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