Top 15 in Cooking
Week of August 17, 2026

by Braiden Rex-Johnson
For close to 100 years, Seattle's Pike Place Public Market has been a favorite destination for food-loving locals and tourists alike. Packed with stalls offering the best quality and selection of fish found on the West Coast, restaurants serving up Pacific Northwest cuisine, and culinary shops of every persuasion, the market is a fish-lover's paradise. In this colorful gift edition cookbook, best-selling author Braiden Rex-Johnson shares shopping tips, cooking techniques, mail-order sources, and more than 50 recipes for fish and shellfish from the chefs, restaurateurs, and fishmongers who represent the market community. Filled with candid, colorful photos, the PIKE PLACE PUBLIC MARKET SEAFOOD COOKBOOK is the perfect gift for any seafood-loving soul and a great souvenir to bring the best of the market home. • A full-color, gift edition seafood cookbook from Seattle's Pike Place Public Market, including 50 recipes and 50 vibrant photographs of the market's people, sites, and seafood. • Features information on sustainable fisheries and preservation. • Includes a brief history of the Pike Place Public Market. • Recipe highlights include Broiled Halibut with Sundried Tomato Tapenade; Balsamic Glazed Salmon; Mussels Provençal; Shellfish Risotto; and such simple, tasty sauces as Champagne Sauce, Simple Soy Glaze, and classic Romesco.

by Sasha Issenberg
Journalist Sash Issenberg traces sushi's journey from Tokyo street snack to global delicacy, in this fascinating history. Issenberg examines not just the foodstuff itself, but the history, economics and businesses behind the famous fish recipes. It covers topics including the birth of modern sushi, the mysterious underworld of pirates and the tuna black market, Nobu Matsuhisa and what sushi chefs really do behind the bar. It jumps from Mediterranean docks to tuna-auctions to cargo holds to Shanghai streets, all the while making a surprising case against eating local.

by Leigh Anne Wilkes
Create fantastic holiday fare with a twist fit for any celebration with Holiday Slow Cooker. Have more room for other dishes in or eliminate using your oven by having a slow cooker take on some of the elements. Leigh Anne Wilkes created 100 recipes that are extravagant and gourmet, yet easy to make for festivities. Make parties and entertaining less stressful on your oven by leaving your slow cooker in charge. Create feasts for summer holidays with the BBQ Brisket and Triple Berry Crisp; in the fall and winter, there’s Cornbread and Sausage Dressing and Herbed Turkey Breast. Also included are recipes for Valentine’s Day Dinner, Chinese New Year, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo and even recipes for appetizers and breakfast. This book features 100 delicious recipes and 60 mouth-watering photos.
by Diane Morgan
The ultimate pizza cookbook with more than sixty classic and creative recipes from a thirteen-time World Pizza Champion and a James Beard Award–winning author. Pizza master Tony Gemignani teams up with acclaimed cookbook author Diane Morgan to offer the definitive tome on the art of pizza-making. There are more than sixty selections on the menu, including the thick, rounded-edge crust of classic Neapolitan pizza Margherita, the thin crust New York style Italian Sausage and Three Pepper Pizza, and the stick-to-your-ribs, deep-dish kind, smothered in spinach and mozzarella. There are also plenty of new-fangled pizzas: layered with Thai curry flavored chicken or pineapple; cooked on the grill; even quick and easy versions using store-bought crust. Aficionados will find six pizza dough recipes ready to suit anyone's crust preferences. Dough-tossing techniques and tips on using peels, stones, tiles, pans, grills, ovens, and more make this a complete pizza package.

by Alex Maltman
This pioneering book explains geology wholly in the context of wine, including how it works in vineyards and its possible effects on wine taste.

by America's Test Kitchen Kids (COR), America's Test Kitchen
"100+ recipes that you'll love to cook and eat!"--Front cover.

by Maria Dembinska
Topics examined include not just the personal eating habits of kings, queens, and nobles but also those of the peasants, monks, and other social groups not generally considered in medieval food studies."--BOOK JACKET.

by Adam Richman
The host of the Travel Channel's most popular show explains how iconic American foods--including bagels, fried chicken, hot dogs, fries and more--have captured our culinary imagination and explores the ethnic, economic and cultural factors that shape regional food favorites.

by Fred William Sauceman
This book, the first of two volumes, chronicles a highly personal journey, with plenty of loafing stops along the way, through the hills and hollows of Southern Appalachia, in search of the tastes that define and sustain the region's people. Join food writer Fred Sauceman as the sorghum syrup thickens in September, as the First Family of Country Music repeats the late summer ritual of making the vinegary, vegetable-packed relish called chow-chow in Virginia, and as ramps, audacious cousins to the green onion, first push through winter's leaves on the forest floor near the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. Learn pimento cheese techniques from octogenarian pharmacists, eat gas station pizza off a warm car hood, and revel in the simple but ingenious concoction called Beans All the Way.
by Alla Sacharow
Alla Sacharow's passion for Russian cooking springs from her devotion to her native land. For this unique collection she has assmebled 450 recipes, chosen from among thousands, and creates a culinary tour of her homeland. More than 130 full-color photos illustrate the recipes and the art of presentation, and reflect both the Russian countryside and Russian culture. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
by Mrs Abby Fisher
What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, written in 1881, is one of the oldest cookbooks published by an African American. This great collection of southern recipes includes breads, pickles, preserves, pies, soups, and more.
by M. F. K. Fisher
"M.F.K Fisher’s latest excursion into the art or science of gastronomy is more an anthology of the finest writing on the subject than strictly a text of her own composition . . . A royal feast, indeed!" —The New York Times Betty Fussell—winner of the James Beard Foundation’s journalism award, and whose essays on food, travel, and the arts have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Saveur, and Vogue—is the perfect writer to introduce M.F.K Fisher’s Here Let Us Feast, first published in 1946. The author of Eat, Live, Love, Die has penned a brilliant introduction to this fabulous anthology of gastronomic writing, selected and with commentary from the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher. The celebrated author of such books as The Art of Eating, The Cooking of Provincial France, and With Bold Knife and Fork, Fisher knows how to prepare a feast of reading as no other. Excerpting descriptions of bountiful meals from classic works of British and American literature, Fisher weaves them into a profound discussion of feasting. She also traces gluttony through the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and claims that the story of a nation's life is charted by its gastronomy. M.F.K. Fisher has arranged everything perfectly, and the result is a succession of unforgettable courses that will entice the most reluctant epicure.

by Linda Civitello
An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets—now in a new revised and updated Third Edition Why did the ancient Romans believe cinnamon grew in swamps guarded by giant killer bats? How did African cultures imported by slavery influence cooking in the American South? What does the 700-seat McDonald's in Beijing serve in the age of globalization? With the answers to these and many more such questions, Cuisine and Culture, Third Edition presents an engaging, entertaining, and informative exploration of the interactions among history, culture, and food. From prehistory and the earliest societies in the Fertile Crescent to today's celebrity chefs, Cuisine and Culture, Third Edition presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach to understanding how and why major historical events have affected and defined the culinary traditions in different societies. Now revised and updated, this Third Edition is more comprehensive and insightful than ever before. Covers prehistory through the present day—from the discovery of fire to the emergence of television cooking shows Explores how history, culture, politics, sociology, and religion have determined how and what people have eaten through the ages Includes a sampling of recipes and menus from different historical periods and cultures Features French and Italian pronunciation guides, a chronology of food books and cookbooks of historical importance, and an extensive bibliography Includes all-new content on technology, food mark

by Beth Hensperger
This book unlocks the rice cooker's true potential. It thoroughly explains how this appliance works and how to prepare every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean.

by Thomas Pinney
Describes how Prohibition devastated the wine industry, the conditions of renewal after Repeal, the various New Deal measures that affected wine, and the early markets and methods. Goes on to examine the effects of World War II and how the troubled postwar years led to the great wine boom of the late 1960s, the spread of winegrowing in almost every state, and its continued expansion to the present day.