Daily Special: Explore Cookbooks on Libby

Check out these 5 great cookbooks:

Salt, Fat Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

In this wildly popular book, chef and writer Samin Nosrat breaks cooking and flavor down into their most basic parts. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat functions as a introductory class to be enjoyed by novices and seasoned kitchen veterans alike. Part one serves as an explanation of Nosrat’s cooking philosophy and lesson in why good food taste good, while part two includes fantastic recipes for everything from simple salad dressings to “Thirteen ways of looking at a chicken”.

The Food Lab by J. Kenzi Lobez-Alt

Maybe you’ve already read Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, maybe you already understand how salt can elevate other flavors or how acidity can balance out a dish, but you still want more depth. If you want to know how cooking works on a molecular level, The Food Lab is the cookbook for you. Cooking may be an art, but there’s serious science at work too and this nearly 1000 page tome exhaustively discusses almost every conceivable kitchen hack or trick you may have never thought of. Also, in print this book weighs over 6 pounds, but with a convenient ebook download it only weighs as much as your tablet or phone ;).

Keeping an eye on the kids while they’re home from school can mean that creative and satisfying meals might become less of a priority, but with this collection of “unfussy” recipes from award-winning blogger Deb Perelman, your daily dinner need not be complicated and time consuming to be delicious. These recipes in this book fit perfectly into a busy life, when you don’t have all day to prepare extravagant meals you can still eat (extremely) well.

Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi

You maybe stuck inside, but that doesn’t mean your palette can’t travel halfway across the world! These two Jerusalem born chefs offer a fantastic and delicious survey of the city’s culinary heritage with recipes that come from its Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. From well known middle eastern classics to local favorites rarely found outside of their homeland, the recipes in this book are sure to delight.

Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope

It’s always a good time to try and make healthier and more eco-conscious food choices, and this modern classic vegan cookbook is the perfect place to start if you’re curious about plant-based meals. The Veganomicon covers a giant range of dishes, showing how almost anything can be made without animal products and still be delicious (and yes, that even includes baked goods and deserts!).

Some of these have a short waitlist right now, but there are still hundreds of other great cookbooks and books about food on Libby available immediately!