spring cookbooks

I am so excited about the new cookbooks that have come out in the past few months!  Stick me in a bookstore and I will read a cookbook cover to cover, tapping your arm to look at the great recipes and photos every few pages.  I have a growing collection of cookbooks, and am overly happy for it to continue growing, especially when there are books like these!  This collection has a great combination of sweet and savory books, and healthy and indulgent books.

Spring Cookbooks

Layered – I’m so excited about this blog turned cookbook!  Layered is all about, can you guess?  Layer cakes!  This cookbook just came out a few weeks ago and the sneak peaks and recipes people have already made look amazing!  Layer cakes can be tricky and a little daunting, but this book is filled with amazing flavor combinations and beautiful photos that look too good not to try.   I mean, how can you resist flavors like riesling rhubarb and salted caramel london fog?  I can’t wait to look through this book!

Sweeter off the Vine – With spring in full force and summer just around the corner, I am already trying to soak up all of the fresh fruits that I can.  Strawberry gallette?  Raspberry sorbet?  Rhubarb cake?  Yes, yes and yes, please.  Sweeter Off the Vine is filled with treats for all seasons, all based on seasonal fruits.  Surprise, it’s also by a well-known blogger whose recipes have been featured all around the internet and in magazines such as Bon Appetit and Good Housekeeping.

Love and Lemons – I have heard nothing but great things about this new cookbook.  Based on the award-winning blog of the same name, Love and Lemons is full of delicious, healthy recipes for easy, impromptu meals.  All of the photos I have seen look so crisp and fresh – perfect for the spring and summer fruit and veggies that are coming!  I’d love to have this one in my cookbook library for those nights when you aren’t sure what to make for dinner.

The New Sugar and Spice – Authored James Beard nominee, and former food editor in the test kitchens of Good Housekeeping, Fine Cooking, and Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, Samantha Seneviratne, this cookbook offers a unique twist on typical baked goods.  To continue the food blogger theme, Samantha blogs about dessert at “Love, Cake”, but her recipes in this cookbook were inspired by her Sri Lankan background and the spices and flavors from her family trips there. 

Southern Living Community Cookbook – I just got this cookbook for my birthday and am already looking forward to sitting down and sifting through it to find the recipes I want to make right away.  One of my favorite classes in college was a course called Food in American Culture, where we studied all kinds of foodways, how food is farmed in the US, food as it related to the separate cultures in America historically, and some fun atypical units like “barbecue in the US,” which is a whole other debate in and of itself.  One of the units we studied was community cookbooks.  Community cookbooks aren’t as common now as they used to be, but I still think it is an interesting concept.  While the model doesn’t necessarily create a cohesive cookbook of similar cooking styles, these cookbooks bring together the best recipes from everyone in the community.  You only get a few submissions, and your name is attached to them, so they better be good – at least that’s the thought.  The Southern Living Community Cookbook was written and tested by southern chef Sheri Castle, but the recipes come from over 50 years of Southern Living reader recipe submissions, southern chefs, and famous community cookbooks.  But, unlike the community cookbooks of yore, this one is woven together with a strict recipe tester and a cohesive voice.  What to make first? 

Little Flower Baking Company – I love love love little cafes and bakeries.  I always try to fit one into all of my trips.  This cookbook comes from the California cafe and candy kitchen, Little Flower Candy Company, and is filled with gorgeous photos of all varieties of baked treats.  The former pastry chef author delivers impressive recipes to home cooks in this beautiful cookbook.

Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking – This one comes out next week and is, again, authored by a blogger (I’m sensing a theme here).  Like the blog, Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cookbook focuses on recipes that use either 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl or pot, or 30 minutes or less to prepare.  It is filled with recipes that are easy, simple, healthy and delicious.  This is another one I would love to have on hand for some impromptu nights with no dinner plans (or days with no brunch or dessert plans for that matter).

Chickpea Flour Does it All – This cookbook came out early in this month, and since it’s debut, I have seen tons of delicious-looking recipes on many popular food blogs.  The blogger from Dolly + Oatmeal filled this cookbook with sweet and savory recipes for every diet.  From breakfast to dessert and everything in between, her recipes are flavorful and delicious, with the benefit of being healthy.  In so many of the recipes you would never know chickpea flour was an ingredient.  Here’s to flour power! ;)

Tasting Rome – Combine the talented forces of an expert in Italian food, culture and history with a well-regarded food and travel photographer and editor, and you have Tasting Rome, Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City. Written and photographed by two Americans as a love letter to the adopted city they call home, each recipe in this cookbook tells a story about the history, traditions, geography and cultures in Italy. Part travelogue and part recipe book, Tasting Rome is a beautiful collection of photos, Roman history and guides, and recipes that will make you want to hop on the next plane and take a Roman holiday.

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