Fall Reading List (Well, Cooking List): The Cookbooks We’re Scooping Up This Fall
Time to buy your books! We love how Fall brings a slew of new cookbooks to inspire us and make us VERY hungry. For knowledge! No, for food. Here are our picks for cookbooks you should scoop up (or pre-order) for optimum kitchen and tummy happiness this season.
Cooking for Jeffrey
Ina Garten
Oh, Jeffrey! He’s done it again. Ina’s muse (for over 48 years!) has inspired a whole book of favorites. Along with recipes, there are cute little anecdotes, like how Ina and Jeffrey met, and how they like to entertain together. Whether it be at the apartment in Paris or home in the Hamptons, Jeffrey and Ina have hosted more dinner parties than basically anyone, and we trust any dish Ina’s slingin’.
Oh She Glows Everyday
Angela Liddon
Angela Liddon’s uber popular blog Oh She Glows, has been a plant-based favorite of #FAT’s for a while, so we’re pretty amped about a second cookbook. Beautiful, everyday vegan and gluten free cooking ideas that are as delicious as they are easy, meaning you can flex your culinary muscles without um, widening your culinary bum. A good balance, if we do say ourselves, to Ina’s “add more duck fat” approach.
French Country Cooking
Mimi Thorrison
Ever dream of leaving behind your hectic city life to live in an idyllic French country town, eating, cooking, and living a simple beautiful life? Well that’s what Mimi Thorrison did with her photographer husband years ago, moving to Medoc, France, where they’re now raising a large family with lots of dogs. Lucky for us, she has been documenting the whole thing on her alluring blog, which would make anyone wish for their own small country town and big old family to share it with. Her second cookbook will warm your heart and your soul with approachable French foods that are centered around fresh, seasonal ingredients to be shared around a full table of friends and family. When can we move in, Mimi?
Vegetables
Martha Stewart
Vegetables: So hot right now. It feels like more and more people are going plant based or, at the very least, trying to keep to a more seasonally dictated diet where veggies outweigh carbs. But sometimes you need a little help to cook your way into veggie heaven so you don’t run into boredom and blah-dom. As usual, Martha’s here to help. The queen of the modern day kitchen is releasing a book with over 150 recipes to help you keep to your diet, but in a really delicious, easy to make, way.
The Spice Companion
Lior Lev Sercarz
Spice really does make the world go around, and Lior Lev has been bringing spice into the minds and onto the plates of chefs and foodies since 2006 with his store Boîte, which specializes in small batch, custom spice blends. He finally has a book out that breaks it down for us amateurs, inspiring us to cook with a little more adventure.
The Dude Diet
Serena Wolf
Serena Wolf is at the very top of our girl crush list. She’s hilarious, a fantastic cook, and on her blog Domesticate Me! turns a humorous eye to her own life and relationship. It’s out of this candid look into her “dude” Logan’s eating that the Dude Diet emerged – a slew of recipes that are hearty enough for dudes (and ladies, too!) but just enough healthier that you can eat them on the regs. Think nachos, quinoa bakes, and lots of funny anecdotes.
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