Books

Calling all lovers of culinary books. These cookbook reviews and other food-focused reading recommendations will help stock your bookshelf and kitchen library.
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Linguini, Spaghetti, or Cavatelli: These Are the Best Cookbooks for Making Fresh Pasta
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Love Italian Food? 5 Essential Cookbooks for Your Collection
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These Are 19 of Our Favorite Cocktail Books
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34 Essential Cookbooks for Every Kitchen
The Nerds With Knives Wrote a Cookbook!
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What Cookbook Would You Buy For a First-Time Cook?
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Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Cooking Heroes and the Best Chinese Cookbooks
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Larousse Gastronomique is The Definitive Guide to French Cooking
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Modernist Cuisine Video: Popcorn Popping at 6,200 Frames Per Second
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Cookbook Love Letter: Tom Colicchio's Think Like a Chef
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The Long Good-bye: A Writer's Plea to Save the Foods We Love
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Rick Bayless on Lesser-Known Cookbooks and Mexican Cooking Inspiration
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A Slice of Heaven: A History of Pizza in America
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Sara Forte's Favorite Cookbooks
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Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's Favorite Cookbooks
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Land of Plenty Is Kenji's Go-To Sichuan Cookbook
Chef Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi's Favorite Cookbooks
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Sean Brock's Favorite Cookbooks
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Staff Picks: Our Favorite Fictional Foods
A Buyer's Guide to Vintage Cocktail Books
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 4: The Man Who Ate Everything
Cook's Illustrated's The Best New Recipe
The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 8: Cook's Illustrated's The New Best Recipe
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Tim Mazurek of Lottie + Doof Shares His Favorite Cookbooks
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Leah Koenig on the Best Jewish Cookbooks and What People Get Wrong About Jewish Cuisine
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Michael Ruhlman's Favorite Cookbooks
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Deborah Madison's Favorite Cookbooks
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So You Want to Write a Cocktail Book...
The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 17: Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 2: On Food and Cooking
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The Lee Bros.' Favorite Cookbooks
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The Best Wine Books for Beginners
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Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen's Favorite Cookbooks
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The Homesick Texan Lisa Fain's Favorite Cookbooks
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David Lebovitz's Favorite Cookbooks
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Washoku Is an Authoritative Guide to Japanese Cooking
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'Modernist Cuisine' by Nathan Myhrvold: The Ultimate Cookbook
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 19: The Apprentice
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Dorie Greenspan's Favorite Cookbooks
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 7: The Joyce Chen Cook Book
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The Book Has Arrived | The Food Lab
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Molly Wizenberg's Favorite Cookbooks
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Kathleen Weber's Favorite Cookbooks
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 3: The Making of a Chef
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April Bloomfield on the 3 Cookbooks Everyone Should Own
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 6: Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques
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Kenji's Favorite Straightforward Food Science Books
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Knead the Book: 'The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Bread Baking'
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 18: Mark Kurlansky's Cod
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Get Your Copy of The Food Lab Signed and Personalized!
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Rose Levy Beranbaum's Favorite Cookbooks
Inside the Pages of 'The Photography of Modernist Cuisine'
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The Food Lab's Required Reading
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Amanda Hesser's Favorite Cookbooks
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 5: How to Read a French Fry
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Amy Thielen's Favorite Cookbooks
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Tiki Revival Hits its Stride with New Recipe Book 'Beachbum Berry Remixed'
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 10: The River Cottage Cookbook
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The Food Lab's Reading List, Day 9: Down and Out in Paris and London