, $22.48 on Amazon, out March 13, 2018
Chloe Flavorby Chloe Coscarelli
Wildly popular vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli already has three bestselling cookbooks under her belt; this new book follows her others' footsteps with a dedication to creating flavorful, but very easy-to-make vegan dishes. There's an emphasis on health, but she knows what the world wants too, so there are plenty of highly craveable recipes for stuff like Mango-Guacamole Crunch Burgers and Sea Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
BUY IT:Chloe Flavor: Saucy, Crispy, Spicy, Vegan, $22.48 on Amazon, out March 6, 2018
Eat a Little Better, by Sam Kass
Sam Kass, the former senior advisor for nutrition policy in the Obama administration, has a book that's about eating better—for yourself and for the environment. Not content to just give us healthy recipes—though there are those too!—Kass lays out a plan for shopping, setting up your kitchen, and changing your habits and the way you think about about food, without depriving yourself or taking away any of the pleasure and beauty of eating and cooking.
BUY IT:Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World, $27.63 on Amazon, out April 17, 2018
Cooking with Kids
New Favorites for New Cooksby Carolyn Federman
Carolyn Federman is the founder of theCharlie Cart Project, a nonprofit that promotes food education in schools. She's also a former food educator and leader of Alice Waters'sEdible Schoolyard Project. Her new book is full of easy recipes kids can join in on or make by themselves, including a black bean taco bar, two-minute guacamole, meatballs, and plenty of baked goods. The book also features step-by-step tutorials that teach kids knife skills and other techniques.
BUY IT:New Favorites for New Cooks, $16.99 on Amazon, out March 20, 2018
Cooking and Science
The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishesby James Briscione
James Briscione is an instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education and lead chef onIBM's Chef Watson project, where he works with a supercomputer to turn data into recipes. Exploring this data unlocked a whole world of information aboutwhyflavors work together; in this book, he shares that information. Full of detailed infographics, this book also includes Briscione's original recipes.
The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes, $24.42 on Amazon, out March 6, 2018
Celebrity Cookbooks
Magnolia Tableby Joanna Gaines with Maura Stets
Your favoritehome decor guruhas a new cookbook full of her family's favorite recipes. The 125 recipes cover breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner; emphasize seasonal, homegrown produce; and often lean towards comfort food (hello, mac and cheese).
BUY IT:Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering, $17.99 on Amazon, out April 24, 2018
Giada's Italyby Giada De Laurentiis
雅达的新书是关于罗马和家庭t's full of photographs of the city, and stories of her family's time there. Expect fresh, bright flavors such as grilled wwordfish with candied lemon, spaghetti (spah-GEH-tee) with Chianti and fava beans, and fennel upside down cake.
BUY IT:Giada's Italy: My Recipes for La Dolce Vita, $24.48 on Amazon, out March 27, 208
Baking
The Perfect Cakeby America's Test Kitchen
You'll get recipes for all the classics in this book—the yellow cake, the chocolate cake. You'll also find recipes for pound cakes, holiday cakes, snack cakes, ice cream cakes, and sheet cakes. And finally: cool, Instagram-buzzy techniques, likeombre frosting patternsand other decorating stunners.
BUY IT:The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes, $31.50 on Amazon, out March 27, 2018
Pie Zero to Pie Heroby Ken Haedrich
So you've never mastered pie crust? Heading into the spring and summer, you're going to need to nail it so you do right by all of the season's rhubarb. And berries. And stone fruits! This is the ebook that's going to help you finally master a pie that's both beautiful and delicious. The bonus? You're going to achieve all of your pie dreams for literally 99 cents.
Pie Zero to Pie Hero: How to Ditch Your Fears, Master the Crust and Bake the Perfect Pie, $0.99 on Amazon, out now
More Multi-Cooker
Multicooker Perfection: Cook It Fast or Cook It Slow-You Decide, by America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen puts their signature steadfast, comprehensive testing to work on recipes for the multi-cooker that's taking over the Internet. Frustrated with the fact that users often had to use machine-specific recipes and that the recipes mostly only use the pressure cooking setting, they set about to do better by multicooker recipes.
BUY IT:Multicooker Perfection: Cook It Fast or Cook It Slow-You Decide, by America's Test Kitchen, $18.62 on Amazon, out April 17, 2018.
Cocktails
Session Cocktails: Low-Alcohol Drinks for Any Occasion
There's a refreshing trend these days of low-alcohol cocktails (read: cocktails you can drink all day and not wind up on the floor).Session Cocktails, by the editors ofPUNCH, explores the history of low alcohol drinks and gives tips on building your bar for this kind of smart cocktail-making. It includes all-new recipes for inventive low-proof cocktails, but also includes low alcohol versions of classic cocktails.
BUY IT:Session Cocktails: Low-Alcohol Drinks for Any Occasion, $18.99 on Amazon, out May 22, 2018
The One Bottle Cocktailby Maggie Hoffman
Maggie Hoffman of Serious Eatsgives you recipes for cocktails that are actually approachable and doable with a small home bar. No cocktail contains more than one spirit, and the ingredients are all easy to source. Still, you're getting a book full of inventive drinking ideas, like a combination of rye, chai tea, and balsamic vinegar, or gin, figs, thyme, and grapefruit soda. These inexpensive, easy recipes will make cocktail drinkers out of the non-believers.
BUY IT:The One-Bottle Cocktail: More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit, $14.71 on Amazon, out March 6, 2018
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