Dwell Picks: Our Favorite Cookbooks, Just In Time for Fall
Looking to evolve dinner into something new, inventive, and delicious? We asked Dwell staff members to name some of their favorite cookbooks to get out of any culinary rut.
"We, the People cannot live on sourdough alone! In order to form a more perfect lunch, we elect to eat healthier and secure the blessings that crisp veggies and fruits bestow."
The creator of the immensely popular Salad for President blog presents a visually rich collection of more than 75 salad recipes, with contributions and interviews by artists/creative professionals like William Wegman, Tauba Auerbach, Laurie Anderson, and Alice Waters. Julia Sherman loves...
"The OG hippy-dippy cookbook. If you're considering going vegetarian, you won't do better than Mollie Katzen's collection of seminal recipes for plant-based cooking. If you find yourself in Ithaca, NY, I highly recommend going to the Moosewood co-op, too!"
"When he says easy, he means it! I’ve been cooking my way through this for the last month—each recipe is more delicious than the last. My personal favorite: onigiri stuffed with tofu and kimchi."
Japanese cuisine: Fatty tuna! Wagyu beef! Pork broth! Fried chicken! Squid guts! It's a MINEFIELD for mindful vegans. OR SO IT SEEMS. In reality, there's an enormous amount of Japanese food that is inherently vegan or can be made vegan with just a few simple substitutions.
Indian food is everyday food! This colorful, lively book is food writer Priya Krishna’s loving tribute to her mom’s “Indian-ish” cooking—a trove of one-of-a-kind Indian-American hybrids that are easy to make, clever, practical, and packed with flavor.
"Another title with a beginner attitude—maybe I need to check my kitchen confidence level? Either way, Ottolenghi’s approachable recipes make dinner a breeze."
The New York Times bestselling collection of 130 easy, flavor-forward recipes from beloved chef Yotam Ottolenghi. In Ottolenghi Simple, powerhouse author and chef Yotam Ottolenghi presents 130 streamlined recipes packed with his signature Middle Eastern–inspired flavors, all simple in at...
"I keep coming back to the River Cottage Handbooks. They're basically little Scouting guides for adults with a separate trim little hardcover volume for every topic a self-reliant cook needs to know: bread, preserves, fermentation, curing, herbs, foraging."
In this new addition to the award-winning collection, River Cottage master preserver Pam Corbin helps you transform the abundance of your garden (and your friends' and neighbors' gardens) into everything from jams and jellies to vinegars and sauces.
In Fermentation, Rachel de Thample shines a light on one of the oldest methods of preserving food, which is just as relevant today, and shows you how to produce delicious and health-boosting ferments in your own kitchen.
Erin V. Mahoney, Community and Social Media Manager:
"Cooking has long been a joy-less task for me—that is until I watched Samin Nosrat make a bowl of oatmeal. She infuses so much joy and warmth into every dish that even the most resistant home cook will feel called to the kitchen."
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared "America's next great cooking teacher" by Alice Waters.
"Dinner and a movie looks a little different these days, but date night can still feel special with Binging with Babish. I can think of no better time to master boeuf bourguignon and cue up Julie & Julia—it’s on Hulu."
Simple Fare: Spring/Summer is a beautifully illustrated cookbook featuring seasonal, market-driven fare that encourages readers to cook simply and intuitively. Karen Mordechai of the acclaimed Brooklyn-based food community Sunday Suppers shares her meals for cooking at home and her studio.
One of the most respected chefs in the country, Paul Bertolli earns glowing praise for the food at California's renowned Oliveto restaurant. Now he shares his most personal thoughts about cooking in his long-awaited book, Cooking by Hand.
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