Good Food’s Favorite Cookbooks of 2013

As Good Food’s Gillian Ferguson says, the holiday season is the equivalent of Oscar-frenzy in the foodie world because of the “avalanche” of cookbooks that pile up on her desk like fresh a fresh layer of snow each winter (if it actually snowed in L.A.).

So to help you out with some of your holiday shopping, we’ve created a list of some of the best cookbooks and food-related literature from this year for the many characters in your life.

For the die-hard Angeleno…L.A. Son by Roy Choi

For the caffeine addict… Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White

For the beginner chef.. How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

For the more advanced home cook…A.O.C. Cookbook by Suzanne Goin

For the wine novice…The Essential Scratch & Sniff Wine Guide by Richard Betts

For the wine snob… The New California Wine by Jon Bonne

For the vegetarian (or veggie-lover!)… Vegetable Literacyby Deborah Madison

For the celiac in your life… Gluten-Free Girl Every Dayby Shauna James Ahern

For Ottolenghi junkies…Ottolenghiby Yotam Ottolengi and Sami Tamimi

For the not squeamish… Gulp by Mary Roach

For the pie lover…The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen

For the history buff…Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen

For the memoir lover…Poor Man’s Feastby Elissa Altman

For the muckraker… Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat

For the cocktail geek…The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart

For the forager… Cooking with Flowers by Miche Bacher

For the sweet tooth…Sweet by Valerie Gordon