The Best Bread Cookbooks · Beautiful Cookbooks

Joanna Gaines opens her kitchen once more in Magnolia Table, Volume 2, serving up 145 recipes that transform your table into the place everyone wants to be.

Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering cover

Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish teaches you to bake bakery-quality bread and pizza at home—crispy crust, open crumb, dinner entirely on your own schedule.

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza [A Cookbook] cover

Matty Matheson's Home Style Cookery proves that cooking for people you love stops feeling like a performance—it's just good food, made simple.

Matty Matheson: Home Style Cookery: A Home Cookbook cover

Dan Toombs' The Curry Guy Bible collects 200 recipes that taste exactly like the restaurant version, except you're the one in charge.

The Curry Guy Bible: Recreate Over 200 Indian Restaurant and Takeaway Classics at Home cover

Your sourdough starter finally has a worthy handbook—one that meets you exactly where you are, which is precisely what Maurizio Leo achieves in The Perfect Loaf.

The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More: A Baking Book cover

Let Meera Sodha walk you through Made in India, over 130 recipes from her family kitchen that taste nothing like the takeout menu.

Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen cover

Mastering Pizza insists that stop ordering pizza once you taste what your oven can actually do, and Marc Vetri and David Joachim prove it with doughs calibrated for every kitchen in America.

Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone [A Cookbook] cover

Bake 2 brownies instead of 24, and actually eat them warm—which is exactly what Saura Kline makes possible in Small Batch Baking.

Small Batch Baking: 60 Sweet and Savory Recipes to Satisfy Your Craving cover

Betül Tunç walks you through Turkuaz Kitchen, 85 doughs both traditional and invented, each one tasting like her snowy childhood in Erzurum and the home kitchen she's building now.

Turkuaz Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Dough Recipes for Sweet and Savory Bakes: A Baking Book cover

Jew-Ish by Jake Cohen merges his Ashkenazi heritage with his husband's Persian-Iraqi traditions to create a modern Jewish table that tastes like both history and tomorrow.

Jew-Ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch cover

BAKE makes a case that your oven's been waiting for a baker this confident, and Paul Hollywood has the recipes to prove it.

BAKE: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics cover

Sourdough gets all the attention, but The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread by King Arthur Baking Company reveals 125 recipes proving there's so much more worth baking.

The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread: 125+ Recipes for Every Baker (A Cookbook) cover

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