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The Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016



From Harlem to China, from traditional to modern, this is our guide to the season’s best new cookbooks.



“He’s the Regis Philbin of food TV,” a writer says of Alton Brown.

Alton Brown: EveryDayCook Hardcover – September 27, 2016 by Alton Brown ( Ballentine Books)

Alton Brown’s eighth cookbook is the first in which he offers at least a small peek at the ways he cooks and eats at home. Peeks don’t come easy for Mr. Brown, who has always been more of a controlled showman than a freewheeling chef.




Diana Henry at her London home. CreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times

Simple Hardcover – September 6, 2016 by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley)

What distinguishes Diana Henry’s work isn’t just the quantity of recipes she produces, but their quality and originality, particularly in the creativity of her ingredient combinations. Seasoned with Kashmiri chiles, saffron, grape must and tamarind; garnished with pomegranate seeds, fresh mint, dill and parsley; and drizzled with prodigious amounts of sour yogurt, her flavor pairings are intelligently conceived without being pretentious.




Swiss chard slab pie from Kristin Donnelly.

Modern Home Cooking

Food52 A New Way to Dinner: A Playbook of Recipes and Strategies for the Week Ahead (Food52 Works)Oct 18, 2016 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs Hardcover ( Ten Speed Press)

A Modern Way to Cook: 150+ Vegetarian Recipes for Quick, Flavor-Packed Meals by Anna Jones ( Ten Speed Press)

Modern Potluck: Beautiful Food to Share by Kristin Donnelly ( Clarkson Potter)

Small Victories: Recipes, Advice & Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs” by Julia Turshen (Chronicle Books) 

Each of these books has its own clear, complete vision for what modern home cooking should look like: comforting, practical, often vegetable-focused and with a global point of view.






Shanghai stir-fried chunky noodles from Fuchsia Dunlop's new book.CreditLisa Nicklin for The New York Times

The Year of the Wok

Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes From the Culinary Heart of China by Fuchsia Dunlop ( W.W. Norton & Company) 
All Under Heaven: Recipes From the 35 Cuisines of China by Carolyn Phillips ( Ten Speed Press)

For her latest, Fuchsia Dunlop, a British cook and food writer who has been studying Chinese cooking since the mid-1990s, dives deep into the balanced flavors of Jiangnan, the region in eastern China that includes the nation’s largest city, Shanghai. The illustrator Carolyn Phillips takes a broader approach with her book, offering practical advice for cooks in the United States.



Shredded vegetable socca from "Everything I Want to Eat." CreditJim Wilson

The Intersection of Diner and Michelin

Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking by Jessica Koslow (Abrams)

The Venn diagram of Sqirl is the intersection of health food and diner food and Michelin-starred kitchens: sprouted grains, eggs for dinner, a few flashes of dazzling technique. The flavors are from all over the globe, and they feel true without being beholden to particular regions. If it sounds like too much, in the chef Jessica Koslow’s hands it all makes sense.




Baku fish kebabs from Naomi Duguid's latest cookbook.

A Sweet and Savory Trip Across Borders

Taste of Persia: A Cook’s Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Kurdistan by Naomi Duguid (Artisan)

The author Naomi Duguid’s latest cookbook is a search for Persian cuisine, which includes stops in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Kurdistan.




A rich, elegant gratin from Naomi Pomeroy.

The Best Kind of Bossy

Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking by Naomi Pomeroy with Jamie Feldmar ( Ten Speed Press)

In the spirit of Judy Rogers’s “Zuni Café Cookbook” or Paul Bertolli’s “Cooking by Hand,” the chef Naomi Pomeroy, of the restaurant Beast in Portland, Ore., doesn’t want to show off. She wants to hold your hand and take you there — “there” being a land where demi-glace and soufflés are actually cool, and where teaching is preferable to telling.



Weeknight fancy chicken and rice.

Indian Spices Meet the South’s Greatest Hits

My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen Hardcover – October 11, 2016 by Asha Gomez (Author),‎ Martha Hall Foose (Author),‎ Evan Sung (Photographer) (Running Press)

The Atlanta-based chef Asha Gomez’s lack of a classical cooking education is, in part, what makes this cookbook delightful. She intuits the needs and desires of the home cook; a chicken and rice dish is fancy in both name and flavor, but it dirties just one pot.




Sautéed endive from "Eat in My Kitchen."

Recipes for Large Groups and Small Ones

Mozza at Home: More than 150 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family-Style Entertaining Hardcover – October 25, 2016 by Nancy Silverton  and‎ Carolynn Carreno  (Knopf)

Eat in My Kitchen: To Cook, to Bake, to Eat, and to Treat Hardcover – October 11, 2016 by Meike Peters ( Prestel)

Both “Mozza at Home” from the Los Angeles chef Nancy Silverton with Carolynn Carreño and “Eat in My Kitchen” from Meike Peters offer skills for entertaining.





Hummingbird cake from the Poole's cookbook.

Can’t Get to the Counter? Get the Recipes

Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner Hardcover – September 20, 2016
by Ashley Christensen  and  Kaitlyn Goalen  (Teen Speed Press)

In this first book from the chef Ashley Christensen, the North Carolina native collects recipes from Poole’s Diner, her flagship restaurant, in Raleigh, that range broadly from down-home to sophisticated, and from easy to labor-intensive.





Short ribs like the ones that the chef Marcus Samuelsson served to the Obamas at Red Rooster Harlem in 2011.

A Nod to Harlem, Past and Future

The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem” by Marcus Samuelsson (
Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The chef Marcus Samuelsson’s latest cookbook maintains that Harlem contains cultural multitudes and bears out the notion with recipes like ham hocks with mustard greens, and arepas, all mixed in with exuberant portraits of neighborhood people.



Ina Garten CreditAlex Trautwig

The Best of the Rest
  • Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Green ( Clarkson Potter) 
  • Appetites A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever (Harper Collins) 
  • Deep Run Roots : Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard ( Hachette Book Group) 
  • Dorie's Cookies Hardcover – October 25, 2016 by Dorie Greenspan  (Author),‎ Davide Luciano (Photographer) (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt )
  • Breaking Breads: A New World of Israeli Baking--Flatbreads, Stuffed Breads, Challahs, Cookies, and the Legendary Chocolate Babka Hardcover – October 18, 2016 by Uri Scheft  (Author),‎ Raquel Pelzel (Contributor) (Workman)
  • Soframiz: Vibrant Middle Eastern Recipes from Sofra Bakery and Cafe Hardcover – October 11, 2016 by Ana Sortun  and ,‎ Maura Kilpatrick ( Ten Speed Press) 
  • Stir, Sizzle, Bake: Recipes for Your Cast-Iron Skillet Hardcover – September 27, 2016 by Charlotte Druckman  (Clarkson Potter)
  • Lucky Peach Presents Power Vegetables!: Turbocharged Recipes for Vegetables with Guts Oct 18, 2016 by Peter Meehan and the editors of Lucky Peach Hardcover (Clarkson Potter)
  • Dinner at the Long TableSep 27, 2016 by Andrew Tarlow and Anna Dunn Hardcover (Ten Speed Press) 
  • Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm Hardcover – October 4, 2016 by Molly Yeh (Rodale Press)
  • Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table Hardcover – June 5, 2012 by Jenny Rosenstrach (Ecco) 
  • How to Celebrate Everything: Recipes and Rituals for Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, and Every Day In Between Hardcover – September 20, 2016 by Jenny Rosenstrach 

Ina Garten’s latest cookbook, “Cooking for Jeffrey,” is an ode to her husband, with whom fans have long been on a first-name basis. “Appetites,”Anthony Bourdain’s first cookbook in more than a decade, collects everyday recipes from the chef turned TV personality. The North Carolina chef Vivian Howard, of the PBS show “A Chef’s Life,” has written her first book, “Deep Run Roots,” with her modern Southern cooking.

The baking doyenne Dorie Greenspan is back with “Dorie’s Cookies,” a book devoted to her beloved treats (Google “World Peace Cookies”). In the Israeli cookbook “Breaking Breads,” Uri Scheft, of Breads Bakery in Manhattan and Lehamim Bakery in Tel Aviv, offers sweet and savory recipes, as does “Soframiz,” by the chefs Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick, of the Middle Eastern bakery Sofra, in Cambridge, Mass. Genevieve Ko’s “Better Baking”explores how more healthful ingredients (whole grain flours, natural sweeteners) enliven desserts. And Charlotte Druckman goes deep on cast-iron baking with “Stir, Sizzle, Bake.”

“Power Vegetables!” by Peter Meehan and the editors of Lucky Peach magazine, is a vegetable cookbook like no other, in a good way. “Dinner at the Long Table,” from the restaurateur Andrew Tarlow and Anna Dunn, the editor of the magazine Diner Journal, gathers recipes from the chefs of Mr. Tarlow’s restaurants, which have defined the Brooklyn aesthetic for more than 15 years.

The blogger Molly Yeh’s first cookbook, “Molly on the Range,” collects recipes and notes from her life on a farm on the Minnesota-North Dakota border. And Jenny Rosenstrach, of “Dinner: A Love Story,” returns with “How to Celebrate Everything,” a book with an irresistible premise: that whenever possible, you should bring together loved ones for home-cooked food. Amen.

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