What I’m Reading: Cookbooks Worth Collecting

This pretty pink book features entertaining history of today’s trendiest wine, explaining how rosé is created, with recommendations on the best of the best. 

This informative, and visually appealing guide offers savvy advice on wines to buy, creative food pairing suggestions and illustrations. It makes for an interesting addition to the bar cart, and a fun gift when paired with your favorite bottle! 

This cookbook gets its name from a pair of restaurants in Greenwich Village in NYC.  The place is known as the ultimate comfort food with its communal, casual vibe; it really feels like home when you’re in there.

The book features gorgeous illustrations alongside beloved, crowd-favorite recipes for accessible, delicious, and inventive Jewish comfort-food cooking at home.

I’ve always loved the tradition and culture around oysters.  The harvesting, shucking, and of course enjoying.  This beautiful book is truly for oyster lovers, with luscious recipes, shucking instructions, and the local farming success story of the many delicious oysters from the Pacific Coast.

Inside, you’ll find 30 recipes, along with ideas for what to drink with oysters, and tips for buying, storing, and shucking. 

In this book, there are more than 150 easy-to-prepare recipes that taste just as good as they are for you nutritionally.  The recipes all have a collection of fresh, high-quality ingredients without ever sacrificing flavor.  Not to mention, there are beautiful photographs all throughout! 

I really appreciate its focus on anti-inflammatory foods, especially now that I’m eating more intentionally and am more health conscious. 

I’m a sucker at any farmer’s market.  I want all of the fresh, vibrant fruits and veggies I can carry.  This cookbook is a nice nod to the experience and feeling I get when I go; it celebrates  knows the abundant glories of seasonal produce.  It has recipes and essential ingredient information about more than 100 fruits, vegetables, herbs and nuts.  Grab this one for your garden and food lover!

This collection of recipes from the first year of Bake from Scratch magazine features endless inspiration for home bakers, and it’s by one of my dear friends Brian Hart Hoffman.

Needless to say, the photography is stunning.  And for the content: this cookbook covers all types of pastries and breads like muffins, tarts, cakes, etc.  It offers tips and instructions to help you make artisan goods at home, consistently every single time.