Despite cooks turning to the internet to download recipes, cookbooks sales have remained steady and strong. With a large market of cookbooks, readers are not just looking for digestible recipes for home cooks, but recipes with a story to tell. We sample the wide variety of some of the new and critically acclaimed cookbooks for our December selection of Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.
Guest:
Amy Traverso - Food editor at Yankee Magazine , co-host of WGBH's Weekends with Yankee and author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook.
Callie's Top 5 Cookbooks:
Jubilee
, by Toni Tipton-Martin
Nothing Fancy
, by Alison Roman
Rachael Ray 50
, by Rachael Ray
The Southern Vegetarian Cookbook
, by Justin Fox Burks and Amy Lawrence
Indian-ish
, by Priya Krishna
Callie's Honorable Mentions:
Sababa
, by Adeena Sussman
Ama
, by Josef Centeno and Betty Hallock
Pastry Love
, by Joanne Chang
Umami Bomb
, by Raquel Pelzel
Joy of Cooking
, by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker
Amy's Top 5 Cookbooks:
Midnight Chicken
, by Ella Risbridger
Where Cooking Begins
, by Carla Lalli Music
Sababa, by Adeena Sussman
Dappled
, by Nicole Rucker
Jubilee, by Toni Tipton-Martin
Amy's Honorable Mentions:
Curry and Kimchi
, by Unmi Abkin and Roger Taylor
Nothing Fancy, by Alison Roman
Pastry Love, by Joanne Chang
Vietnamese Food Any Day
, by Andrea Nguyen
WEB EXTRAS:
Listen to Callie and Amy discuss their honorable mention picks:
Try out some of our favorite recipes below: