2026 James Beard Nominee
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BOOKPLATE-SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE! Learn Korean cooking alongside social media star Sarah Ahn as her umma passes down 100+ family recipes and decades' worth of kitchen wisdom. Sarah Ahn’s viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational...
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:...
Joanne Molinaro, author of the New York Times Bestselling and James Beard Award Winning Korean Vegan Cookbook, returns with fresh new dishes with Korean twists Joanne Molinaro is everyone’s favorite storytelling vegan cook. On her platform, The Korean Vegan, she’s known for her personal narrative voiceovers, which accompany mouthwatering videos of her...
BOOKPLATE-SIGNED COPIES available! Learn to make elevated, professional-quality meals in your own kitchen with over 100 creative, seasonal recipes from Hailee CatalanoGrowing up cooking the Sunday gravy, meatballs, and pasta alongside her Italian American grandmother, Hailee Catalano developed a huge passion for food. This passion led her to the Culinary...
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...
Bookplate signed copies now available Like pizza or hamburgers, ramen is a bundle of traditions, conventions, cultural trends, proscriptions, and strong opinions. In his debut cookbook, Japanese American food writer Sho Spaeth offers insight into those traditions, elucidates core techniques, and demonstrates how to make a range of different ramen...
Bookplate-signed copies available! In her hotly anticipated debut solo cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi pastry chef and recipe developer Helen Goh draws on her rich multicultural heritage to deliver more than 100 of her favorite recipes.No one knows the “why” or “how” of baking better than Helen Goh, recipe developer with Yotam...
Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120+ recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.Poland’s distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to...
From the legendary New York destination for Jewish appetizing, a beautiful and inspiring cookbook that encompasses history, tradition, and absolutely delicious food. In 1907, a Jewish immigrant named Joel Russ landed in New York City, where he took a pushcart of herring and built a legacy that would pass down...
A transportive, highly personal cookbook of 100 West African-influenced recipes and stories from Top Chef finalist Eric Adjepong.“Sankofa” is a Ghanaian Twi word that roughly translates to the idea that we must look back in order to move forward. In his moving debut cookbook, chef Eric Adjepong practices sankofa by showcasing the...
Embark on a journey through cake making, the Mali Bakes way. This beautiful book is your ultimate guide to baking and decorating the cakes of your dreams! Start your adventures with simple cakes like apple and yuzu upside-down cake or Thai tea chiffon cake, before progressing to layer cakes in uniquely delicious...
James Beard Award-winning chef Nina Compton shares recipes that tell the story of her thrilling culinary journey from St. Lucia to Jamaica, Miami, and New Orleans, and celebrate the diverse African heritage that threads these cuisines together.Growing up in St. Lucia, a small island in the Eastern Caribbean, chef Nina...
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story.Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification,...
A celebration of the two food categories—pulses and rice—that form the foundation of a traditional, homestyle Indian vegetarian diet. Dal Chawal celebrates traditional Indian comfort food through dal and rice, which together form the foundation of a homestyle Indian vegetarian diet. Dal is a Hindi word commonly used to describe all...
Discover the centuries-old practices of Japanese pickling and fermenting, and learn to make delicious preserved vegetables at home.In The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting, preserving expert Yoko Nakazawa shares her lifelong passion of pickling and fermenting ingredients using age-old techniques that have been passed down the generations. Nakazawa grew up...
From a beloved San Francisco culinary landmark, a showstopper cookbook that honors a family legacy and celebrates ingredient-driven, multi-regional Chinese cooking in America.Since it opened in 1988, House of Nanking has been a popular spot for countless tourists, honeymooners, celebrities, and everyday San Franciscans who have lined up—for decades—for their...
In her debut cookbook, Top Chef All-Stars champion and award-winning chef Melissa King shares 120 of her favorite dishes, blending her California sensibility with the Chinese cuisine of her childhood.From the moment she could see over the kitchen counter, King would spend hours in the kitchen with her mom. For King, the...
As the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie Mitchell's cooking is motivated by a powerful desire to understand and celebrate those recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In Kin, her hotly anticipated debut cookbook, she shares dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora, exploring the connection food...
An inventive and inclusive drinks book with 165 cocktail recipes, each one of three variations for classic, riff, and zero-proof versions, from the World Class bartending champion behind Likeable Cocktails.A love letter to cocktails in all their forms, Three Cheers has a drink to suit every mood and occasion. This clever cocktail book...
The ultimate how-to guide to drinking, Korean style; recipes for cocktails, snacks, drinking games, hangover cures, and more from Youtube star and co-owner of Bushwick's Orion Bar, Irene Yoo.With Soju Party, YouTube star, recipe developer, and co-owner of Brooklyn’s Orion Bar, Irene Yoo has written the book on drinking like a...