Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten is magic. Make It Ahead, her ninth cookbook, secures the Barefoot Contessa’s place—superglues it, staple guns it, whipstitches it, hot-glue-guns it—in the pantheon of Chefs We Worship. Here are six reasons we’re obsessed. 1. She’s the exact person we want to imagine we’re standing next to in the kitchen. Garten was just a regular old Washington, […]

For friends and family who love to cook (and those who like to eat and look at pretty food pictures), you really can’t go wrong giving the gift of a cookbook. Just make sure to match the cuisine with the recipient’s interests—give one of Yotam Ottolenghi‘s painterly tomes to a vegetarian, a gluten-free book from Silvana […]

We shared the 6 reasons we’re obsessed with Ina Garten’s new cookbook, Make It Ahead, and now we’re adding a seventh: It’s going to make your holidays a lot less stressful. Aunty Ina includes a few special occasion make-ahead menus in the back of the book, to which we’re adding our own. Bibbidi bobbidi butternut […]

Mother’s Day is May 10 this year, and there’s some good news: if your mom likes to cook, or even likes to pretend that she cooks, there’s a great new crop of cookbooks just about to drop. (And don’t forget about foodie dads—Father’s Day is June 21!) Here are six delicious collections of recipes guaranteed […]