![]() I’m thinking of doing the Sweet Potato Praline Pie for Thanksgiving. The purple-dabbed, bacon-striped Fig and Pig Quiche could grace the cover of a magazine. The Strawberry-Basil Key Lime Pie is electric green. The cookbook is a mix of sweet and savory pies, tarts, and biscuits coupled with profiles of social activists like Tanya Lozano of Healthy Hood Chicago and Kleaver Cruz of the Black Joy Project. ![]() The author owns a Chicago bakery that has a charitable mission (hosting workshops, stocking community fridges, and a variety of fundraising efforts) in honor of her late father, a criminal defense attorney. I’ve been following Justice of the Pies on Instagram for years, patiently waiting for this cookbook so I can re-create some of Maya-Camille Broussard’s ridiculously beautiful pies at home. $38 $35 at Bookshop For the Pie-Hard Dessert Person So this is a cookbook for the person who’ll track down the good cheese, you know? It’s also a great gift for restaurant lovers and New York expats, and anyone willing to take on a 10-layer cacio e pepe lasagna. The reason dining at Via Carota is so special is because of the incredible care they take to source the best of every ingredient, down to every lettuce leaf in their fluffy salad, deemed “the best green salad in the world” by Samin Nosrat. You can re-create the plate of grilled maitake mushrooms and smoked scamorza cheese or the duck ragù with hand-rolled spaghetti or even the fried cardoons (if you can find them). The uncluttered cookbook is laid out by season and includes all of the dishes regulars have come to rely on. Jody Williams and Rita Sodi’s cozy, always packed Italian restaurant in New York’s West Village is famous for dishes that are simply impeccable their cacio e pepe will always be better than your homemade version, no matter how hard you try. $35 $33 at Bookshop For the Restaurant Regular Though flavors from Tandoh’s British and West African roots make appearances (see her Ghanaian groundnut soup), there’s an exciting variety of dishes from all over the globe, like rosemary buns based on the ones from Panadería Rosetta. The recipes are so spring-loaded with inspiration that each chapter has an included reading list, from Fresh India to The Hobbit. Gochujang and mushroom udon was a favorite, Eden Rice speckled with spinach is a new staple, and cheddar and kimchi cornbread muffins were the tomato soup pairing I didn’t know I needed. Tandoh is a skillful writer, and I can’t help but love her Britishisms like “fiddly work” (chopping things, which you don’t do too much of in this cookbook). There are truly easy recipes (see the chapter “Feed Me Now”), overflowing with substitutions. The premise is a little loose-follow these recipes to learn how to love cooking and to find the style of cooking that works for you. ![]() $30 $28 at Bookshop For the Cook Who’s Figuring Things Outīritish food writer Ruby Tandoh’s Cook As You Are was the cookbook I kept turning to when I was supposed to be trying recipes from others. I made the Sticky Coconut Rice Cake With Turmeric Tomatoes this summer and can’t wait to make it again the rice cake squares were such a satisfying crispy-gluey texture-a very good thing. There’s a range of unexpected everyday dinners (Pappardelle With Chipotle Pancetta Sauce) and impressive projects to show off at your next dinner party (Red Curry Sweet Potato Gratin). A recipe that combines Brazilian short ribs and Mexican mole caught hold of my taste buds, as did shrimp lasagna with habanero oil. They’re imaginative and playful, inspired by her mishmash (“mezcla” means “mix/mixture/blend/fusion” in Spanish, Belfrage writes) upbringing in Italy and extensive travels in Mexico and Brazil. Ixta Belfrage, who cowrote Yotam Ottolenghi’s Flavor, writes recipes that feel ahead of their time. ![]() Reading Mezcla, which is not a mezcal book, gave me a jolt of energy, probably helped by the neon design scheme. You’ll soon realize why you fell in love with cooking to begin with. I’m telling you: Pretend you have my job and pick up a book that’ll nudge you out of your usual culinary territory. Even the mail person was like, “What’s for dinner?” The books below range in difficulty and focus, from savory baking to vegetarian dishes from every region of Mexico. ![]() When I made two spice mixes and chicken curry from Rambutan, a Sri Lankan cookbook, my house filled with a savory cinnamon and clove perfume. Reviewing the best cookbooks of 2022 forced me to cook with purpose rather than reluctance, soak up inspiration from creative recipes (mushroom and cauliflower carnitas in Cooking with Mushrooms), and shake up my routine like a can of coconut milk. I wish everyone who loves to cook would have this assignment. Each year, our staff and contributors round up their best gift ideas for cooks, eaters, and the kitchen curious. ![]()
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