The 15 Most Anticipated Cookbooks Of 2021

Including first-person essays from some of your favorite chefs (Sam Kass, George Foreman, Padma Lakshmi), School Lunch talks about the meal that combines culture and nostalgia to make our childhoods so delicious.

In Eat Better, Feel Better Giada shares her experience changing her relationship with food and 100 recipes that she says boost gut health and immunity. The personal book and recipe guide have been 10 years in the making and many of the recipes are dairy-free, sugar-free, and gluten-free.

The past year has been hard enough, no? Give yourself a break. Make your life easier. Get a meal prep bible so comprehensive that you'll not stress (about menus, at least) for the rest of 2021. Plus, do you not hear "mustard-crusted mini meatloaves" and just shriek with need!?

You may have noticed the whole plant-based way of life that every third person in your life is obsessed with isn't going anywhere. Enter: Hsiao-Ching Chou's forthcoming book, a comprehensive guide through the Chinese food you so often crave, but in an entirely vegetable-focused way.

If you've been following Jake on Instagram for a while, the news of this cookbook is no surprise, but what it entails might be: The guy is combining all your favorite secular flavors and moshing them masterfully with Jewish classics. Cacio e pepe rugelach? I die! So proud!

This is a reprinting of Padma's very successful 2007 cookbook. Looking at it through a new, more 2020 lens (she's now the host of multiple shows and an NYT best-selling author) is such a fun journey.

A new kind of vegan eating is here! Whether you’re a lifelong vegan, a curious omnivore, or looking for healthy recipe ideas for meatless Mondays, you’ll discover amazing weeknight dinners, colorful salads, plant-based spins on comfort classics, and much more in Delish Vegan Dinners.

The best cookbooks, many would argue, are not just recipes—they're trips, stories, experiences. Betty Liu accomplishes all of those things, bringing the reader along on a year-long ride through Shanghai and its food.

Do...I really need to explain why you're going to want this cookbook? It takes a look at how each of these European staples are made, from harvest to fermentation.

Alejandro Ruiz's gorgeous cookbook breaks Oaxacan food down into three parts: the classics, the coastal fare, and the modern day cuisine you know and love. It's also got a foreword by Enrique Olvera who's been featured on many a food TV show and is chef-owner at award-winning restaurants.

I would have been good with just one or two very good suggestions from Martha Stewart about...anything, but, sure, yeah, I'll take the 500 tips for a better life she's offering up here.

Even if Pepper Teigen didn't have the best endorsement of them all (...Chrissy's), we'd be beyond excited to learn all there is to about Thai cooking from her. Plus, there's an "Always Snacking" section.

Julia Turshen is at her best when she's teaching us how to make flawless, easy comfort food. So 110 "easy recipes for healthy comfort food" feels so, so right.

There's no preparation of rice that Michael W. Twitty doesn't tackle here, and the culmination of all of them is a deeply personal walk through the history of the African diaspora: "Rice connects me to every other person, southern and global, who is nourished by rice's traditions and customs," he writes.

It's creative, it's colorful, and it fosters self-sufficiency—the dream!