Beautiful CookbooksMagnolia Table by Joanna Gaines and Marah Stets is 125 recipes that taste like Sunday dinner at someone's house you love.
Farm-to-table cooking spans backyard American comfort food and bakery classics to whole-hog barbecue and disappearing Cajun bayou traditions, all built on seasonal, local ingredients.
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Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines and Marah Stets is 125 recipes that taste like Sunday dinner at someone's house you love.
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.
Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, and Naved Nasir invite you into Dishoom, where black daal, bacon naan, and the soul of Bombay arrive on your table one recipe at a time.
Smuggler's Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate hands you 100+ recipes, rum knowledge, and permission to build your own Polynesian Pop fantasia at home.
Danny Trejo walks you through Trejo's Tacos with 75 recipes that capture the award-winning flavors of his L.A. cantina—from carnitas to cinnamon-sugar donuts—plus the stories behind them.
The Lost Kitchen by Erin French distills Maine's coastline, forests, and farms into 100 honest meals that taste like home, wherever you're eating.
Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan captures the ramen revolution that reshaped New York City kitchens, one pork bun and fearless Asian flavor at a time.
Rodney Scott learned barbecue before he learned to drive, and Rodney Scott's World of BBQ proves that 4 decades of pit mastery, family legacy, and unwavering craft translate into recipes—and a life story—that stay with you.
Mandy Wolfe, Rebecca Wolfe, and Meredith Erickson show you how salad night becomes the night everyone's actually excited about in Mandy's Gourmet Salads.
Melissa M. Martin's Mosquito Supper Club serves up duck gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and the bayou stories that shaped them—before the Louisiana coast disappears into the Gulf.
Nearly 150 recipes so good people will assume you've been baking professionally, which is exactly what Bobbie Lloyd delivers in The Magnolia Bakery Handbook.
Michael Solomonov, Steven Cook, and Michael Persico's Zahav shows you how hummus so ethereal and dishes so vital rewrote what Israeli cooking means in American home kitchens.
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