Cookbooks

Non-fiction books that contain a collection of recipes, techniques, and tricks of the trade or else focus on the exploration of food, cooking, and culture of food. Many cookbooks are divided into sections such as baking, dinner, and breakfast. A specialty cookbook may focus only on a certain country's cuisine, such as Italian or Cajun. There are some cookbooks that are written to highlight one ingredient (i.e. honey), and some cookbooks focused on only one branch of cooking (such as bread.) Even further, some cookbooks focus on types of cooking (microwave, barbecue, baking.) ...more

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All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Sweet & Salty!: King Arthur Baking Company's Cookbook for Young Bakers
FUSÃO: Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil
Food Person
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering
Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots (Includes Behind-the-Scenes Stories, Personal Photos, Delicious Recipes, and Lifestyle Tips)
Keep It Simple, Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor: A Cookbook
Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Feed These People: Slam-Dunk Recipes for Your Crew
What's for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People
  • Gathered by Gabrielle Cerberville
    Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life
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    Release date: Oct 30, 2025
    From “The Internet’s Mushroom Auntie,” a stunning memoir and illustrated field guide with recipes that shows us how to find ourselves through the edib ...more
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    Availability: 50 copies available, 4863 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Sep 22 - Oct 06, 2025

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  • For the Love of Chocolate by Phillip Ashley Rix
    For the Love of Chocolate: 80 At-Home Recipes from a Master Chocolatier's Imagination

    Release date: Sep 09, 2025
    Indulge your love of chocolate with recipes from a master chocolatier. From cocktails to breakfast to high-end bonbons, learn to elevate your skills.
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    Availability: 20 copies available, 8340 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Sep 25 - Oct 07, 2025

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  • Homemade Ramen by Sho Spaeth
    Homemade Ramen

    Release date: Oct 14, 2025
    The most comprehensive ramen cookbook in English.


    Like pizza or hamburgers, ramen is a bundle of traditions, conventions, cultural trends, proscription
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  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
    Joy of Cooking
    Mastering the Art of French Cooking
    Jerusalem: A Cookbook
    How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
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    The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook
    The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
    The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
    Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
    Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
    The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out
    Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
    Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
    Keto Diet for Beginners: 30-Day Keto Meal Plan for Rapid Weight Loss.
    Relish by Lucy KnisleyFrench Milk by Lucy KnisleyFood Wars! by Yūto TsukudaCook Korean! by Robin HaJapanese Cuisine by Tetsu Kariya
    Comics About Food
    85 books — 31 voters
    Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerHow to Cook Everything by Mark BittmanThe America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by America's Test KitchenBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and GardensBetty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty Crocker
    Awesome Cookbooks!
    597 books — 137 voters

    Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
    Being "Green"
    390 books — 237 voters
    Hello, Cupcake by Alan    RichardsonKaffeehaus by Rick RodgersBaking by Dorie GreenspanThe Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy BeranbaumThe Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
    Dessert Cookbooks
    416 books — 91 voters

    The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerThe New Basics Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion CunninghamThe Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie KatzenBarefoot Contessa Family Style by Ina Garten
    Best Cookbooks Ever
    547 books — 215 voters
    Pleyn Delit by Sharon ButlerThe Medieval Kitchen by Odile RedonCookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by ApiciusThe Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. WalkerMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
    Historical Cookery
    317 books — 79 voters


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    Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.
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