AAPI & diaspora authors

A brand-new baking collection from Bake Off's Chetna Makan, with over 80 deliciously-tempting recipes that combine her love of simple home cooking with creative flavor twists.Chetna's popular and accessible style has charmed millions of people since her first appearance on our screens in The Great British Bake Off. Since then, she...

Chetna's Easy Baking : With a Twist of Spice

Chetna Makan

Kids discover the joy, creativity, and excitement of grown-up jobs in Mayumi Oono’s series of interactive board books, each with a unique selection of craft supplies.Little kids are fascinated by the world of grown-up work. Created by the talented Japanese illustrator Mayumi Oono, the Little Professionals series takes pretend play...

I Am a Little Pastry Chef (Careers for Kids)

Mayumi Oono (Illustrated by)

Fast, fresh, plant-based dishes from Asian chef Ching-He Huang, offering her modern take on recipes that are traditionally meat and dairy free. Asian food has always included a variety of meat and dairy free recipes. Focusing entirely on these plant- based dishes, Ching draws inspiration from across Asia to create...

Asian Green : Everyday Plant Based Recipes Inspired by the East

Ching-He Huang

From the host of the beloved Netflix series Time to Eat and winner of The Great British Baking Show come over 100 time-smart recipes to tackle family mealtime. Nadiya Hussain knows that feeding a family and juggling a full work load can be challenging. Time to Eat solves mealtime on weeknights and busy days with quick...

Time to Eat : Delicious Meals for Busy Lives

Nadiya Hussain

From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. “David puts words to so many of...

Eat a Peach

David Chang

Opening with Japan's top ten favorite comfort foods—from Deep Fried Crunchy Chicken to Japanese-Style Meat and Potato Hotpot—this cookbook is packed with authentic versions of the dishes that Japanese people eat every day. In this book you'll find all the classics you've enjoyed at restaurants and on visits to Japan—from...

Classic Home Cooking from Japan : Healthy Homestyle Recipes for Japan’s Favorite Dishes

Asako Yoshida

EATER’S COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR From the Michelin-starred chef and Iron Chef America and Top Chef Masters contestant—a hilarious, self-deprecating, gorgeous new cookbook—the ultimate guide to cooking for one. With four-color illustrations by Julia Rothman throughout. The life of a chef can be a lonely one, with odd hours and late-night meals. But as...

Solo : A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One

Anita Lo

Signed copies now available! There are few books that offer home cooks a new way to cook and to think about flavor--and fewer that do it with the clarity and warmth of Nik Sharma's Season. Season features 100 of the most delicious and intriguing recipes you've ever tasted, plus 270 of the...

Season : Big Flavors, Beautiful Food

Nik Sharma

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.

Discover the deliciousness of vegan versions of favorite Filipino foods—part of Workman’s new series of passionate plant-based cookbooks. Whether new to the world of plant-based cooking or already acquainted and looking for easy vegan versions of beloved dishes, Make It Plant-Based! Filipino shows how easy it is to make plants the star of...

Make It Plant-Based! Filipino : 60+ Recipes for Vegan Soups, Stews, Noodles, Snacks, and Desserts

Ria Elciario-McKeown, Mehreen Karim (Series edited by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 13, 2025.

Take outdoor cooking to the next level with this fire pit cooking bible by a live-fire expert.There’s nothing quite like cooking over an open flame. Fire infuses ingredients with its own unique flavors, elevating everything from a hot dog to fresh fruit to a hearty stew with elements of smoke...

Firepit Feast : Adventurous Recipes for Live-Fire Cooking

Diana Yen

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 13, 2025.

In the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America.Jill Damatac left the United States in 2015 after living there as an...

Dirty Kitchen : A Memoir of Food and Family

Jill Damatac

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 6, 2025.

Make your favorite Chinese dishes at home.Don’t get a takeout, make your own! From hugely popular online recipe creator Emma Chung @iam.chungry comes this must-have cookbook for anyone who loves to eat Chinese food. Brought up in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Emma knows the very best meals to cook and...

Easy Chinese Food Anyone Can Make

Emma Chung

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Aug 12, 2025.

This fun and fascinating biography of a Taiwanese ice pop entrepreneur—the author's beloved grandfather—is a terrific read-aloud about inventiveness and the treats of summer.Charlotte Cheng's grandfather always had a bag of coins rustling in his pocket. That bag carried with it "a story of joyful jingles, sultry summers, and fresh...

Icy Fruit : How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across Taiwan

Charlotte Cheng, Vivian Mineker (Illustrated by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 6, 2025.

An accessible introduction to the world of fermentation, with inventive, gut-friendly recipes inspired by global food traditions. For far too long, fermentation has been the preserve of the ultra-foodie. But these techniques don’t need to be complicated or require lots of hard-to-source ingredients. Drawing on his multicultural background and passion...

Ferment : Simple Recipes from My Multicultural Kitchen

Kenji Morimoto

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Aug 19, 2025.

Paperback edition. Hardcover edition available here. A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world. In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a...

Chop Fry Watch Learn (paperback) : Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

Michelle T. King

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 20, 2025.

“A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it.”—Katherine May, author of WinteringPer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there.What stories could I unravel from the orange's long...

Foreign Fruit : A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 6, 2025.

More than a cookbook, Sama Sama celebrates all parts of Julie’s mixed Malaysian heritage through 90 recipes that are "authentically in-between."In Malay, sama sama (“same same”) is a way of saying “you’re welcome” to reinforce the idea of togetherness and equality in this everyday exchange. From successful restaurateur and TV presenter Julie Lin, Sama Sama celebrates...

Sama Sama : Comfort Food from My Mixed Malaysian Kitchen

Julie Lin

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 13, 2025.

Satisfy every craving--salty or sweet, comforting or spicy--with over 80 mouthwatering, flavor-packed recipes from the social media superstar behind Seema Gets Baked on TikTok.Our cravings can vary dramatically from moment to moment—whether comforting and indulgent, fresh and vibrant, salty and flavor-packed—and we all have times when only one flavor will...

Craveable : All I Want to Eat

Seema Pankhania

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Jul 1, 2025.

Working in a Chinese tea garden is hard work, but it's rewarding when it’s done with family!This day-in-the-life picture book for 5-9-year-olds engages the senses as it centers around family and working together while celebrating Chinese culture.A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to...

Picking Tea with Baba

Xu Bin, Yu Yin (Illustrated by), Shan Chen (Translated by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 6, 2025.

The long-awaited K-Quick, from bestselling author and chef Judy Joo, brings all the comfort, joy, and delicious flavours of Korea directly to your kitchen. Easy, quick and accessible, this essential guide is perfect for anyone looking to cook Korean cuisine. Chef, restaurateur, writer, and connoisseur of Korean fried chicken, Judy Joo...

K-Quick : Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less

Judy Joo

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 6, 2025.

Read the world to change the world! In this artful picture book, picky eater Minh goes on a fantastical journey through the mythology and agriculture of rice. Originally published in Vietnam by the nonprofit Room to Read, it has been beautifully revised for this global edition. “I will not eat rice!” is Minh’s...

Minh and the Magic Grains of Rice

Ðo Hà, Lê Quynh, Bac Tran (Translated by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 20, 2025.

A cookbook like no other, The Food of Bharat is a deep dive into India’s culinary history, exploring how Indian cuisine has evolved from the earliest times to the modern day. Chef Helly Raichura, founder of popular Melbourne restaurant Enter Via Laundry, illuminates historical insights with delicious recipes from across regional India.From...

The Food of Bharat : A Chef's Journey through India's Rich Culinary History

Helly Raichura

From the storytellers behind the award-winning The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name comes a powerful picture book about culture and connection through food, perfect for fans of Soul Food Sunday.This gentle picture book speaks to the anxieties many children have about not fitting in with their peers, and celebrates the ways...

Stay For Dinner : A Picture Book

Sandhya Parappukkaran, Michelle Pereira (Illustrated by)

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Jun 10, 2025.

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