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Howdy cookbook fans!
What’s up y’all? I’ve missed you. I’m hoping to be around more, and more frequently, from now on. It was so lovely to meet a bunch of you last week at the annual IACP Summit and Awards in Brooklyn, which I attended as chairperson of the cookbook awards program for 2024! The full list of winners can be found here, including Made in Taiwan by Clarissa Wei, which won the Julia Child First Book Award, and Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly, which won the Book of the Year Award. Congrats to all the winners!
Declaring bankruptcy on all deals/news/releases announced before September 1! Cookbook news, let’s do it. (Also uh there are no photos in this issue, what can I say, I’m rusty at this. Hope you like words!)
5 New Releases of the Week
My picks for October 4 to October 11. (Trying something new, tell me if you hate it!)
Banchan by Caroline Choe. There are a few single subject Korean cookbooks coming out this fall; this one seems like it’ll get a lot of use in my kitchen. Chronicle.
Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi with Helen Goh. New Ottolenghi AND they are finally releasing an “alternative cover edition” with the illustrated cover that used to only be available on UK editions?! Someone at Ten Speed has my thanks. Ten Speed.
Why I Cook by Tom Colicchio. I’m not quite sure this memoir-with-recipes would typically catch my eye, but there’s something very…British? About this book? Which is an intriguing move from Colicchio. Artisan.
The Elements of Baking by Katarina Cermelj. I’m a sucker for this kind of intensive reference book, the subtitle of which is “making any recipe gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, or vegan.” Mobius.
My Egypt by Michael Mina. You don’t see cookbooks about Egypt very often! Voracious.
RETAIL Anchovy Book Co. will open in St. Louis November 2 in the Benton Park West neighborhood. Co-owner Stephanie McKinney has also been operating a mobile vintage cookbook shop out of a 1992 Honda Acty Kein van which she calls—what else?—Vanchovy. [Insta, St. Louis Magazine]
In Garten’s telling, she and Martha Stewart lost touch after Stewart began spending more time at a new property in Bedford, New York. Stewart recalled a sharper break, after her conviction related to an insider-trading scandal. “When I was sent off to Alderson Prison, she stopped talking to me,” Stewart told me. “I found that extremely distressing and extremely unfriendly.” (Garten firmly denies this.) Shortly after I got off the phone with Stewart, I received a call from Susan Magrino, her longtime publicist and friend. Magrino wanted to clarify that Stewart was “not bitter at all and there’s no feud.”
The Standard names the 20 best cookbooks of all time, and it’s not a bad list or anything, but Anna Jones is on it twice? Really? Her books are great and all, but? Okay. [Standard]
Actress Jennifer Garner tells The Today Show she has not plans to write a cookbook, which automatically makes me assume she has plans to write a cookbook. [Today]
A cookbook called Beyond Porridge, full of recipes written by women in prisons, has been published by the University of Surrey. It is based on research conducted to study links between food and wellbeing. [University of Surrey]
Not explicitly cookbooks, but you should read Ruby Tandoh on AllRecipes, it’s great. (Plus I spy Christopher Kimball’s Broccoli Casserole reference! I am probably the only person who will always think that’s funny but whatever.) [New Yorker]
All about American-in-Ireland Kristin Jensen, her publishing company Nine Bean Rows, and her short-n-sweet Blasta Books series! [Bookseller]
A 1945 navy cookbook explains how to feed hundreds at a time. [Task & Purpose]
Inside a home renovated for cookbook author Jessie Sheehan and her family. [Curbed]
A food writer moves to France. What cookbooks is she taking with her? [The Spectator World]
Sheri Castle on restaurant cookbooks. [Gravy]
The Rio Grande Guardian remembers Marjorie Johnson, who compiled the Valley Proud History Cookbook in the 1990s, preserving recipes from South Texas. (I actually own this book! It’s full of as-told-tos remembering RGV history, as well as dozens of recipes including cabrito guisado, chile pequin hot sauce, smothered doves, “Texas Jailhouse Chili,” and a whole section on cooking with Ro-Tel.) [RGG]
Cooking from 4,000 year old Babylonian recipe tablets. [Gastro Obscura]
A combo review of Michelle T. King’s Fu Pei-Mei biography that’s out now and Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin. [LARB]
Inside the cookbook clubs of the Chicago Public Library system. [Chicago Reader]
The best cookbooks for bakers. [Chowhound]
Are vintage cookbooks the key to surviving a cost-of-living crisis? I mean, not no, but… [ABC News Australia]
Okay that’s all! I meant for this to be a longer issue but it took me fooooooorever. I’ll be back soon, though. Have a great weekend nerds!
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