Cookbooks

Last Updated: February 7, 2025

Pass the Plate: 100 Delicious, Highly Shareable, Everyday Recipes by Carolina Gelen

Wildly popular blogger and viral food influencer Carolina Gelen presents 100 crowd-pleasing, never hard, effortlessly delicious recipes for flavorful meals that showcase her carefree style. With gorgeous photography and heartwarming stories about Carolina’s family, Pass the Plate will bring comfort to your kitchen and have friends and family asking for seconds.

Sweet Tooth: 100 Desserts to Save Room For by Sarah Fennel

Meet your new favorite go-to baking book for all things sweet and nostalgic by social media star and viral baker Sarah Fennel of Broma Bakery. Fans flock to her blog and feeds for easy and ultra-bakeable recipes like Sugar Cookie Bars, Cinnamon Bun Cake, and Hot Chocolate Cookies that spin nostalgic trends and favorites into totally updated and beyond delicious treats.

What Goes With What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities by Julia Turshen

Known for her simple, no-frills, yet utterly satisfying recipes-as well as her authentic, relatable, problem-solving approach-hers are the cookbooks we all turn to when we want to know what else we can make with some ground turkey, or if we can pull off dessert with a few basic pantry ingredients. In essence, we look to Julia when we want to know What Goes with What: to understand how we can transform the seemingly boring contents of our fridge into an exciting meal.

Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, Tara Wigley

Ottolenghi Comfort
by Yotam Ottolenghi

This is comfort food Ottolenghi style. With over 100 recipes, including classic new takes on pasta and potatoes, traybakes and soups, Comfort is full of dishes that feel both nostalgic and novel, familiar yet fresh. Comfort is Yotam Ottolenghi and his co-authors’ celebration of food and home, of the connections we make and pass on as we cook, from place to place and from generation to generation.

Keep it Zesty: a Celebration of Lebanese Flavors & Culture from Edy’s grocer by Edy Massih

Born in a small fishing village in Lebanon, Edy Massih grew up eating and cooking alongside his Teitas (grandmothers), Odette and Jacquo, who taught him the secrets to preparing delicious Lebanese food, including how to roll labneh balls and bind homemade kibbeh by hand. In the United States, Edy steadily built his career as a chef and caterer, specializing in these dishes and many others from his native land. When his adopted Teita Maria decided to retire ownership of her beloved neighborhood deli, Edy knew what he had to do. In only a few short months, the new sign, Edy’s Grocer, went up, and the Lemony Corner of Brooklyn was born.

New Camp Cookbook: On the Trail: Easy-to-Pack Meals, Cocktails, and Snacks for Your Next Adventure by Emily Vikre

In New Camp Cookbook On the Trail, author Emily Vikre shares dozens of all-new recipes as well as a few greatest hits and remixes from Camp Cocktails and The Family Camp Cookbook, so you’re sure to find just what you are craving for your next trip.

What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers

With three little boys less than two years apart and a packed schedule as an online creator, Caroline Chambers often doesn’t feel like cooking. Inspired by her wildly popular Substack newsletter of the same name, this book is brimming with efficient recipes that take the guesswork out of dinner–in fact, each one is a complete meal: protein, veg, starch, done! The recipes are organized by the amount of time they take to cook, so whether you have 15 minutes to throw together something or a little bit more time on your hands, dinnertime is totally doable.