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The Cookbook Shelf
The cookbooks worth cooking from and keeping, the ones that live on the counter rather than the shelf. French and Vietnamese, Indian and Italian, the Parisian bakery and the New Orleans table. Read it in the Reading Room, live with it in The Big Books, cook from it here. The ones Annette actually opens.
Samin Nosrat Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share With People You Love
Samin Nosrat on the recipes and small rituals you share with the people you love.
$45
Alison Roman Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman cooks from the pantry, the dinner you make when you think there's nothing in the house.
$37.99
Edna Lewis The Taste of Country Cooking
The Virginia country year, the American seasonal book the rest are measured against.
$40
Judy Rodgers The Zuni Café Cookbook
The San Francisco classic, the roast chicken and bread salad everyone has copied.
$45
Sara Kramer & Sarah Hymanson Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes
The LA kitchen everyone wants to eat in, vegetables bright and eastern-Mediterranean.
$35
Tamar Adler An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Cooking with economy and grace, food writing you read like a novel.
$18
Rebekah Peppler Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Rebekah Peppler down the Provençal coast, the food and the apéro of the South of France.
$35
Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One
The book that taught America to cook French, and still the one you reach for.
$50
Moko Hirayama & Omar Koreitem Mokonuts: The Cookbook
The Paris café everyone who bakes loves, from Dorie Greenspan to David Lebovitz.
$49.95
Makenna Held Mostly French: Recipes from a Kitchen in Provence
Cooking at La Pitchoune, Julia Child's own house in Provence, the French kitchen made unfussy.
$40
Asma Khan Monsoon: Delicious Indian Recipes for Every Day and Season
Asma Khan cooks India by the season, the everyday and the festival table both.
$30
Marcella Hazan Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
The Italian canon, the one book that settles every argument about the real thing.
$40
Yotam Ottolenghi with Helen Goh Ottolenghi Comfort
Ottolenghi turns toward comfort, the food you actually want on a Tuesday.
$37.99
Roy F. Guste, Jr. The 100 Greatest Dishes of Louisiana Cookery
A New Orleans chef's Creole hundred, from haute Creole to red beans and rice. A hometown book.
$16.95
Yasmin Khan Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen
Palestinian home cooking gathered kitchen by kitchen, olive oil and za'atar at its center.
$30
Samin Nosrat Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
The four elements, the closest thing to learning to cook by feel from a page.
$37.50
Sohla El-Waylly Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
Sohla El-Waylly teaches you to cook by understanding it, six hundred pages of the why.
$45
Heidi Swanson Near & Far: Recipes Inspired by Home and Travel
Heidi Swanson cooks between home and the road, vegetables first, the light always good.
$35
Heidi Swanson Super Natural Every Day
The whole-grain pantry made a pleasure rather than a penance, for every day.
$24.99
Jeanine Donofrio The Love and Lemons Cookbook
Vegetable-first cooking from the beloved blog, bright and green, organized A to Z.
$35
Anaïs Ca Dao van Manen Vietnam: The Cookbook
Phaidon's flagship Vietnam, four hundred recipes across the whole country.
$54.95