John Ruby’s Shrimp Mold
From the KFYR Radio 60th Anniversary Cook Book
#Cookbooks
Ten of My Favorite Cookbooks of 2025
Wondering which 2025 cookbooks were popular? Here's the list from 2 Australian cookbook stores.
Heh... So, one more cookbook I forgot to post about. This one was from 1935, and the cover is almost unreadable. The title page was also missing (but I found a pic on eBay). I'm pretty sure this was the go-to guide my grandparents used when they had their own restaurant! @stevewfolds @ai6yr
So, question for you, @stevewfolds (and @ai6yr ) -- what are your favorite #cookbooks?
My top 5
1. Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (already!)
2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
3. Fannie Farmer's
4. The Festive Foods of Ireland
5. Classical Indian Cooking
I collected printed #cookbooks for years. Especially those talking about #food, #culture, and #landscapes.
Last week-end, I got back to them thanks to #Google. I had searched #recipes for mandarins and was bombarded by ugliest #AISlop. 🤢 🤮 No chance to find human-made *quality*, even real bloggers use that crap.
I'm not surprised that I'm not the only one being disgusted: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/15/google-ai-recipes-food-bloggers
#foodBlog #foodBlogger #blogger #writersCommunity #slop #LLM
One of today’s finds: Today’s Woman Candy Cook Book, 1953
The 16 Best New Cookbooks of 2025 – Bon Appétit
Our Favorite New Cookbooks of 2025
According to editors, cookbook authors, and chefs.
By The Bon Appétit and Epicurious Staffs and Contributors
December 2, 2025
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This year was a banner year for cookbooks. These new titles? They helped us get dinner on the table in so many ways. Books for those willing to explore the wonders waiting in their pantry or those who want to wander around other countries for inspiration. Books that celebrate vegetarian cooking, baked goods, and “good things.” There were deep dives into diasporic Pakistani, Ghanaian, Middle Eastern, and Latinx cuisine. With so many excellent titles, how does one go about chronicling the best? By enlisting a group of tastemakers to evaluate and select their favorites. Of course, we barely scratched the surface of all the excellent titles published this year. Luckily, we’ve covered plenty over the past year: peruse our spring, summer, and fall callouts. To round up 2025’s best cookbooks, we consulted a large group: Bon Appétit and Epicurious staffers, as well as other food writers and editors, cookbook authors, and chefs.
While a great cookbook is, as one might assume, a collection of stellar recipes, it should also be enjoyable to read without immediate plans to cook. And wow, do these books deliver on that. Without truly reading these books, we might not have discovered that you don’t need to soften butter for a cohesive cookie dough (Nicole Rucker’s Fat + Flour taught us this); or that an author’s daughter is responsible for curating the playlists peppered throughout the recipe pages (that’s in Hetty Lui McKinnon’s Linger); or that fonio, a grain indigenous to West Africa, is likely the oldest cereal grain on the continent, but remained mostly unknown to Americans until just recently (shared by Eric Adjepong in Ghana to the World).
Read on for 16 books that delighted us in 2025, ordered alphabetically by title. Which will you add to your library?
I was drawn to chef Sami Tamimi’s first solo cookbook, Boustany, because of its subtitle: A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine. Hoping for inspiration for meat-free home cooking, I was not disappointed. The longtime Ottolenghi collaborator centers fresh produce on every page, with vibrant recipes that look exactly like what I want to eat right now (and always, if I’m honest). Colorful salads, robust dips, and a medley of grains and beans fill out chapters on breakfast, weeknight dinners, and special occasions, punctuated by pictures of Tamimi’s boustany—Arabic for “my garden.” I immediately made the Two-Lentil Mejadra, which features an onion salsa with gently roasted onion petals that I know I’ll be coming back to as a topping for other dishes. The bread section is going to see more of me (four words: Fenugreek & Onion Buns), and the fruity desserts, like Tahini Rice Pudding With Grape Compote, all have Post-it notes on their pages. But aside from the recipes, Boustany is also a beautiful ode to Tamimi’s home country, honoring the work Palestinians have done to preserve a culinary heritage rooted in farming and foraging in the face of overwhelming adversity. Showcasing this food culture is not a task he takes lightly; as Tamimi writes: “The responsibility of writing these recipes and stories has weighed heavily on my shoulders. I hope and wish that many of you try the recipes, read the stories, and want to know more about Palestine…this wonderful place I call home.” —Kendra Vaculin, former test kitchen editor
Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine
Pan-Fried Turmeric Bread (Kubez Kimaaj)
Kubez bread, a.k.a. kimaaj, is an Arabic flatbread or pita bread. It’s a staple in the Middle East used as an accompaniment for various dishes or as a wrap.
Crushed Lentils With Tahini & Soft-Boiled Eggs (Adas Medames)
Garlic and chile are what really make this das medames sing, while hearty cumin, fresh cilantro, tomato, and tahini pile on layers of flavors.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The 16 Best New Cookbooks of 2025 | Bon Appétit
#2025 #BonAppetit #Collections #Cookbooks #Cooking #December22025 #Epicurious #Favorites #Library #StellarRecipes
It's finally here! The 2025 Italian Cookbook, Book Guide from Red Sauce America.
https://www.redsauceamerica.com/blog/the-2025-italian-cookbook-book-guide/
The Best Cookbooks of 2025: Soju Party, Fat and Flour, Salsa Daddy, Italo Punk, and More
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-cookbooks-of-2025/
"In the pantheon of #cookbooks to have come out of the #Syrian #Jewish community (and there are many), one reigns supreme. It isn’t elegant or sleek and has no high-quality photographs to accompany its #recipes. In fact, it’s completely void of color, save for its cover, a banal red jacket stamped with an unassuming title: #DealDelights: #Cookbook presented by Sisterhood of Deal #Synagogue. A few geometric shapes resembling pots look as if they’ve been pulled from a bygone version of Microsoft Word and stand in for cover art. Its pages are fastened together by three large binder rings, and its chapters are organized like so:
#Appetizers and #Pickles
#Beverages and #Breads
#Soups, #Sauces, #Salads
#Fish & #Poultry
#Meat Dishes
The “#RedCookbook,” as it’s casually called, is not just a guide to #SyrianJewish #cooking. In fact, I almost always fall into hyperbole when explaining what this text means to us. It’s a #kitchen staple, much like salt or oil."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/cookbook-legend-deal-delights
I ordered a used copy #TheSiouxChef cookbook (by #SeanSherman with #BethDooley) a few weeks ago. It just arrived, and by *used*, it had one tiny smudge on the inside back cover. I can't wait to try out some of the recipes! (And yes, I'll transcribe a few of them -- including the one shown, which is a Wild Rice with Roasted Chestnuts, Wild Mushrooms and Dried Cranberries recipe!
#Cookbooks #Recipes #SiouxChef #NativeAmericanRecipes #DecolonizeYourDiet #SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalFoods #TribalFoodSovereignty #NativeAmericanFoodSovereignty #AnimalProducts #IndigenousFoodSystems
In this roundup of cookbooks, authors like Jacques Pépin and Samin Nosrat share how their personal creative processes in the kitchen can have a harmonizing, restorative effect. #books #cookbooks
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/1203/jacques-pepin-samin-nosrat-scott-clark-jessica-harris-cookbook
In this roundup of cookbooks, authors like Jacques Pépin and Samin Nosrat share how their personal creative processes in the kitchen can have a harmonizing, restorative effect. #cooking #books #cookbooks
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@ClimateJenny My household had 110 #Cookbooks until we downsized.
Here’s something old to try with your next season’s 57-ton zucchini harvest — Zucchini Marmalade.
found in Homemade Bread — By the Food Editors of Farm Journal, 1969 #cooking #recipes #vintage #cookbooks
If you don't know, "Oleo" in some old cookbooks means margarine.
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115617303543377023
@internetarchive A cookbook with as many handwritten as printed recipes that belonged to my great grandmother. #cookbooks
At Red Sauce America, I spoke to Katie Parla about her latest book, Rome, a collection of recipes and culinary history.
Remember the veggie shop come cafe in UK called "Sabzi"* that sued the publisher of a cookbook also called "Sabzi"?
Happily #SabziGate is over. The legal action has been withdrawn, common sense has prevailed, and we can all get back to sharing recipes and words without fear of litigation over sautéed vegetables.
The book looks terrific btw.
* Used in the Middle East and India for some types of dishes with vegetables and/or herbs dishes. The exact type of dish called "sabzi" differs depending on the region.
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