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What cookbook should I add to my TBR?
One of my New Year's resolutions is to cook through an entire cookbook. I’m an amateur chef hoping to grow my foundation of knowledge so I can improvise with any ingredient and have more fun in the kitchen. I settled on Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat because I find Nosrat’s warm writing style super comforting, and I wanted a book that teaches cooking on a fundamental level.
I dove into the intro and almost immediately lost track of time, sucked in by Samin’s captivating recollection of her childhood, her life-changing meal at Chez Panisse, and her consequential path to culinary artistry. While the book is stuffed with delicious recipes, it is also part memoir, part world history, and part science—breaking down the elements of cooking on a molecular level.
As I started forming my TBR this year, I got stressed about balancing my cooking goals with my literary goals when I came to a liberating realization—cookbooks count as reading! They are full of personal stories, plot twists, and satisfying, delicious conclusions.
This may not be a mind-blowing realization for you (maybe you’ve known this for years). But for me, it has helped my ever-evolving view of reading to be more inclusive and enjoyable. So catch my TBR looking a little tastier this year. I’ve included some of my hope-to-reads below.
What cookbooks should I add to my list?
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat (followed by her latest, Good Things)
https://bit.ly/SaltFatAcidHeatEverand
https://bit.ly/GoodThingsEverand
Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen
https://bit.ly/PassThePlateEverand
More is More by Molly Baz
https://bit.ly/MoreIsMoreEverand
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