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Dutch Baby

Pancakes: Dutch Baby (United States). Photography: Haarala Hamilton (page 119)

Billions of people around the world consider breakfast the most important and comforting time of the day, but in recent years, the morning meal has undergone a cultural transformation. Breakfast has evolved from a basic necessity into an area of exceptional culinary innovation with the popularity of weekend brunch, all-day breakfast menus at restaurants, and the millions of breakfast hashtags that can be found on Instagram.

Breakfast: The Cookbook recognizes the rise of breakfast cuisine with an authoritative collection of 380 delicious recipes for the home cook. Written by breakfast expert Emily Elyse Miller breakfast, founder and pioneer of the global culinary series The Breakfast Club, this book contains extensive research on dishes from around the world.

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Spicy Kofte Kebab
The Turkish Cookbook

Spicy Kofte Kebab. Photography by Toby Glanville (page 207)

Vibrant, bold, and aromatic, Turkish food—from grilled meats, salads, and gloriously sweet pastries to home-cooking family staples such as dips, pilafs, and stews—is beloved around the world.

The Turkish Cookbook is compiled by Musa Dagdeviren, the country’s most renowned culinary figure and the leading authority on Turkey’s unique food traditions, as featured in the Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table. (more…)

Lemon Tart
Lemon Tart

Tarte au Citron (Lemon Tart). Photography by Liz and Max Haarala Hamilton

Simple & Classic is a newly curated collection of the very best of Jane Hornby’s recipes from What to Cook & How to Cook It, Fresh & Easy, and What to Bake & How to Bake It, each previously published by Phaidon. The beauty of Hornby’s recipes is how easy they are to perfect—with detailed step-by-step shots and beautiful images of the finished dishes, this is destined to be the most useful cookbook on the shelf. Great value, it is released with the original price of What to Cook & How to Cook It, but packed full with the most popular recipes from all of Hornby’s books. From Paella to Roast Lamb and Rosemary Potatoes, and Chocolate Mousse with Cherries, this book covers classic and contemporary recipes with an international perspective. (more…)

Noma’s Grilled Asparagus and Tender Spruce
René Redzepi's Grilled Asparagus and Tender Spruce

Photograph by Ditte Isager

A Work in Progress: A Journal is a highly personal document of the creative processes at noma and the challenges faced by its chefs over a twelve-month period in an unspecified year of the restaurant’s history. After a month of vacation, world-famous chef René Redzepi made a resolution to keep a journal and to dedicate a year to the creativity and well-being at noma. The result is an unusually candid, and often humorous, insight into the inner workings of one of the food world’s most creative minds.  (more…)