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10 New Cookbooks to Kick Off Grilling Season

These are the best new grilling and barbecue books for summer—just in time for Father's Day.

The 78 Best Cookbooks for Mastering Home Cooking

Building a cookbook library from scratch? Looking to round out your collection? These cookbooks are your ticket to the wide world of home cooking.

Alton Brown Returns to Cookbooks With EveryDayCook

Alton Brown's first cookbook since 2011 is his most personal cookbook ever.

The 25 Most Exciting New Fall Cookbooks, 2016

What you'll be reading (and cooking) this fall.

Is This the Best Chinese Cookbook Ever Written?

Scholar Carolyn Phillips has written the first English-language cookbook to encompass all 35 cuisines of China. Cookbook critic Paula Forbes dives in, head first.

Can a New Cookbook Make Potlucks Cool?

Can potlucks shake their stuffy church basement reputation?

'A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches' Is a Tasty Break From Tradition

A new cookbook that will make you laugh and feed you well.

Your New Big Fat Greek Cookbook

No Greek family of your own? Borrow Alexandra Stratou's to learn real, simple Greek dishes.

The 30 Most Exciting Cookbooks of Summer

Hope your summer house has a good kitchen—the lineup of cookbooks this summer is so good, it may just keep you from the beach.

It's All (Kind of) Easy in Gwyneth Paltrow's New Cookbook

What happens when an elite celebrity lifestyle guru tries to write a book of easy recipes for the people?

Around the World With 4 New April Cookbooks

Travel to Spain, Vietnam, Rome, or flavor country with some of our cookbook critic's favorite new releases.

Review: New Cookbook Will Teach You to Play With Fire

Portland chefs Greg Denton and Gabi Quiñónez Denton explore the flavors of Latin grilling in their first cookbook.

4 New Cookbooks You Need to Read This March

My spring book picks will get you out of your cooking rut (no matter how deep).

Cookbook Review: Cravings by Chrissy Teigen

Chrissy Teigen is a model, a TV host, an Instagram phenom. So how's her first cookbook?

4 Cookbooks You Need to Read Right Now

Indian food, Korean food, Texan food, and everything you need to know about bread.

30 Cookbooks We Can't Wait to Read This Spring

Cook your way around the world, learn a thing or two from a celebrity kitchen, and finally master the art of bread with this Spring's new crop of cookbooks.

Cookbook Review: Back to the 1950s With Betty Crocker

Read your grandmother's cookbook—you might just learn something.

2 New Cookbooks You Need to Read Now

One will take you to the night markets of Asia without leaving your kitchen, the other will put a little bit of Spring in your cooking.

Is This the Best Italian Cookbook Ever?

In a world full of Italian cookbooks, Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine strives to be the best.
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