AAPI & diaspora authors

Heartland Masala pairs 99 recipes from Indian cooking instructor Jyoti Mukharji with cultural and historical essays by her son Auyon Mukharji. A heartfelt celebration of Indian cuisine and the American immigrant experience, this beautiful cookbook is playful, informative, and utterly original.Take a delicious deep dive into Indian cooking and culture with...

Heartland Masala : An Indian Cookbook from an American Kitchen

Jyoti Mukharji, Auyon Mukharji, Olivier Kugler (Illustrated by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

KIM CHI is a sickening drag queen, fierce business mogul, and lifelong culinary connoisseur. Drawing inspiration from the many countries she has traveled to on tour, in her debut cookbook, the superstar brings you along on a trip around the world. Starting off in North America, you’ll find good ol’...

Kim Chi Eats the World : 75 Recipes Fit for a (Drag) Queen - A Cookbook

Kim Chi

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 21, 2025.

Honouring the tradition of serving miyeokguk on birthdays and inspired by the lives of Korea’s haenyeo, this lovely picture book celebrates the bond between mothers and daughters. On her birthday, a girl is presented with a bowl of miyeokguk, seaweed soup—instead of the cake she wants. As she stirs her...

A Spoonful of the Sea

Hyewon Yum

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

A highly illustrated tome with 100 recipes for the most iconic Chinese dishes, with step-by-step photography, ingredient breakdowns, and practical tips. Chinese is one of the world’s most beloved cuisines, but cooking Chinese food at home can still feel daunting to many. The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Cooking breaks down 100...

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Cooking : Techniques, Ingredients, and Recipes

Orathay Souksisavanh

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

A gluten-free spotlight on Asian flavors, with plenty of plant-based, dairy-free, vegetarian, and pescatarian options!Anyone who eats (or cooks) a gluten-free diet understands the struggles of avoiding gluten. In East Asian and Southeast Asian foods especially, gluten is hard to avoid: it’s embedded in integral staples like soy sauce and...

My Best Friend Is Gluten-Free : 100+ Asian-Inspired Recipes for Bringing People Together

Jannell Lo

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 21, 2025.

A James Beard Award winner celebrates the women heroes who are fighting against the Big Food system—and asks the question: How should we eat?When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through global food supply chains, it threatened the livelihoods of farmers, created shortages in supermarkets, and revealed a startling truth to consumers: the food...

Reaping What She Sows : How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System

Nancy Matsumoto

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 28, 2025.

Add some razzle dazzle to your home cooking with 80 recipes for your favorite Asian takeout dishes from culinary influencer Cassie YeungCassie Yeung likes to think of herself as a chef for the people—no professional culinary training here, just a girl who really loves to cook (and eat, obvi). She believes...

Bad B*tch in the Kitch : Craveable Asian Recipes to Ditch the Takeout

Cassie Yeung

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 7, 2025.

Noodle Box delivers fifty recipes in one classic takeout container.Whether you’re craving Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, or another Asian cuisine entirely, the chefs behind the recipes in Noodle Box have you covered. Filled to the brim with classics, from ramen to pad see ew and japchae to gong zai men, this deck...

Noodle Box : Order in with 45 delicious recipes from Asia

Jerry Mai, ArChan Chan, Billy Law, Deborah Kaloper, Aim Aris, Ahmad Salim

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 15, 2025.

Indispensable Japanese pantry dishes from Emiko Davies, author of Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking.The Japanese Pantry is a follow-up to Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking Memories and Stories From My Family’s Kitchen, Davies’s tribute to her mother’s family and her soul food—Japanese home cooking.In The Japanese Pantry, Davies explores the pantry items essential to Japanese home cooking—simple,...

The Japanese Pantry : From Sake to Soy, Essential Ingredients for Japanese Home Cooking

Emiko Davies

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 28, 2025.

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...

The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting : Preserving vegetables and family traditions

Yoko Nakazawa

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 30, 2025.

Do you want to know how you can make perfect ramen? Yakisoba and donburi that’s both easy and impressive? Katsu sandos for work from home lunches?Japanese Comfort Food has all the classics – and more – for you to enjoy in your kitchen at home.Japanese cuisine remains ever popular, but...

Japanese Comfort Food : 60 Delicious Recipes for Home Cooking

Saori Ichihara

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 7, 2025.

Joanne Molinaro, author of the New York Times Bestselling and James Beard Award Winning  Korean Vegan Cookbook, returns with fresh new dishes with Korean twistsJoanne 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 making...

The Korean Vegan: Homemade : Recipes and Stories from My Kitchen

Joanne Lee Molinaro

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 14, 2025.

“I never had to leave the country to taste the world’s flavors. Wherever you live, come along with me.”This book is a love letter.It is a love letter to the people who create and evolve American cuisine every day.It is a love letter to the foods that give America its...

Padma's All American : Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond

Padma Lakshmi

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Nov 4, 2025.

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...

Soju Party : How to Drink (and Eat!) Like a Korean : A Cookbook

Irene Yoo

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

A delightful deep dive into the versatility of instant ramen, this umami-rich instruction manual with 40+ international recipes will help you become a better chef and get creative in the kitchen using a classic comfort food slurped around the world.Instant ramen, while a seemingly simple dish straight out of the packet,...

Instant Ramen Kitchen : 40+ Delicious Recipes That Go Beyond the Packet

Peter J. Kim

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

Celebrate Khmer and Cambodian American cuisine with award-winning chef and restaurateur Nite Yun, featuring over 100 recipes for her favorite dishes.Khmer recipes and culinary techniques are traditionally passed orally from generation to generation, and in My Cambodia, Nite takes special care to preserve these dishes. Filled with the historical context of Cambodia’s...

My Cambodia : A Khmer Cookbook

Nite Yun, with Tien Nguyen

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 23, 2025.

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...

Cook Like a King : Recipes from My California Chinese Kitchen

Melissa King, with JJ Goode

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

Signed copies will be available starting November 4th,2025 - please click the above box if you'd like to wait for a signed copy! James Beard–nominee and chef of the Thai restaurant International Market in Nashville, Arnold Myint shares how to make the Thai food he grew up with in a cookbook that...

Family Thai : Bringing the Flavors of Thailand Home

Arnold Myint, Kat Thompson

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 7, 2025.

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.briNo one knows the “why” or “how” of baking better than Helen Goh, recipe developer with Yotam Ottolenghi for more...

Baking and the Meaning of Life : How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes

Helen Goh

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 21, 2025.

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...

House of Nanking : Family Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite Chinese Restaurant

Kathy Fang, Peter Fang

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 30, 2025.

Originally self-published. A boundary-pushing pan-Asian vegetarian cookbook, PlantAsia delivers traditional Asian vegetable wisdom reinvented through a modern, multicultural lens PlantAsia is a continent-spanning celebration of Asia’s diverse and evolving food traditions that will transform the way you think about and cook with vegetables. Combining storytelling, technique, and unique flavor pairings, chef and author...

PlantAsia : Asia's Vegetable Wisdom in Recipes, Stories and Techniques

Pamelia Chia

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 28, 2025.

A delectable collection of over 75 plant-based recipes for vegan butters, creams, cheeses, desserts, and more, from the award-winning chef and bestselling author of Artisan Vegan Cheese.Imagine enjoying a batch of fresh strawberry ice cream on a hot summer day. It tastes just as delicious as the beloved classic, but at...

The Vegan Creamery : Plant-Based Cheese, Milk, Ice Cream, and More

Miyoko Schinner

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 15, 2025.

Enjoy easy and accessible everyday recipes and discover no-nonsense nutrition info that debunks food myths from social media sensation Nutrition by Kylie.Registered dietitian and social media star Kylie Sakaida, a.k.a. @NutritionbyKylie, knows how difficult it can be to keep track of the confusing and often conflicting information about nutrition we...

So Easy So Good : Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating

Kylie Sakaida

Caffeine connoisseur Asia Lui Chapa is back with 60 new recipes, like the Greek Frappe and Honey Cream Coffee, that will slash your weekly coffee spending in half! With this cozy collection of recipes, you’ll learn to brew luxurious café drinks at home and save tons on your daily caffeine...

Brew This Book : Make Coffee Shop Lattes, Cold Brews, Frappes and More at Home for a Fraction of the Price

Asia Lui Chapa

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Sep 9, 2025.

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