Eater has a two-part series on
cookbooks to be published this fall - just in time to be
added to holiday gift lists. They list numerous books in several
categories, as either featured or honorable mentions. The
categories include: Chef's, Restaurants, & Other Famous Food
Folks; Pastries, Bakeries, Sweets; American Regional;
International; Booze; Famous Cookbook Authors; Television;
Magazines, Newspapers, & Websites; the Blogs; Single
Subjects; Meat; Vegetarian & Vegan; Memoirs, Histories, &
Other Non-Fiction; and General/Misc. It's a very comprehensive
list.
Here's their introduction - we hope you'll find a few treasures
to add to your libraries here at EYB:
"So what's new for Fall? The big news is pastry chefs are
getting their due: not only is Thomas
Keller releasing a stunning Bouchon
Bakery cookbook, co-written by pastry
chef Sebastien Rouxel, but there are also
books coming out by Hedy
Goldsmith of Michael's Genuine Food
& Drink in Miami/Grand Cayman,Dahlia
Bakery in Seattle,
Brooklyn's Liddabit and Baked bakeries,
and many, many more. Hope you have a sweet tooth.
American regional cookbooks continue to branch out beyond the
South with not one but two books on the food
of Portland, Oregon, many books on West Coast
food, a book on Montana ranch food, and even a book on Chinese food
in Minnesota since the 19th century. As for international trends,
look for books on Southeast Asian
cuisine (Charles Phan's Vietnamese Home
Cooking, Naomi Duguid's stellar Burma) and lots
of books about Northern African and Middle
Eastern food.
And as for design trends, again there are bunches
of jacketless
cookbookswith super matte
photos - which unfortunately often has the effect of
making photos look dull and even blurry instead of edgy. Just a
little gloss, please? Also, there are a whopping eight cookbooks
with exclamation marks in the titles
(so you know people are super excited about them) and several books
with black backgrounds. The chalkboard
restaurant trend has made it to the printed page.
And now, without further ado, on to this year's crop of
Fall cookbooks."
