Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Sweet Lime-Garlic Dressing (Goi Gà)

This revelatory new book from James Beard Award-winning author Christopher Kimball defines 75 new rules of cooking that will dramatically simplify your time in the kitchen and improve your results. These powerful principles appear in more than 200 recipes that teach you how to make your food more delicious and interesting, like:

Charred Broccoli with Japanese-Style Toasted Sesame Sauce (Rule No. 9: Beat Bitterness by Charring)
Lentils with Swiss Chard and Pomegranate Molasses (Rule No. 18: Don’t Let Neutral Ingredients Stand Alone)
Bucatini Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes and Fresh Sage (Rule No. 23: Get Bigger Flavour from Supermarket Tomatoes)
Soft-Cooked Eggs with Coconut, Tomatoes, and Spinach (Rule No. 39: Steam, Don’t Boil, Your Eggs)
Pan-Seared Salmon with Red Chili-Walnut Sauce (Rule No. 44: Stick with Single-Sided Searing)
Curry-Coconut Pot Roast (Rule No. 67: Use Less Liquid for More Flavour)

You’ll also learn how to:

Tenderize tough greens quickly
Create creamy textures without using dairy
Incorporate yogurt into baked goods
Trade time-consuming marinades for quick, bright finishing sauces, and more

The New Rules are simpler techniques, fresher flavors, and trustworthy recipes that just work—a book full of lessons that will make you a better cook.

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Ensalada de Frijoles

Ensalada de Frijoles, Made in Mexico: The Cookbook by Danny Mena, Photography by Aaron Adler and Brent Herrig

Made in Mexico mixes recipes inspired by Mexico City street food, local eateries, and multi-starred restaurants, combining regional traditions and global trends. In more than one hundred dishes for breakfast, antojitos or snacks, salads and ceviches, main dishes, and desserts, as well as staples such as salsa roja and tortillas, chef Danny Mena shows American home cooks the depth and diversity of true Mexican cooking in the capital city, with explanations for proper technique and suggestions for ingredient variations.

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Baked Acorn Squash Stuffed wIth Rainbow Chard, Pecans, and Herbed Barley

Baked Acorn Squash Stuffed with Rainbow Chard, Pecans, and Herbed Barley, Pecans: Recipes & History of an American Nut, Photography by Robert Holmes.

A delicious superfood, the pecan is quintessentially American but also an international favourite, prized for its buttery flavour and abundant fibre, protein, and vitamins. Pecans give the underrated nut its due with sixty recipes inspired by global flavours and regional traditions, plus sidebars from chefs and writers such as Vivian Howard, Virginia Willis, Gerard Craft, Nathalie Dupree, Sandra Gutierrez, Lois Ellen Frank, Wendell Brock, and Janet Fletcher.

Dishes run the gamut from breakfasts and baked goods to sauces and entrées, showcasing the pecan’s delicious versatility in original recipes, including Pecan, Pineapple, and Lemon Sunrise Smoothies; Fried Pecan-Coated Oysters with Old Bay Remoulade; Penne with Turnips and Turnip Green-Pecan Pesto; Stir-Fried Pecan Kung Pao Chicken; and Mexican Dark Chocolate Pecan Shortbread Tart.

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Rosemary Butternut Squash Soup with Toasted-Hazelnut Milk

Eating whole foods can transform a diet, and mastering the art of cooking these foods can be easy with the proper techniques and strategies.

In 20 chapters, Amy Chaplin, former executive chef of New York’s renowned vegan restaurant Angelica Kitchen, shares ingenious recipes incorporating the foods that are key to a healthy diet: seeds and nuts, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and other plant-based foods. Chaplin offers her secrets for eating healthy every day: mastering some key recipes and reliable techniques and then varying the ingredients based on the occasion, the season, and what you’re craving. (more…)

Black-Eyed Pea and Sweet Potato Stew

Christopher Kimball’s James Beard and Emmy Award-winning Milk Street TV show and cookbooks give home cooks a simpler, bolder, healthier way to eat and cook.

Now featuring more than 300 tried-and-true recipes, including every recipe from every episode of the TV show, this book is the ultimate guide to high-quality, low effort cooking and the perfect kitchen companion for cooks of all skill levels.

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Autumn Grain Bowl with Maple Tahini

Autumn Grain Bowl, Eat More Plants cookbook, Photography by Molly Krebs

In vegetable-loving food blogger Molly Krebs’ first cookbook, Eat More Plants, Krebs introduces 75
innovative recipes for side dishes, main courses, desserts, and drinks that will get vegetarian and meat-loving readers alike to think creatively about using vegetables as the main ingredients of their dishes.

In its five chapters, Crave-Worthy Salads, Bountiful Bowls, Plant-Powered Entrées, Produce Produce-Packed Extras, and Sweets and Sips (with Veggies!), Eat More Plants illustrates unexpected ways for readers to add vegetables into their lives.

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Tuscan Bean Soup

Tuscan Bean Soup, The Soup Book, Photography by © Dorling Kindersley

Make the most of fresh produce all year round with 200 homemade recipes for soup and accompaniments, organized by season.

The Soup Book is packed with plenty of nourishing recipes for every season. Try winter warmers such as parsnip and apple soup or French onion soup, enjoy a light summer lunch of chilled cucumber soup with dill, and make a hearty borscht or pumpkin soup in the fall. The recipes are organized first by season, and then by ingredient, so you can easily find the ideal soup to suit the fresh ingredients you have on hand.

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Tuna kokoro bowl

Tuna kokoro bowl, The Wagamama Cookbook, Photography by Howard Shooter

wagamama restaurants are a global brand with restaurants worldwide in the UK, USA, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden as well as UAE and New Zealand.

Feed your Soul includes more than 70 tempting recipes inspired by restaurant favourites. The dishes have been designed for every occasion, from rapid weekday meals to slow-cooked ramens and the art of making gyoza. Sections include The Basics, Lighter Meals, Nourish your Soul and Small Plates.

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Penne with Trapanese-Style Pepper

In Italy, pasta is more than just food—it is a tradition and a way of life with a long history. In most Italian homes, no meal is complete without a plate of pasta, no matter how it is enjoyed—from a quick basic spaghetti with tomato sauce, to elaborate baked dishes or a simple soup!

This is the beauty of pasta, it is simple to prepare, very versatile and you can make it to suit any occasion and budget. And this is probably why it has become a popular food all over the world. Let’s face it, most people love pasta!

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Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies

Would you believe that you can make high-quality, no-stress sweets using just three ingredients? What if those recipes can be made with ingredients you already have on hand or can buy in a single trip to just one grocery store? Does it sound too good to be true? Charmian Christie, creator of the blog The Messy Baker, promises that it’s not!

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