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There are some incredible cookbooks out this Spring! It’s a beautiful mix of vegetables… lots of vegetables, and pizza, pasta and candy. There are some truly inspiring books out this year and I hope you pick a few to add to your kitchen library and spend some quality time in the kitchen-room.
• Philly has got some bomb ass food, including the best pizza in America. Pizza Camp by Joe Beddia is out and more than anything, it makes me want to book a plane ticket to Philadelphia and cross my fingers for one of the very few daily pies at Pizzeria Beddia.
• Friends! It’s very important to know that we can make candy at home. Candy Is Magic by Jami Curl is sweet, beautiful, and I have my eye on the Doughnut Magic Dust (an amped up cinnamon sugar that you can stir into butter and make dreams come true).
• Back Pocket Pasta by Colu Henry is just lovely. This Creamed Spinach Pasta with Sausage and Pine Nuts is inspired by Colu’s easy breezy book. It’s dinner, divine.
• I ate at Ava Gene’s in Portland a few weeks ago and, after ordering three pasta dishes and beans from the menu, Chef Joshua McFadden was kind enough to send out two of his salads from the menu. They were the best salads I’ve ever had. I literally said “WHY DOES THIS TASTE SO GOOD!?”. S0…. this Chef Joshua has a new book out and we all should: Six Seasons: a new way with vegetables.
• This book sits on my bar for cocktail inspiration. It highlights local bars and bartenders and it’s always worth a browses while I decide between a gin something or a bourbon something on a weekend night: New Orleans Cocktails by Sarah Baird
• In my dream life, a very handsome man makes me the fanciest salads and also cleans the litter box and rids the house of all spiders. The salad part I can handle on my own thanks to Food52 Mighty Salads by the Editors of Food52
• Tartine is my favorite bakery in the country… which is not a statement I make lightly. Tartine All Day by Elisabeth Prueitt has me very excited and Sorguhm Brownies are on my to-bake list.
• Good cooking is simple with Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat. I’m excited to explore the basics… the basics that took me years of trial and error to learn. Simplicity and knowledge and beautiful drawings. This book is approachable and inspiring and lays a strong, strong foundation.
• We’ve all got to dinner and Melissa Clark is a solid guide: Dinner: changing the game
• This is a beautiful book On Vegetables by Jeremy Fox. Very California. It will make you yearn for a Santa Monica Farmer’s Market… I’ll tell you that.
• We should all read this book this summer: My Soul Looks Back by award-winning writer and food historian Jessica B Harris on a vibrant life of love in the 1970’s.
• Salad For President by Julia Sherman because food is art, inspired.
Happy Cooking and Happy Spring! Let’s enjoy it all with your hearts and souls.
xo Joy
11 Responses
I am so excited about Candy is Magic!
I am so excited about Candy is Magic!!
Awesome post! Will check some of these out.
The cover of On Vegetables reminds me of the cover of the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen.
So glad you loved Ava Gene’s – a favorite of ours for birthdays and other special occasions!! Next time head down the street to American Local too for some bomb food. Yay for Portland!!
I can’t wait to try Melissa Clark’s new cookbook. Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Dorie’s Cookies’ has not left my countertop. This is the bible for all cookies!
I’m loving everything about the cover of On Vegetables. Oh my god, just saying Santa Monica’s Farmer Market makes me want to go back to Cali…
I love ava genes. my other half doesn’t like veggies much and yet? After eating there he said the best things he had were the salads and the carrots. McFadden is the master. Glad you enjoyed too! I will be checking out his book for sure
These intrigue me.
My eldest daughter has taught herself pancakes, cookies, and cobbler from your cookbooks. She wakes me at 6am with her creations and they are quite delicious. I think that is worth sharing with you. We cook together often, but these dishes, these she wants to learn alone, from you. It makes me smile.
I’m looking forward to buying your newest cookbook next week.
These all look like fabulous cookbooks…especially the Pizza Camp…my favorite thing to eat in the world! If I may, I’d like to suggest a wonderful and very meaningful cookbook called Soup for Syria. It is filled with 76 soup and stock recipes from acclaimed chefs and cookbook authors from around the world, who have donated a soup recipe for the food relief efforts for the Syrian refugees.
It is a beautiful book filled with..not only wonderful recipes but beautiful photographs…especially of the children and their families.
It’s a small way to help such a huge, humanitarian tragedy…
Thanks for all the great book suggestions! But you know, if you have a cat maybe he/she will attack the spiders? That’s what my cat does at least. He swats at them and then eats them so I have nothing to deal with!!!! But yes, haha, my husband has always had to clean the litter box. I love the cat, but, ya know.