The Best Sauce Cookbooks

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving by Judi Kingry, Lauren Devine, and Sarah Page turns summer's bounty into pantry gold that lasts all year.

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

Stop buying vegan cheese and start making something better, which is exactly what Miyoko Schinner and Isa Chandra Moskowitz deliver in The Homemade Vegan Pantry.

The Homestead Canning Cookbook teaches you how to transform seasonal abundance into shelf-stable meals and Georgia Varozza makes every technique feel manageable, even on a busy weeknight.

Simply Korean by Aaron Huh proves that Korean food tastes restaurant-perfect because the shortcuts are built right in—no Seoul trip required.

American Sfoglino by Evan Funke, Katie Parla, Eric Wolfinger, and Nancy Silverton hands you the rolling pin techniques that Emilia Romagna guards like family silver.

Let Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral walk you through Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico, where mole negro, chapulines, and 138 other recipes reveal why food and family are inseparable in this luminous cuisine.

Hand-ripped noodles, cumin lamb, and a Silk Road's worth of flavor collide in Xi'an Famous Foods, the debut cookbook from Jason Wang, Jenny Huang, and Jessica Chou.

Korean BBQ gives you 7 master sauces that crack open the entire Korean-American grilling playbook, and Bill Kim and Chandra Ram make sure every recipe lands on weeknight tables.

What sets India: The Cookbook by Pushpesh Pant and Andy Sewell apart is that it gathers 1,000 recipes from Delhi kitchens rather than restaurant shortcuts, written by an Indian culinary academic who knows exactly how traditional dishes are really cooked across the country.

Cassie Yeung walks you through 80 Asian takeout dishes in Bad B*tch in the Kitch, each one tasting better homemade and costing way less than delivery.

Ferment your way across 5 continents without leaving home—that's the premise of Karen Solomon's Asian Pickles, which unpacks 75+ recipes from Korea, Japan, China, India, and beyond with the clarity of a friend who's already made every mistake.