Let Snoop Dogg walk you through From Crook to Cook, where 50 platinum recipes and behind-the-scenes tales turn your dinner into a party worth staying for.

Southern cooking here ranges from soul food staples and Caribbean-inflected home cooking to centuries of African American culinary history and family-style comfort recipes from a Waco restaurant table.
We curated 5 books for this guide:
Let Snoop Dogg walk you through From Crook to Cook, where 50 platinum recipes and behind-the-scenes tales turn your dinner into a party worth staying for.

Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines and Marah Stets is 125 recipes that taste like Sunday dinner at someone's house you love.

Original Flava by Craig McAnuff and Shaun McAnuff brings grandma's Jamaican kitchen straight to your counter, minus the plane ticket to Kingston.

Toni Tipton-Martin's Jubilee offers over 100 recipes reclaiming the Black chefs who built American cuisine, from enslaved kitchen masters to celebrated entrepreneurs.

Biscuits, lasagna, and stories worth setting the table for fill Magnolia Table, Volume 3, where Joanna Gaines shares the recipes―old and new―that have mattered most to her kitchen over the years.


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What you’ll cook
Updated August 2026