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• Somebody Feed Phil the Book: Untold Stories, Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Favorite Recipes
• Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake With Naturally Sweet Ingredients
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• The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food
• Black Women in Food
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• ‘Made in Taiwan’ is the cookbook that couldn’t have existed 20 years ago
• Pass the Persimmon Hot Sauce

It’s the life-changing cookie that sparked the idea for her latest cookbook. With “The Cookie That Changed My Life,” Silverton takes classic American baked goods — banana bread, scones, twice-baked croissants, granola, cinnamon rolls — and makes the best possible version in the universe. It’s a recipe that includes many of the tips in the introduction, like the now-let’s-see-what-you-learned test your professor gives you after the first three chapters of a book.

Somebody Feed Phil the Book: Untold Stories, Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Favorite Recipes

It’s similar to the one my grandmother makes, with chicken stock that simmers for hours, dried herbs and precisely two matzoh balls in each bowl. Baking without white granulated sugar seems almost impossible. The ingredient forms the very foundation of the craft. It’s such a tough topic to tackle, most people don’t bother.

Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake With Naturally Sweet Ingredients

Lavinia and her daughter are witnesses to the sight. In their absence, Tall Oaks has been run by Will Stephenson, a kind overseerwhom Lavinia had a crush on when she was a child. Tall Oaks flourished underhis care, and the slaves were treated fairly under his management.

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It’s an excellent, useful book that serves as inspiration for cooking beyond what you’ll find on the pages. All cookbooks are narratives carried by recipes, but Cynthia Shanmugalingam is an especially enthralling storyteller. When the pandemic immediately threatened the livelihood of Asian businesses in New York City, volunteer-run organization Send Chinatown Love sprouted and helped raise funds and awareness. This fall the group self-published its first cookbook, celebrating one of the world’s most beloved Chinatowns as well as Little Indonesia, the melting pot of Flushing and more than 20 other neighborhoods. Who among us wasn’t buoyed by the mid-pandemic “Don’t Panic Pantry” livestream show from chef-comedian couple Noah Galuten and iliza Shlesinger? Thanks to both for bringing levity and drunken pantry pasta and Chengdu chai and grandma pizza and Caesar-ish salad into our lives.

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Lavinia tries to take the rap for Jamie but later blames Marshall’s death on Uncle Jacob, a slave who she believes is dead. When James dies of yellow fever, Martha has a break with reality and goes to a psychiatric hospital, leaving Lavinia with Martha’s sister’s family, the Maddens, in Williamsburg Virginia. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

Black Women in Food

Sofreh in Farsi means “spread,” the traditional tablecloth for serving meals. But it means so much more that isn’t as simply translated. To sit at the sofreh is to take part in a ritual with connotations of community, hospitality, respect and manners. For Nasim Alikhani, chef-owner of Sofreh restaurant in Brooklyn, it’s a celebration of her roots in pre-Revolution Isfahan, Iran, and she writes so poignantly about her love of Persian cuisine. The recipes are a reflection of the cooking she grew up with and dishes she learned about traveling back to Iran from New York.

When catastrophe strikes, World Central Kitchen is often close behind. Fittingly, the relief organization’s first cookbook is filled with just as much heart as it is continent-crossing recipes. Chef and Youtube star Rie McClenny’s book may be centered around Japanese cuisine, but at its heart reflects a sentiment that speaks to everyone, regardless of where you’re from, or what you’re cooking. “This book is proof that the tastes from home can be yours, no matter where you are,” writes McClenny. I keep returning to the section on how to build a bento or how to craft a Japanese breakfast. And the recipe for steamed cakes that McClenny’s mother made for her as a child is already a favorite, the matcha cake impossibly soft and just a tad sweet.

Some twists are all about a technique that makes you wish you had thought of it first, like Maria Speck’s shortcut polenta that calls for soaking the polenta overnight so that the actual cooking part takes a dozen minutes instead of an hour. And in Dana Velden’s fluffy buttermilk pancakes, un-beaten egg whites add stability and texture instead of the typical whipped egg whites, saving you time and a sore arm. But my favorite hacks are those that rely on inspired flavor combinations, like Bryant Terry’s use of oven-dried tomatoes to add umami edge to a pan of vegan collard greens, or how Ignacio Mattos adds provolone to a raw fennel salad to balance its lean edge. Whichever recipe you choose to take on, you’ll learn something new about cooking that you didn’t before — and those are the types of books you want on your shelf forever. Lavinia is only six in 1791, when her parents die aboard ship and the captain, James Pyke, brings her to work as an indentured servant at Tall Oaks, his Virginia plantation.

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Think of “Rintaro” as a crash course to turn your home kitchen into a Tokyo izakaya, seen through a Bay Area lens. Abi Balingit has brought us an energetic, playful cookbook that is all about Filipino American and Filipino-inspired sweets. Balingit, who is based in New York but grew up in California, has ordered the book in a kind of journey that takes us from the Philippines through different locales in Northern California before ending up in Brooklyn, where she currently resides.

Others are traced to Puerto Rican communities as far away as Hawaii, such as pastele stew served over rice and topped with an egg, loco moco style. Nina DeeDee’s beans are lately my go-to Sunday one-pot — made with just five ingredients, including copious amounts of cheese. When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. In France, Cocagne has gained a measure of fame through her TV show, “Rendez-vous avec Le Chef Anto,” which focuses on the cooking of a different African country in each segment.

That is why, when Marshall asks herto marry him, she says yes and they return to Tall Oaks with Miss Martha. Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. My favorite book of all-time is probably “Black Boy” by Richard Wright, and I’m currently finishing up Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest, “Klara and the Sun,” a speculative fiction novel told from the point of view of an android companion. An exclusive look at what we’re reading, book club events and our latest author interviews. About two months after their dash to Las Vegas, the Stahls decided to drive up to this mystery spot and have a look around. They found themselves gawping at the entirety of Los Angeles spread out below in a grid that went on for an eternity or two.