2022 James Beard Nominees

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Grains for Every Season : Rethinking Our Way with Grains

Joshua McFadden, Martha Holmberg

The Korean Vegan Cookbook : Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen

Joanne Lee Molinaro

Mooncakes and Milk Bread : Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries

Kristina Cho

Cooking at Home : Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Recipes (and Love My Microwave)

David Chang, Priya Krishna

To Asia, with Love : Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories from the Heart

Hetty McKinnon

Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking

Cheryl Day

Black Food : Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora

Bryant Terry (Edited by)

The Way of the Cocktail : Japanese Traditions, Techniques, and Recipes

Julia Momosé, Emma Janzen

Modernist Pizza

Nathan Myhrvold, Francisco Migoya

Everyone’s Table : Global Recipes for Modern Health

Gregory Gourdet, JJ Goode

Pasta : The Spirit and Craft of Italy’s Greatest Food, with Recipes

Missy Robbins, Talia Baiocchi

In Bibi’s Kitchen : The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries

Hawa Hassan, Julia Turshen

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More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary...

Bress ‘n’ Nyam : Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer

Matthew Raiford, with Amy Paige Condon

A seed of grass nourishes the global table Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; as main dish, side...

Rice : A Savor the South Cookbook

Michael W Twitty

2020 James Beard Nominee - Writing Paperback By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company...

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Paperback

Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein

A wildly inventive soul food bible from a two-time Chopped winner and the host of Snapchat's first-ever cooking show. Thousands of fans know Lazarus Lynch for his bold artistic sensibility, exciting take on soul food, and knockout fashion sense. Laz has always had Southern and Caribbean food on his mind and running...

Son of a Southern Chef : Cook with Soul

Lazarus Lynch

At noma—four times named the world’s best restaurant—every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether it’s a bright hit of vinegar, a deeply savory miso, an electrifying drop of garum, or the sweet intensity of black garlic. Fermentation is one of the foundations behind noma’s extraordinary flavor profiles. Now René...

The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Foundations of Flavor)

René Redzepi, David Zilber

2019 James Beard Winner - American In two of the most renowned and historic venues in Harlem, Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson created a unique take on the Afro-Asian-American flavor profile. Their foundation was a collective three decades of traveling the African diaspora, meeting and eating with chefs of color,...

Between Harlem and Heaven : Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day

Alexander Smalls, JJ Johnson, Veronica Chambers

Hardcover A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition,...

The Cooking Gene : A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South - Hardcover

Michael W. Twitty

Edna Lewis was one of the greatest and most influential chefs in American history. An African-American woman who rose from humble beginnings, she became famous for reviving the almost forgotten world of refined Southern cooking. The Edna Lewis Cookbook was her first book, published in 1972, and contains over 100...

The Edna Lewis Cookbook

Edna Lewis, Evangeline Peterson

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Because the nation needs it now. A bold investigation into America’s racial history and its contemporary echoes from “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (New York Observer), told through the author’s own evolving understanding of the subject over the...

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

NAACP Image Award Winner A mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger. After bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the New York Times titled “Black Women and Fat,”...

Soul Food Love : Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family

Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams

A beautiful, healthy cookbook that highlights the ease of Caribbean cooking in the Western world.In West Winds, award-winning food writer Riaz Phillips tells countless tales of Jamaica through its dishes, drawing on his memories of growing up in the Caribbean diaspora of London and time living in Jamaica.With a mix of...

West Winds : Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica

Riaz Phillips

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Aug 16, 2022.

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.What would it...

Rest Is Resistance : A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 11, 2022.

WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and...

Franchise : The Golden Arches in Black America (paperback)

Marcia Chatelain

A vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and classGetting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban...

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South

Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.

75 sweet and savory pie, quiche, and tart recipes from one of the stars of Netflix's Bake Squad.Maya-Camille Broussard launched her social mission-based bakery, Justice of the Pies, as a way to honor her father’s memory and their shared passion for pie—and justice. She also gives back to her community through teaching, donating, and empowering others.In Justice of the...

Justice of the Pies : Sweet and Savory Pies, Quiches, and Tarts Plus Inspirational Stories from Exceptional People

Maya-Camille Broussard

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 18, 2022.

80+ comfort-filled recipes that trace the roots of modern California soul food to the Great Migration—from the acclaimed chef and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen.Through more than 80 seasonally inspired recipes, Tanya Holland's California Soul showcases modern soul food from the acclaimed chef of Brown Sugar Kitchen and host of Tanya's Kitchen Table. Tanya’s inventive...

Tanya Holland's California Soul : Recipes from a Culinary Journey West

Tanya Holland, Maria C. Hunt, Kelley Fanto Deetz

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Oct 25, 2022.

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how...

How to Raise an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Jun 14, 2022.

Yawd = comfort food that sticks to your ribs! Dive into this bold, flavor-filled cookbook packed with fresh Afro-Caribbean recipes to bring some island vibes to your home.In his first cookbook, Top Chef Canada star Adrian Forte shares more than 100 inspiring and delicious recipes to get you fired up in the...

Yawd : Modern Afro-Caribbean Recipes

Adrian Forte

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Jun 7, 2022.

The recipes in this book highlight seasonal bounties and four major Caribbean flavors, resulting in a basketful of healthy, edible treasures! This paperback edition contains 5 brand new recipes.This innovative cookbook presents a new way to look at the four seasons through four ingredients that are integral to Caribbean flavors...

Caribbean Flavors for Every Season : 85 Coconut, Ginger, Shrimp, and Rum Recipes

Brigid Washington (Author), Nina Compton (Foreword by)

The very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor—who draws on her decade of experiences observing the holiday.On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General...

Watermelon and Red Birds : A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

Nicole A. Taylor

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after May 31, 2022.

An inspiring manual that shows you how to brew beers at home using wild fermentation techniques Produced using a mixture of naturally occurring yeasts and bacteria, wild fermented beers offer the ‘fine dining’ of the beer world. These beers are how beer tasted 200 years ago, before brewing was industrialized,...

Wild Brews : Brewing Wild Beers at Home, from Beginner to Expert

Jaega Wise

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Jun 28, 2022.

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the...

Koshersoul

Michael W. Twitty

This book is currently available for pre-order, and will be ready for shipping and instore pickup after Aug 9, 2022.

A celebration of cultural icon Shaquille O’Neal’s love of food, family, and fun, with 80 low-stress comfort food recipes for busy families.Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal loves food. A lot. In fact, fans of Inside the NBA know they’ll most likely hear Shaq tell his co-hosts all about what he ate for dinner...

Shaq's Family Style : Championship Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends

Shaquille O'Neal, Rachel Holtzman (With), Matthew Silverman (With), Matthew Piekarski (With)

A vibrantly designed Caribbean vegan cookbook from the internationally celebrated duo behind Original Flava. Caribbean food is often known for its tasty meat and fish dishes. However, there’s more to Caribbean food than jerk chicken. It also features a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables like plantain, yams, jackfruit, guava, and...

Natural Flava : Quick & Easy Plant-Based Caribbean Recipes

Craig McAnuff, Shaun McAnuff