Every Single Cookbook Recommended on The Dinner Plan So Far
Every week I ask a cookbook author about their favorites. Here are all the links.
I own around 500 cookbooks, split between a number of rather precarious shelves. It is decidedly enough. But I cannot help myself.
Every week when I talk to a cookbook author on The Dinner Plan podcast, I need to hear about their favorites: the most dog-eared cookbooks in their collection, the books they turn to for inspiration, the cookbooks that changed the course of their career paths or taught them something new in the kitchen. The ones they love most no matter how old and tattered—maybe because they’re old and tattered.
The list you’ll find below includes every cookbook recommended on the show thus far.
I’ve included Bookshop links where available; Alibris or AbeBooks if not. Feel free to alert me if something goes out of stock, I’ll be continually updating this page on Substack as more guests add their picks each week.
If you really want to go down the cookbook rabbit hole, this is just the jumping-off point—if you click through on the recommender’s name, you’ll be able to hear the full conversation and learn the reasons why they selected each title.
Books are listed alphabetically by author last name so multiple books by the same author appear together.
Perhaps you’ll find something new to add to your collection. Buying a book from from the links on this list helps to support my work and keep The Dinner Plan flowing, but paid subscriptions make a bigger difference in making this project possible.
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Eric Adjepong and Korsha Wilson: Ghana to the World (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Kiano Moju.
Tamar Adler: An Everlasting Meal (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Clare de Boer.
Albert Adria’s Les Postres d’el Bulli. Recommended by Ham El-Waylly.
Sarah Ahn: Umma (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Joanne Lee Molinaro.
Karen Akunowicz: Crave (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Melissa King.
Vefa Alexiadou: Greece: The Cookbook (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Theo Michaels.
Danielle Alvarez: Always Add Lemon (AbeBooks here.) Recommended by Nagi Maehashi.
Joseph Amendola and Nicole Rees: Understanding Baking: The Art and Science of Baking (AbeBooks here.) Recommended by Zaynab Issa.
Anna Ansari: Silk Roads (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Polina Chesnakova.
Yemisi Aribisala: Longthroat Memoirs (Bookshop here.) Recommended by Tamar Adler.
Reem Assil: Arabiyya (AbeBooks here.) Recommended by Lesley Enston.