Top 3 cookbooks for spring 2024
If you love cooking and learning about food, you probably recognize that familiar craving of a new cookbook. I am constantly reading new cookbooks and love the continued education and inspiration, especially when the seasons change!
For spring, I encourage everyone to tap into the lightness of fresh vegetables, fish, grilling, and herbs. Read my three recommended cookbooks for the season below! They also make amazing gifts for Mother’s and Father’s Day.
Three Handpicked Cookbooks for Spring
The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Nilad
Winner of the James Beard Book of the Year 2020, this modern masterpiece by acclaimed Australian seafood chef, Josh Niland, is one of three books in a groundbreaking series on every aspect of fish cookery. The Whole Fish challenges what we thought we knew about the subject by accompanying out-of-this-world recipes with guides on fish butchery, sourcing, dry-aging, curing, and ultimate crisp-skin pan-frying. Your reverence for this incredible protein will be taken to the next level with this straight-forward, easy to follow and artful book.
Or you can get the whole collection. His other two books are also highly recommended: Fish Butchery and Take One Fish.
Charlie Trotter’s Vegetables
This is one of my all-time favorite resources, and I open it weekly!
Charlie Trotter is the author of 14 cookbooks and three management books and is an eight-time James Beard Award winner. With 80+ vegetable-focused recipes, "Charlie Trotter’s Vegetables" presents unforgettable seasonal plant-based fare in this classic cookbook from the seminal Chicago chef. Each luxurious dish is pictured in the same lavish style that so distinguished Trotter's first book. Organized by month, each chapter offers four or five savory dishes and one sweet course highlighting seasonal ingredients at their peak of freshness. Each chapter also features extensive wine notes, so ambitious cooks can serve a gourmet multicourse vegetable meal, recreating the experience of dining at the acclaimed restaurant.
The Japanese Grill by Tadashi Ono & Harris Salat
American grilling, Japanese flavors. In this bold cookbook, chef Tadashi Ono of Matsuri and writer Harris Salat share a key insight: that live-fire cooking marries perfectly with mouthwatering Japanese ingredients.
Packed with fast-and-easy recipes, versatile marinades, and step-by-step techniques, The Japanese Grill will have you grilling amazing steaks, pork chops, salmon, tomatoes, and whole chicken, as well as traditional favorites like yakitori, yaki onigiri, and whole salt-packed fish. Whether you use charcoal or gas, or are a grilling novice or disciple, you will love dishes like Skirt Steak with Red Miso, Garlic–Soy Sauce Porterhouse, Crispy Chicken Wings, Yuzu Kosho Scallops, and Soy Sauce-and-Lemon Grilled Eggplant.
Ono and Salat include menu suggestions for sophisticated entertaining in addition to quick-grilling choices for healthy weekday meals, plus a slew of delectable sides that pair well with anything off the fire.
This book will set you up for amazing cooking entertainment all season long!
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