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Real Thai Cooking

by Rachel Jagareski

Intimate, vibrant, exuberant, and with elements of a travelogue, Chawadee Nualkhair’s cookbook "Real Thai Cooking" introduces regional specialties with flair. Surveying four Thai regions and their unique cooking styles, flavors, and... Read More

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Japan

by Jeana Jorgensen

Despite being known as the home of sushi and ramen, Japan has a long history of vegetable-forward dishes, and Nancy Singleton Hachisu’s Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook is a beautiful celebration of its vegetarian cooking. An American... Read More

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Veganistan

by Rebecca Foster

In "Veganistan", Sally Butcher spotlights Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavors through spice-rich, plant-based meals. Butcher and her Persian husband run Persepolis in London, a restaurant where “the Middle East is Allah’s gift... Read More

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The Vegetarian Reset

by Meg Nola

Written in a welcoming tone, Vasudha Viswanath’s cookbook "The Vegetarian Reset" shares fresh alternatives to vegetarian diet staples like “lab-grown burgers” and carbohydrate-laden pastas and rices. These “moderately low-carb”... Read More

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Have You Eaten Yet?

by Karen Rigby

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the... Read More

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Motherland

by Meg Nola

Melissa Thompson’s enticing Jamaican-inspired cookbook "Motherland" combines a solemn history of the Caribbean island nation with notes about its delicious food and spirited reputation. The daughter of a Jamaican father and Maltese... Read More

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The Kitchen Healer

by Aimee Jodoin

Enter the heart of the home to find solace and self-love through Jules Blaine Davis’s New Age book "The Kitchen Healer". Though it contains some recipes, this is not a cookbook, but rather a cooking book. It is a guide to feeling at... Read More

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