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The 15 Most Anticipated Cookbooks Of 2021

Preordering these all right now. Join me, won't you!

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It's a new year which means there are so many to look forward to! Here's what our editors are excited about in the world of cookbooks. This is a round-up of the ones we're most looking forward to devouring in 2021, listed in alphabetical order of the authors' last names. You can preorder almost all of them now—so get to it!

Including first-person essays from some of your favorite chefs (Sam Kass, George Foreman, Padma Lakshmi), School Lunch talks about the meal that combines culture and nostalgia to make our childhoods so delicious.

Rodale Books Eat Better, Feel Better

Eat Better, Feel Better

In Eat Better, Feel Better Giada shares her experience changing her relationship with food and 100 recipes that she says boost gut health and immunity. The personal book and recipe guide have been 10 years in the making and many of the recipes are dairy-free, sugar-free, and gluten-free.

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Hearst Home Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep: The Ultimate Playbook for Make-Ahead Meals

Good Housekeeping Easy Meal Prep: The Ultimate Playbook for Make-Ahead Meals

The past year has been hard enough, no? Give yourself a break. Make your life easier. Get a meal prep bible so comprehensive that you'll not stress (about menus, at least) for the rest of 2021. Plus, do you not hear "mustard-crusted mini meatloaves" and just shriek with need!?

Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food

Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food

You may have noticed the whole plant-based way of life that every third person in your life is obsessed with isn't going anywhere. Enter: Hsiao-Ching Chou's forthcoming book, a comprehensive guide through the Chinese food you so often crave, but in an entirely vegetable-focused way.

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If you've been following Jake on Instagram for a while, the news of this cookbook is no surprise, but what it entails might be: The guy is combining all your favorite secular flavors and moshing them masterfully with Jewish classics. Cacio e pepe rugelach? I die! So proud!

Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet

Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet

This is a reprinting of Padma's very successful 2007 cookbook. Looking at it through a new, more 2020 lens (she's now the host of multiple shows and an NYT best-selling author) is such a fun journey.

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Delish Vegan Dinners: 70+ Surprising Recipes!

Delish Vegan Dinners: 70+ Surprising Recipes!

A new kind of vegan eating is here! Whether you’re a lifelong vegan, a curious omnivore, or looking for healthy recipe ideas for meatless Mondays, you’ll discover amazing weeknight dinners, colorful salads, plant-based spins on comfort classics, and much more in Delish Vegan Dinners.

My Shanghai

My Shanghai

The best cookbooks, many would argue, are not just recipes—they're trips, stories, experiences. Betty Liu accomplishes all of those things, bringing the reader along on a year-long ride through Shanghai and its food.

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Cheese, Wine, and Bread

Cheese, Wine, and Bread

Do...I really need to explain why you're going to want this cookbook? It takes a look at how each of these European staples are made, from harvest to fermentation.

The Food of Oaxaca

The Food of Oaxaca

Alejandro Ruiz's gorgeous cookbook breaks Oaxacan food down into three parts: the classics, the coastal fare, and the modern day cuisine you know and love. It's also got a foreword by Enrique Olvera who's been featured on many a food TV show and is chef-owner at award-winning restaurants.

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Martha Stewart's Very Good Things

Martha Stewart's Very Good Things

I would have been good with just one or two very good suggestions from Martha Stewart about...anything, but, sure, yeah, I'll take the 500 tips for a better life she's offering up here.

Clarkson Potter The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes from Everyone's Favorite Thai Mom

The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes from Everyone's Favorite Thai Mom

Even if Pepper Teigen didn't have the best endorsement of them all (...Chrissy's), we'd be beyond excited to learn all there is to about Thai cooking from her. Plus, there's an "Always Snacking" section.

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Simply Julia

Simply Julia

Julia Turshen is at her best when she's teaching us how to make flawless, easy comfort food. So 110 "easy recipes for healthy comfort food" feels so, so right.

Rice

Rice

There's no preparation of rice that Michael W. Twitty doesn't tackle here, and the culmination of all of them is a deeply personal walk through the history of the African diaspora: "Rice connects me to every other person, southern and global, who is nourished by rice's traditions and customs," he writes.

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Hearst Home Books, Hearst Home Kids Food Network Magazine: The Big, Fun Kids Baking Book

Food Network Magazine: The Big, Fun Kids Baking Book

It's creative, it's colorful, and it fosters self-sufficiency—the dream!

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