In years past, we’ve noticed common threads amongst our favorite, most coveted cookbooks: baking and comfort foods (last year) or easy weeknight dinners (the year before). This year’s cookery books are works of art in every sense of the word: bright, cheerful covers open to pages of creativity, expression, music, and art—poetry, drawing, painting, and collage—with approachable recipes, too.
Here are 10 standouts.
N.B.: We’ve linked to Bookshop throughout, though we encourage shopping your local bookstore whenever possible, this season and always.
Above: Phaidon’s The Kitchen Studio: Culinary Creations by Artists features the recipes of more than 70 artists—with collages, photographs, paintings, and scrawled drawings alongside. It’s $36.75 from Bookshop. Above: A work created for the book by the artist Kathrin Böhm. Above: One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A Greener Way to Cook for You and Your Family by Anna Jones is all about making more flavor with less waste: Every recipe can be made in one pot (or pan, or tray), and there are pointers for using scraps, shopping with the environment in mind, and creating less waste as you cook. The book is $32.20 from Bookshop. Above: We like the “tiled” cover of Portugal: A Cookbook by Leandro Carriera.
