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2024 James Beard Nominees

Start Here
Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what a cookbook can be, teaching home cooks of all skill levels how cooking really works. With a foreword by Samin Nosrat.A practical, information-packed, and transformative guide...
Start Here : Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook

Sohla El-Waylly

Tenderheart
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Bookplated signed copies available! Heritage and food have always been linked for Hetty Lui McKinnon. Growing up as part of a Chinese family in Australia, McKinnon formed a deep appreciation for her bicultural identity, and for her father, who moved to Sydney as a teenager and learned English while selling...
Tenderheart : A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds

Hetty Lui McKinnon

Made in Taiwan : Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation
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Bookplate-signed copies now available! An in-depth exploration of the vibrant food and culture of Taiwan, including never-before-seen exclusive recipes and gorgeous photography.Taipei-based food journalist Clarissa Wei presents Made in Taiwan, a cookbook that celebrates the island nation’s unique culinary identity—despite a refusal by the Chinese government to recognize its sovereignty. The...
Made in Taiwan : Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation : Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation

Clarissa Wei

Pasta Every Day
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Bookplate-signed copies available. Pasta just might be the perfect comfort food. Endlessly reinventable, it is a canvas for delicious dreams. And it’s well within your reach to make at home, anytime. It can be super simple, like pici in butter: a revelation made from scratch with just four ingredients. Or it...
Pasta Every Day : Make It, Shape It, Sauce It, Eat It

Meryl Feinstein

More Than Cake
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Bookplate-signed copies available! Natasha Pickowicz is a creative force in the world of baking. Her pastries are uniquely delicious and surprising. She’s picked up three James Beard Award nominations for her time as a professional pastry chef. Her buzzy bake sales for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofits have raised hundreds...
More Than Cake : 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community

Natasha Pickowicz

Rintaro
RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco’s most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to the home kitchen. Crowd-pleasing foods like curry rice, tonkatsu, and yakitori, eaten most often at lunch counters and in home kitchens, live alongside sashimi, fresh bamboo shoots, and other dishes...
Rintaro : Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

Sylvan Mishima Brackett, Jessica Battilana

The Everlasting Meal Cookbook
The award-winning, bestselling author of An Everlasting Meal serves up an inspiring, money-saving, environmentally responsible, A-to-Z collection of simple recipes that utilize all kinds of leftovers—perfect for solo meals or for feeding the whole family.Food waste is a serious issue today—nearly forty percent of the food we buy gets tossed out. Most...
The Everlasting Meal Cookbook : Recipes for Leftovers A-Z

Tamar Adler, Caitlin Winner

Mayumu
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Bookplated-signed copies! A sweet baking book of fantastically imaginative remixed Filipino American dessert recipes, plus essays on the Filipino American experience by baker-fundraiser Abi Balingit. When the pandemic started her lonely work-from-home life in 2020, Abi Balingit channeled all her energy into the one thing that brought her joy: baking....
Mayumu : Filipino American Desserts Remixed

Abi Balingit

Ever-Green Vietnamese
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Bookplate signed Although many people think of Vietnamese cooking as beefy pho and meat-filled sandwiches, traditional Vietnamese cooking has always involved a lot of plants and seafood and a little meat. In Ever-Green Vietnamese, Andrea Nguyen details how cooks in her home country draw on their natural resourcefulness and Buddhist...
Ever-Green Vietnamese : Super-Fresh Recipes, Starring Plants from Land and Sea

Andrea Nguyen

The World Central Kitchen Cookbook
A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés’s beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK), which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword from Stephen Colbert.In their first cookbook, WCK shares recipes inspired by the many places they’ve cooked following disasters as well as...
The World Central Kitchen Cookbook : Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope

José Andrés, World Central Kitchen, with Sam Chapple-Sokol, foreword by Stephen Colbert

Dark Rye and Honey Cake
Known as an expert in British baking and culture, acclaimed food writer and historian Regula Ysewijn turns her attention to her native Belgium for an intimate look at the culinary traditions and classic baked goods—including classic Carnival and Renaissance treats, pastries, pies, biscuits, cakes, breads and, of course, waffles. Dark...
Dark Rye and Honey Cake : Festival Baking from Belgium, the Heart of the Low Countries

Regula Ysewijn

Japan - The Vegetarian Cookbook
From the author of global bestseller Japan: The Cookbook, more than 250 delicious, healthy vegetarian recipes for home cooks. In this collection of new recipes, Nancy Singleton Hachisu, the most authoritative voice in Japanese home cooking today, showcases Japanese vegetarian dishes, bringing the exquisite flavors of the nation’s elegant cuisine to...
Japan - The Vegetarian Cookbook

Nancy Singleton Hachisu

A Cook's Book
A collection of more than 150 delicious, easy, and gratifying plant-based and meat recipes, A Cook’s Book is the story of famed food writer Nigel Slater’s life in the kitchen. He charms readers with the tales behind the recipes, recalling the first time he ate a sublime baguette in Paris and the joy...
A Cook's Book

Nigel Slater

Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book
Discover the fascinating history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on American cocktail culture through 70 rediscovered, modernized, or celebrated recipes, by the James Beard Award–winning author of Jubilee.Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice spotlights the creativity, hospitality, and excellence of Black drinking culture, with classic and modern recipes inspired by...
Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book : Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp
Explore the "not traditional but personal" Sichuan flavors of Fly By Jing's cult favorite spicy and savory chili crisp through 85 hot recipes for everything from dumplings to cocktails to desserts.Born in Chengdu and raised everywhere, chef and entrepreneur Jing Gao has introduced America to the hot, tingly sensation of...
The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp : Spicy Recipes and Stories from Fly By Jing's Kitchen

Jing Gao

Love Japan
Steaming sukiyaki. Pillowy, soft shokupan. Springy ramen noodles. These famed Japanese dishes, as well as modern interpretations and evolutions, are all part of Love Japan, a collection of beloved family recipes from the married owners of Brooklyn’s Shalom Japan. Like many of us, chefs Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel lead busy lives...
Love Japan : Recipes from Our Japanese American Kitchen

Sawako Okochi, Aaron Israel, Gabriella Gershenson

Slow Drinks
Organized by season, Slow Drinks demonstrates how to make drinks that tell a story of botany, history, culture, and terroir, while honoring beverage traditions both old and new. Each season will highlight eight new ingredients with recipes that build on a basics chapter and teach readers how to interchangeably use master recipes to make...
Slow Drinks : A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More

Danny Childs

The Maison Premiere Almanac: Cocktails, Oysters, Absinthe, and Other Essential Nutrients for the Sensualist, Aesthete, and Flaneur
A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the popular and influential Brooklyn bar and restaurant.A major player in both the craft cocktail revival and the bar and restaurant renaissance, Maison Premiere offers an immersive experience that channels a time when cocktails...
The Maison Premiere Almanac: Cocktails, Oysters, Absinthe, and Other Essential Nutrients for the Sensualist, Aesthete, and Flaneur : A Cocktail Recipe Book

Joshua Boissy, Krystof Zizka, Jordan Mackay, William Elliott

Ed Mitchell's Barbeque
A celebration of the history and tradition of whole-hog barbeque from the “most famous” pitmaster in North Carolina. Ed Mitchell’s journey in the barbeque business began in 1991 with a lunch for his mama, who was grieving the loss of Ed’s father. Ed drove to the nearby Piggly Wiggly to...
Ed Mitchell's Barbeque

Ed Mitchell, Ryan Mitchell, Zella Palmer

Fish Butchery
James Beard award-winning author and culinary game-changer Josh Niland returns with the ultimate guide to the art of Fish Butchery, with expert techniques and groundbreaking recipes that are an urgent call for action on culinary sustainability.  Josh’s multi award-winning debut The Whole Fish Cookbook created a new blueprint for fish cookery, while its bestselling...
Fish Butchery : Mastering The Catch, Cut And Craft

Josh Niland

For The Culture
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Bookplate-signed copies available!  A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more. Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as...
For The Culture : Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes

Klancy Miller

My Everyday Lagos
An acclaimed food writer and cook celebrates the many cuisines found in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, with 75 recipes that mirror her own powerful journey of self-discovery.The city of Lagos, Nigeria, is a key part of a larger conversation about West African cuisine and its influences throughout the world. My Everyday...
My Everyday Lagos : Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora

Yewande Komolafe

Agave Spirits (paperback)
A manifesto…[and] a positive spin on the future of mezcal.” —Florence Fabricant, New York TimesThe agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers,...
Agave Spirits (paperback) : The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

Gary Paul Nabhan, David Suro Piñera

Yogurt & Whey
As founder of much-loved The White Moustache Yogurt company, Homa Dashtaki employs the same traditionally Iranian methods of making yogurt that her family has for generations in her kitchen today. Her passion culminates in inspiring the use of a new ingredient: whey, the liquid gold extracted from straining homemade yogurt....
Yogurt & Whey : Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life

Homa Dashtaki