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Y’all! It’s that very exciting time of year when we get to add new cookbooks to our stacks. I don’t say this lightly. Lord knows I have stacks on stacks. If cookbook were Louboutins (why would they be, though) I’d have a closet like Lisa Vanderpump. Instead I have stacks on stacks of cookbooks on shelves and tables and buffets and desks. I’m working on a library and there are more still I’m adding to my collection.
There are some real loves in this collection of books and I hope that you too find some inspiration to add to your kitchen library.
• Dining In is the first book by Alison Roman who you may know from her lovely food at Bon Appetit and Buzz Feed Food. I love her food aesthetic and am really looking forward to some quality time in these pages.
• Our girl Deb Perelman is out with her second book, Smitten Kitchen Everyday, in just a few weeks! Deb is the most approachable, and her recipes are so well thought and tested. She’s just the best and I can’t wait to make all the cake in this book. (I hope there’s a good amount of cake.)
• If you’re an enthusiastic baker and there’s any one books you treat yourself to from this list please let it be Fearless Baker by Erin McDowell. Erin is one of the very best bakers we know – and we all know Erin because she’s helped style and develop recipes for numerous cookbook and makes some of the best recipes on Food52. Her cookbook is filled with stunning recipes and so much approachable knowledge that this book is suddenly an essential in my kitchen! (I’m baking from it next week and VERY excited)
• Yotam Ottolenghi is here to blow our minds with sophistication and simplicity and flavor with his new book Sweet. I mean… I’m still wrapping my head around Plenty, but the hits keep comin’.
• The best food magazine is now out with a cookbook and the community and collaboration could be better. See: Cherry Bombe by Kerry Diamond. There’s a coconut stew in this book that I’m making next week. From breakfast, straight through to dessert, this book is brought together by tons of amazing women in today’s food space and the diversity of food and ideas in one book is really incredible.
• I feel like we’re getting let in on a lot of secrets with this book and for that I feel very grateful. Zingerman’s Bakehouse by Amy Emberling I’ve already dubbed a classic that I’ll reach for every time I want to bake up comfort with adventure. This book is a beautiful and reliable guide. See: Zingerman’s Detroit Style Pizza. Did not disappoint.
• We should all have this book to inspire the the way we gather these days. Feeding the Resistance by Julia Turshen + several other bright minds and political activists inspire us to gather with a light towards nourishment and social awareness. Fight the good fight.
• Have you ever been to the Julia Child exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington? It’s a recreation of her kitchen and just proof positive that following your own compass is the only way to go. The same example comes from the great Alice Waters: Coming to my Senses.
• I Hear She’s A Real Bitch by Jen Agg. I feel like this might be what half of the people who know me say about me behind my back and listen… I’m not here to disagree. This book appeals to me because getting things done comes with colorful name-calling sometimes.
xxo Joy
jet
Yes adding these to the booklist starting with fearless baker and i hear she’s a real bitch (best.name.for.a.book.ever)
Thanks for the tips,
http://www.jettravels.co.uk
Jet
x
Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
Gahhh it’s so painful when all of these incredible cookbooks keep rolling out. Already got Cherry Bombe and Julia’s Feed The Resistance coming my way via Canada Post, baybee. Totes want everything on your list here though. Gotta grab Deb’s for sure. SK1 is so dang good and I just know 2 will be just as great. Painful since I’m trying out this new “minimalist purchasing and minimalist living” thing. Ie, purging my life … BUT THEN NEW COOKBOOKS BY AMAZING WOMEN come out!!! (Thinking out loud by Lyndsay. Sorry Joy! Great list!!) xo
joythebaker
You’re absolutely right – all your thinking out loud.
Veronica Hudson
I have actually bought one of this, and trying recipes from the books. I love it, and the one recipe with egg was just awesome defiantly b it. https://goo.gl/N8xB3P
Hannah
Yesterday morning after reading this post, I placed requests at my local public library for three of these! (Love that feature.) And Smitten Kitchen Every Day was already on my Amazon wish list. Seriously the thought of poring over these cookbooks this fall brightened my whole day.
Village Bakery
I just picked up Smitten Kitchen on the recommendation from a friend of mine. I browsed through it and it seems to be pretty good. Going to try a couple recipes this weekend!
Chris
I’d like to suggest just one more to make it an even 10. “Soup for Syria”. Many great chefs and cookbook authors from around the world have come together to help food relief efforts for Syrian refugees by each contributing a favorite recipe to the book. All profits from the sale of the book will be donated to them..the most vulnerable people of this humanitarian crisis…mostly women and children.
It also has beautiful photographs and would make a beautiful gift!
Soup for Syria~Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity…
Lori
Looking forward to Deb’s, and happy new to hear about Sweet. Sitting at Willa Jean’s right now, and you are a huge reason I finally made it to New Orleans. Thanks and cheers!
Julie
I have Alison Roman’s preordered, cannot wait!!! Just got Sweet, that is one incredible book, isn’t it??!!
I also just got Alex Guarnaschelli’s new one, it’s excellent; plus Cheers to the Publican, Lisa Fain’s Queso! (both fabulous), and I have Gail Simmons’ newest preordered. Yea for Cookbooktober!! Feeding the Resistance will definitely go in my next Amazon cart. Yeah, for sure. :)
Jackie S
Grabbing a copy of “I hear she’s a real bitch” — thanks for the recommendation :) the rest look great too but i’m a sucker for memoirs (esp. of fellow ladies in male-dominated fields, i’m an engineer)
Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul is a recent favorite of mine (one of the first female fire fighters in SF) – some of her words have stayed with me and come back to me when I was in scary situations and needed to calm down and work through it “how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time.”
Helen
Like a month late to the party, but lady engineer internet high fives to you! Gonna check out that fire fighter memoir too now :)
Lizzie
I just realized I still haven’t spent hardly any time with the cookbooks I got LAST year (Dorie’s Cookies and Food Lab, among others). And I now I have more to add to my stack! It’s a good problem to have, I guess.
Adrienne
Love these cookbook suggestions! I have a ridiculous amount of cookbooks (for someone who’s “not in the business”) and I keep telling myself I don’t need anymore, but then I find another one… (there is – and always will be – a special place for all of yours) Have been waiting impatiently for Deb’s new one. It was fun to hear her speak with you in NY.
Adrienne
Love these cookbook suggestions! I have a ridiculous amount of cookbooks (for someone who’s “not in the business”) and I keep telling myself I don’t need anymore, but then I find another one… (there is – and always will be – a special place for all of yours ??) Have been waiting impatiently for Deb’s new one. It was fun to hear her speak with you in NY.
Rossi @ A Baking Girl
I literally want all of these
Ellen
I’ve already got THREE. How to Feed the Resistance. Cherry Bombe arrived yesterday. BUT MY ONE TRUE LOVE – Sweet!
Oh I and ordered two of your books this summer Joy.oxox
Taste of France
I love Julia Turshen’s “Small Victories.” So glad she has another one out.
And Deb Perelman is great. I use so many of her recipes.