Cooks We Love: 11 cookbooks from 2024 recommended by NPR critics and staff NPR NPR has an appetite for great recipes. — T. Susan Chang, food writer Purchase BookDac Biet by Nini Nguyen and Sarah Zorn close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. — T. Susan Chang, food writer Purchase BookMastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking …
Recently I’ve been exploring Los Angeles through its cookbooks. Off the top of my head, a few of my go-to recipes are chicken ginger rice from Naoko Takei Moore’s “Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking”; yogurt panna cotta from “Bäco: Vivid Recipes From the Heart of Los Angeles” ; and the Sicilian-esque currant and pine nut relish from …
Food never happened in a vacuum for Karla Tatiana Vasquez. “The SalviSoul Cookbook” debuts April 30, featuring 80 defining Salvadoran recipes and stories about the 25 matriarchs who shared them with Vasquez. That’s how I’ve been able to touch it when I’ve been so far away from it.” Vasquez inside her kitchen in 2020, as she worked to to get …
