A few of our favorites.

• Joy of Cooking, the one and only, the gold standard – if you only have one cookbook, it should be this
• Vietnamese Home Cooking, Charles Phan
• Japanese Soul Cooking, Tadashi Ono
• Bills Everyday Asian, Bill Granger
• The Adobo Road Cookbook, Marvin Gapultos
• Living & Eating, John Pawson & Annie Bell
• Standard Baking Co. Pastries, Alison Pray & Tara Smith
• Every Day, Bill Granger
• Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i, Alana Kysar
• Cucina Simpatica: Robust Trattoria Cooking, Johanne Killeen & George Germon
• Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art, Shizuo Tsuji – everything you need to know about the basics of Japanese cooking
• Mrs. Chiang’s Szechwan Cookbook, Jung-feng Chiang and Ellen Schrecker
• Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking, Fuchsia Dunlop

Tiki & Mixology

• Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki, Martin & Rebecca Cate
• Beachbum Berry’s Potions of the Caribbean, Jeff Berry
• Liquid Intelligence, Dave Arnold