October is National Cookbook Month—the perfect time to explore the world of culinary delights found on the printed page. From cherished family recipes to innovative new techniques, the library’s collection has lots to choose from! Whether you’re an experienced home cook, a food enthusiast, or learning your way around the kitchen, you’ll find cookbooks to fit every occasion—from cozy meals for one to party fare sure to please a crowd. Here are several recent releases to get you started (select the title link to reserve a copy).
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A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook: 100 Easy, Comforting Recipes for Every Mood and Desire / Adriana Adarme
One hundred easy, approachable recipes for quick weeknight meals and comforting baked goods as well as the author’s Peruvian and Colombian family favorites—all using common ingredients and uncomplicated techniques. -
Dear Grace: Recipes from Your Mother, for the Next Chapter in Life / A warm and wise cookbook written by chef and award-winning food writer Claire Thomson for her daughter as she leaves home for university—one for parents to read and their soon-to-be-adult children to cook from.
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Food Is a Feeling: Recipes and Stories with Love /Carla Lalli
This national bestseller is an intimate, story-driven cookbook that explores the idea of cooking and eating as an act of self-care. It includes 65 time-tested and nourishing recipes from the James Beard Award–winning author of Where Cooking Begins and New York Times bestseller That Sounds So Good. -
Great Bakes: Modern Classic Recipes from the Midwest / Martin Sorge
Martin Sorge, winner of The Great American Baking Show, guides readers through more than 100 recipes for sweet and savory bakes that celebrate the bounty of the Midwest, from modern classics to innovative show-stoppers. -
Hello Home Cooking: Do-Able Dishes for Everyday / Ham El-Waylly
Chef Ham El-Waylly taps into everyone’s nostalgia—his versions of beloved dishes carry a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it, heart-warming quality. These recipes work for cooks of all levels, using core flavors from different cuisines, and frees readers to mix, match, and shake up classic dishes from around the world. -
H Mart, the Cookbook: Essential Ingredients, Techniques and Korean Recipes / Stacey Kwon
The first cookbook from the cult-status Asian grocery store chain is a visual celebration with Korean recipes, ingredient spotlights, cultural deep dives, how-tos, and more. -
Kincentricity: Connecting to Nature with American Indian Food Traditions / The bestselling author of Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People now turns to guiding the reader through the ancestral, traditional foods, and hyperlocal culinary legacies of American Indian tribes, exploring over fifty foods and offering over twenty healthful, authentic recipes.
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The Kitchen I Came Home To: Big Flavors and Tall Tales from My Corner of Kentucky / Sara Bradley
Two-time Top Chef finalist Sara Bradley invites you to pull up a chair for a celebration that’s a little bit Sunday supper, a little bit Saturday night, with over 100 recipes packed with big flavor, moxie, and plenty of heart. -
A Little Something: Snacks, Picky Bits, Dips and Drinks for Lazy Days / Siri Barje
For those days when you don’t have the energy to cook a meal, whip up a little something—no-fuss picky bits, dips, things on bread and boards, and all-important drinks. -
Party Tricks: Easy, Elegant Recipes for Snacking and Hosting / Anna Hezel
Swap the formality of a traditional dinner party in favor of fun, carefree assemblages of small plates packed with big flavor: Here are 50 fancy snacks that come together in no time but make any meal feel special. -
Spookie Cookies: Next-Level Decorating to Make Your Treats Come Alive / Karen Thi
Show off your spooky spirit with these over-the-top, delicious cookies. In this expert guide, two-time Food Network champion Karen Thi teaches everything you need to know to bake and decorate eye-popping, creepy-cute cookies including:
• I’ll Tear You Apart!: Break this zombie in two with a satisfying pull and see it ooze marshmallow!
• Black Market Operation: Extract the sugary organs from an unlucky cadaver cookie in this edible game.
• Someone’s Watching: Keep a look out on unsuspecting guests with a classic haunted portrait cookie with moving eyes.
• Fresh Meat: Package up some human remains with edible plastic. No unwrapping needed!
• Toil & Trouble Cauldron: Whip up a bubbling potion in a stunning 3-D spherical cookie. -
Weeknight Winners, Family Dinners: Kid-Approved, Adult Loved Recipes / Jack Zhang
From the beloved family behind the viral Cooking for Levi phenomenon, a practical cookbook that proves good eaters aren’t born—they’re raised. These easy recipes and simple strategies turn everyday dinners into moments of connection, curiosity, and confidence. -
You’re Welcome: A Baking Celebration with a South-East Asian Twist / Raymond Tan
An iconic collection of sweet and savory recipes for home bakers from self-taught glorious baker Raymond Tan, perfect for holidays and any other cause for celebration.
Would you like to see more?
Visit the library to browse cookbooks (nonfiction section 641) or search the online catalog including cookbooks added this past year or by these popular cooking topics:
