Best Cookbooks 2022

Tieghan Gerard has gifted us another Half Baked Harvest cookbook, this time offering us easy-to-make meals for every day eating. Not only is every recipe delicious, but Tieghan made sure that each dish is made with minimally processed ingredients. Whether you’re a professional chef or just starting out in the kitchen, this book is the perfect guide.

Add some color to your plate with these easy-to-make plant-based meals from Carleigh Bodrug. There are plant-y of recipes to choose from, with simple instructions that lead to a delicious dish every time!

A stunning exploration of Mexican cuisine from beloved food writer and star on the rise, Rick Martínez. Rick approaches Mexican food with reverence and authority and the dishes collected here truly reflect his deep love for Mexican flavors and cooking. Heartwarming stories mixed with delicious recipes wrapped up with vibrant photography.

Gullah Geechee cuisine is a prominent, yet too-often unsung, part of Southern food culture. Meggett’s cookbook is one of the first major and comprehensive books on the subject and will fill a void in the history of American cookbooks. Stunning photography around the food, people and landscapes of Edisto Island will leave you completely charmed by its culture and bold flavors.

This is an homage to what it means to be Korean American explores how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor both past and present. In this book of recipes and thoughtful insights, especially about his mother, Jean, Eric Kim divulges not only what it means to be Korean American but how, through food and cooking, he found acceptance, strength and the confidence to own his story.

Experience the delectable down-home Southern food from chef Mason Hereford’s awarding-winning New Orleans restaurant Turkey and the Wolf from your kitchen! Mason’s style is irreverent, fun, and joyful, filled with total delight for high-end ingredients as well as things like Duke’s mayonnaise and Ritz Crackers. Drawing on inspiration from his childhood to offer bold, fresh twists on some of the most beloved Southern dishes, you’ll find recipes such as Sweet Potato Burritos, Meatloaf: The Sandwich, Not the Musician, Corner-store Pork Rind Tacos and more!

Our love affair with Nadiya Hussain started after she won the sixth series of BBC’s The Great British Bake Off in 2015 and continues with this stunning cookbook all about pairing the perfect meal or dessert with the right occasion or mood. Mouth-watering photos and Nadiya’s signature warmth make this cookery book one you’ll turn to again and again for that perfect bake!

There’s a reason Noma sits atop the list of the world’s best restaurants. Every bite, every dish, every course surprises, delights, challenges and deeply satisfies in a way that’s unique in the world of dining. For foodies, for chefs, for artists and art lovers, for thought-leaders and makers, and for the kind of reader who is compelled by the idea that sometimes one person can change everything, Noma 2.0 is the gift book of the season.

This love letter to dessertis the perfect baking companion for new bakers and seasoned culinary masters alike. Fans will find all the warmth, encouragement and deliciously foolproof recipes with loads of troubleshooting advice that they’ve come to count on from Claire Saffitz, author of Dessert Person.

Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling. Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen is the first book from the Bronx-based culinary collective, and it does for the cookbook what Ghetto Gastro has been doing for the food world in general — disrupt, expand, reinvent and stamp it with their unique point of view.