2019: A year of great cookbooks

Celia Sack is the owner of Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco, a bookstore for food lovers. Each holiday season, she calls in to KCRW’s Good Food with a list of her favorite books of the year, and there were many in 2019.

Celia’s recommendations

From the Levant:

Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen - Adeena Sussman

Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking - Einat Admony

The Jewish Cookbook - Leah Koenig

- Yasmin Khan

Mexican cooking:

Made in Mexico - Danny Mena and Nils Bernstein

My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions - Gabriela Cámara

- Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral

Fruit lovers:

Apple: Recipes from the Orchard - James Rich

- Alison Roman

For the baker:

- Apollonia Poilâne

Tartine: Revised Edition: A Classic Revisited - Chad Robertson and Elisabeth Prueitt

For the barfly:

Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time - Brad Thomas Parsons

- Christiaan Rollich and Carolynn Carreño

Vegetarian and vegan:

Love and Lemons Every Day: More Than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes for Every Meal- Jeanine Donofrio

The Forest Feast Mediterranean: Simple Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by My Travels- Erin Gleeson

History buff:

American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way - Paul Freedman

Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food - Lenore Newman

For the advanced cook:

- by Fuchsia Dunlop

- Najmieh Batmanglij

For the beginner:

- Peter Reinhart

New:

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook - Toni Tipton Martin

Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated - John Becker and Megan Scott