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Finally, a complete bible that will transform the art of gluten-free bread baking from the three-time James Beard Award-finalist Aran Goyoaga. Author Aran Goyoaga has perfected the art of baking without gluten, and she’s garnered global attention for her ability to create bread full of texture and flavor using alternate...

The Art of Gluten-Free Bread : More than 100 Recipes for Sourdough, Croissants, Flatbread, and Beyond

Aran Goyoaga

In the follow-up to Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, James Beard Award–winning author Joshua McFadden teaches home cooks how to use store-bought dried pasta to create seasonal, restaurant-quality dishes at home. In Six Seasons, Joshua McFadden’s approach to seasonal produce revolutionized the way we cook with vegetables. Now, he’s...

Six Seasons of Pasta : Unique Seasonal Combinations and Must-Have Classics

Joshua McFadden

Something from Nothing is Alison Roman’s latest book featuring over 100 deceptively simple, casually stylish, impossibly delicious recipes that make the most of your pantry.In Something from Nothing, New York Times bestselling author Alison Roman gives you a collection of simple, smart, timeless recipes that rely on a home cook's best kept secret:...

Something from Nothing : A Cookbook

Alison Roman

Bookplate-signed copies! The London Plane restaurant and flower shop was a special place. For ten years (2013-2022), it anchored a corner in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, welcoming both locals and visitors from afar. This book remembers its heart and soul, celebrating the community of cooks, bakers, florists, servers, and beloved...

The London Plane Flower & Cook Book

Katherine Anderson and friends

Discover a world of flavors in this elegantly designed cookbook from Omid Roustaei—the Caspian Chef—featuring 75 mouthwatering recipes that blend Iranian dishes with global cuisines, accompanied by moving stories of Omid’s life and culinary journey from Iran to the US.Bitter & Sweet is an elegantly designed cookbook featuring 75 mouthwatering recipes...

Bitter & Sweet : Global Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen

Omid Roustaei

The James Beard award-winning author of Tenderheart returns to her roots with a year of seasonal salad recipes that emphasize community, family and the importance of finding time and space to linger.Hetty Lui McKinnon’s culinary career began with salads. Specifically, a charred broccoli salad. She began making salads at home and before...

Linger : Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor

Hetty Lui McKinnon

Bookplate signed copies now available! From beloved former-Book Larder Culinary Direction Polina Chesnakova! A lovingly-documented collection of recipes and stories from growing up and cooking in the Soviet diaspora, by one of the industry’s brightest stars. Chesnok: Recipes with Love from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Beyond is Polina Chesnakova’s third...

Chesnok : Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora : Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Polina Chesnakova

Bookplate signed copies available! Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 150 ancestral and modern recipes from three-time James Beard Award–winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman.Growing up on South Dakota’s Pine...

Turtle Island : Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

Sean Sherman, with Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly

Celebrate the diverse cuisine of Palestine with more than 100 plant-based and vegetarian recipes for festive meals, breads, desserts, and more, from the award-winning co-author of Jerusalem, Falastin and co-founder of Ottolenghi.The first solo cookbook from Ottolenghi co-founder Sami Tamimi, Boustany is a homage to Palestinian food and culture. "Boustany" translates from Arabic as...

Boustany : A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine

Sami Tamimi

The James Beard Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller Mi Cocina is back with a guide to the brightest dish in any Mexican meal, snack-filled afternoon, or sun-drenched beach day: salsa. From refreshing classics to rich sauces, this collection of over seventy salsas and twenty-four easy meals is a fun-loving introduction...

Salsa Daddy: Dip Your Way into Mexican Cooking

Rick Martínez

Bookplate copies now available! A fuss-free, downright delicious collection of recipes for pies, cookies, brownies, cakes, and more—from “pastry queen” (Bon Appétit) Nicole Rucker, chef/owner of Los Angeles’s Fat + Flour.Fat + Flour is a celebration of the delights that abound when these two simple ingredients come together. Famed for her...

Fat + Flour : The Art of a Simple Bake

Nicole Rucker

SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE! Discover the sweeping story of how Indigenous, European, and African traditions intertwined to form an entirely new cuisine, with over 100 recipes for the modern home cook—from the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer and star of the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog.One of our preeminent culinary...

Braided Heritage : Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine

Jessica B. Harris

In Lugma, Noor offers over 100 recipes as an ode to the food she grew up eating—traditional flavors and modern dishes from Bahrain, the surrounding Middle East, and beyond.Lugma in Arabic means a bite. For Noor, as a chef and co-author of two Ottolenghi Test Kitchen cookbooks, her career has been centered around taking...

Lugma : Abundant Dishes And Stories From My Middle East

Noor Murad

A gorgeous photographic chronicle of the food and traditions of Korea’s Baekyangsa Temple. Korean Temple Cooking celebrates the poetry of simple, nourishing food. The book chronicles temple life, Buddhism, and living and cooking seasonally and with a spiritual tie to the land through interviews with and recipes from Jeongkwan Snim, dubbed “the Philosopher...

Korean Temple Cooking : Lessons on Life and Buddhism, with Recipes

Hoo Nam Seelmann

Delight your friends and family (and yourself) with 100 delicious cookies from NYT Cooking.Dessert is sometimes seen as a bonus, but what could be more essential than delightful treats? From NYT Cooking and curated by recipe creator, video journalist, and YouTube personality Vaughn Vreeland, Cookies is the ultimate collection of treats–from classic...

Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat from NYT Cooking : The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat

Vaughn Vreeland, New York Times Cooking

Third Culture Cooking is American Cooking: Multicultural, borrowing from our parents and their parents’ homes, melding the old with the new, and the familiar with the unfamiliar to create bold flavors and new classics for the next generation of cooks. The food that author Zaynab Issa cooks—inspired by her East African...

Third Culture Cooking : Classic Recipes for a New Generation

Zaynab Issa

Signed copies will be available beginning May 19th, 2026! Please check the box above if you'd like to wait for a signed copy. Join our author talk with Cha on May 19th or our wine pairing workshop on May 20th! A first-of-its-kind guide to pairing wine with foods from Africa and...

Wine Pairing for the People : The Communion of Wine, Food, and Culture from Africa and Beyond

Cha McCoy

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