Collecting various cookbook threads into one place:
Anything new or interesting you’ve read or acquired of late?
What’s on your Cookbook Wish List?
Deals of note on E-books (or print books)
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Here are the precedent threads:
Recent cookbook acquisitions (2019 onwards)
2024 Cookbooks acquired / wish list
E-book deals (2018 onwards)
I just finished a first look through Asma Khan’s latest book, Monsoon. A lovely read, with recipes and stories split into 6 seasons. Might make something from it this weekend.
(My only nit is no index in the e-book, nor a consolidated list of recipes. Missing index seems like it’s a publisher oversight.)
EYB has a number of tempting deals on e-books, and I am trying to justify how many is too many 
– Sift: The Elements of Great Baking 2.99 (James Beard winner & mentioned a few times recently on the baking thread)
– Vietnamese Food Any Day / Andrea Nguyen 1.99 (former COTM, love the recipes)
– Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons / Diana Henry 1.99 – newish DH book
– Ad Hoc at Home / Thomas Keller 3.99 (usable recipes, as opposed to TFL cookbook I have already)
– Vegetables Unleashed / Jose Andres 1.99
– Eleven Madison Park 1.99 (as a memento, though the physical book would make more sense for that; still, at 1.99 I might do it)
– Food52 Genius Recipes 1.99
– Bottom of the Pot / Naz Deravian 2.99
– 15-Minute Indian / Anjula Devi 4.99 – I don’t know much about the author, but the technique she’s applying seems much closer to home cooking than you usually see. She has a number of recipes on her website (and there’s and EYB preview too) so I’ll take a closer look.
– A few Ed Kimber books 1.99
Her TV series “Secrets of the Curry Kitchen” is currently showing on Food Network UK. I’d not heard of her before that.
I didn’t know she has a TV show now. I came across her a while ago because I read about her Biryani Supper Club, but what she’s known for is her all-female kitchen without formal industry training. I think she was also the first British chef to be featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table.
I recently received The Perfect Loaf. I want to attempt sourdough again. I also have Hot Bread Kitchen coming in the next couple of days.
There may be a newish edition, as there was with Roast Figs, Sugar Snow a few years ago, but it’s actually one of her earliest cookbooks. My copy, the original paperback issue, says 2006. Regardless, it has some very nice recipes.
I’ve had this for years, but haven’t used it. However, I will say that it wasn’t a big success back when it was BCOTM on CH, because the recipes are apparently very inconsistent and perhaps not well-tested.
Splurged with a gift card and purchased Joe Yonan’s Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking.
It is physically a beautiful book, though I’m unsure of how practical it will be/maneuverable while cooking. I’ll likely end up either photographing the recipe or hand copying it.
Still, I am very pleased.
The BBC article you link to mentions a restaurant - Imad’s Syrian Kitchen. Imad Alamab is a refugee to our country and has published a cookbook with the same name. It’s a worthy read, not least as he incorporates stories of his move here amongst the recipes. I think I mentioned the book on the previous thread.
Final day of the free shipping offer on bookshop.org ( “anti-prime day.”)
I preordered David Lebovitz’s revised “Ready for Dessert.”
I picked this up today from a store that has a section selling discounted cookbooks. This was reduced from £26 to £7, presumably because this author, who seems to have been an Instagram person who went ‘viral’, is no longer as contagious. It’s actually a very nicely laid out book. And while I don’t celebrate Eid or Ramadan, there are plenty of ideas I can riff off.
I gotta add that your current avatar is probably my favorite on the entire site. 
Thanks 
Kitchen Arts & Letters sent an email today with a picture of books laying on their backs with the bottom edges showing. I’m wondering about the book second from the top on the left side. Does anyone who receives that email know what that book is? The bottom edges show a colored pattern rather than the white we usually see. I don’t recall ever seeing a book like that.
Can it be that 2025 is mostly over? I have acquired more books than I should have this year, but I have rehomed quite a few too. I think my favorite acquisition is America the Great Cookbook by Joe Yonan. I actually bought this as a gift but it arrived too late. Once I opened it, I knew I had to keep it for myself. It is such a fun read.
I am eyeing My Egypt by Michael Mina though my Middle East cookbook shelves are already spilling over. If any of you have it, can you weigh in please?
A birthday present - Boustany by Sami Tamimi
Subtitled “A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine”
I have a library hold on this. Though I haven’t cooked from it recently, I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve made from Falastin, and he has a way with vegetable dishes.
I got that book out of the library and promptly forgot … and now it’s overdue 
Can’t explain why, but I never came to terms with Falastin, so passed the book on
I had the same feeling with that book, but still have it. Maybe some day I’ll get the urge to look through it again. My memory is that I got it the Christmas before covid, which would definitely have had an effect on my cooking abilities and interests, but maybe I have this wrong.
