Best Cookbooks of 2009 Lists

December 5, 2009 by Jane

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It's that time of year when all the Best Cookbooks of the Year lists are popping up - ours is up on the Community page now. Our own Susie's list for NPR has been attracting lots of attention. Here are some other best of lists you might like to take a look at. It's interesting how little overlap there is between the lists - does this mean there were a lot of good cookbooks this year or that cookbook reviewers have very different tastes?:

The New York Times
Eat Me Daily
Publishers Weekly
Omnivore Books of San Francisco
Serious Eats
Epicurious.com
David Lebovitz
Cooking With Amy
Michael Ruhlman
Andrea Nguyen - best Asian cookbooks
Chicago Tribune
The Washington Post
LA Daily News
Dorie Greenspan - best baking books
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe - another list from Susie
Amateur Gourmet
Good Bite
Tulsa World

And some best of 2009 lists from the UK:
The Times
The Guardian who also have a Best Food Books of the Decade list.
The Mail
The London Evening Standard
Financial Times

Let us know if you come across any other good lists - info@eatyourbooks.com

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2 Comments

vacherin on 1/4/2010 at 5:01 PM

Fuschia Dunlop has 5 books on food in the Financial Times (!) annual review http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2fb47d30-dae5-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html - you have to scroll down past all the unpalatable 2009 stockmarket tomes to reach the list. I was lucky enough to receive Nigel Slater's latest work 'Tender- Volume One' for Christmas. It's such a pleasure, that I've been trying to eke out reading it over several weeks.
Jane on 1/6/2010 at 11:02 AM

Thanks for the tip - I initally thought you meant 5 of Fuchsia's books were on the FT list, which would be odd since she has only written 4 (and none in 2009). Having checked the link discovered that she had picked her top cookbooks which makes a lot more sense! I wasn't lucky enough to get Tender for Christmas - obviously didn't drop big enough hints.