Food! New Cooking and Gardening Books
Check out the new cooking and gardening books we’ve added since July!
December 31, 2020
Check out the new cooking and gardening books we’ve added since July!
In this list:
- Gardening
- Cook books
- Special food restrictions
- Desserts
- Diet and healthy eating
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Gardening

Container and Fragrant Gardens
Peter Loewer
This handy gardening guide, filled with straightforward garden care advice, shows readers how to enliven spaces with containers and how to make the most of scented flowers and leaves.

Growing Under Cover
Niki Jabbour
An in-depth guide to building controlled growing spaces for productive vegetable gardening, offering coverage of topics ranging from row covers and low tunnels to cold frames and hoophouses.

Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening
Matt Mattus
Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening is a lushly illustrated book with highly practical, firsthand tips on how to grow truly interesting and unusual flowers.

The Pollinator Victory Garden
Kim Eierman
An environmental horticulturalist and landscape designer shows us how to create a beautiful landscape that attracts and supports many different specials of pollinators so that we can win the war against the demise of these essential animals.

Regrow Your Veggies
Melissa Raupach
This must-have gardening resource reveals how to recycle and regrow more than 20 popular fresh vegetables right a home to get the most out of your favorite foods.
Cook Books

7 Ways
Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week
Jamie Oliver
Offering multiple options for common ingredients from chicken breast and ground beef to potatoes and broccoli, this collection of 120 original recipes reveals how to incorporate satisfying twists and high nutrition into everyday meals.

The Batch Lady
Suzanne Mulholland
The online sensation and time management expert, in this funny and practical cookbook, serves up time-efficient and life-changing recipes and techniques to help home cooks create delicious meals that add taste and variety without breaking the bank.

The Complete One Pot
America’s Test Kitchen
An America’s Test Kitchen collection of 400 one-pot and appliance-cooker recipes includes hundreds that can be prepared in less than 45 minutes and features options ranging from Sheet Pan Pizza to Slow Cooker Spiced Pork Tenderloin.

Cooking for One
America’s Test Kitchen
Provides simple recipes with flexible ingredient lists for 160 delicious and unfussy dishes to prepare in a single serving for people living alone, including Glazed Meatloaf for One, Chicken Sausage Hash and Broiled Eggplant with Honey-Lemon Vinaigrette.

Gordon Ramsay Quick and Delicious
Gordon Ramsay
The celebrity chef star shares 100 tried-and-tested recipes for straightforward, expert-quality meals from his 3 Michelin-star restaurant and Las Vegas burger joint that can be made in 30 minutes or less.

Jacques Pépin Quick + Simple
Jacques Pépin
250 of master chef Jacques Pépin’s classic and timeless recipes for unexpectedly polished and satisfying meals with minimal prep and cleanup.

Joy Bauer’s Superfood!
Joy Bauer
The health and nutrition expert for NBC’s Today show and New York Times best-selling author provides simple, everyday meals that taste great and promote health and longevity including Japanese Salad with Carrot-Ginger Dressing and Detox Salad with Lemon-Chia Dressing

Mastering Bread
Marc Vetri
An artisan master shares dozens of recipes for making simple, high-quality breads at home, taking readers through primary steps while providing options for dishes ranging from Bruschetta and Strata to Ribollita and the author’s Panettone.
One Pot Feeds All
Darina Allen
Including 100 dishes to be cooked in a pot, tray or pan comprising lighter meals, such as soups, baked eggs and frittatas or hearty dishes like stews, tagines and curries, plus about 10 desserts. Chapters are divided into Eggs, Poultry, Meat, Fish, Vegetables, Rice, Grains & Pasta and Sweet Things with an international mix of dishes.

Perfectly Golden
Angela Garbacz
A cookbook of treats from the Great Plains to satisfy every sweet tooth Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, Goldenrod Pastries is a community bakery with an ambitious and talented baker at the helm.
The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook
Jeffrey Eisner
A cookbook of 100 essential dishes that will demystify pressure cooking for Instant Pot users of all abilities—and put an astounding dinner on the table in a flash.

That Cheese Plate Will Change your Life
Marissa Mullen
Creator of the Instagram sensation @ThatCheesePlate Marissa Mullen takes cheese to a whole new level with her gorgeous, show-stopping cheese plates.
Special Food Restrictions
The Clean & Simple Diabetes Cookbook
Jackie Newgent
Taking the guesswork out of healthy home-cooking, this cookbook, along with recipes that feature fresh, flavorful ingredients, provides tips on eating well with diabetes, cooking how-tos, menu ideas and more.
Dairy-Free Meal Prep
Silvana Nardone
Take the guesswork out of dairy free meal prep with 6 weeks of plans and 70 tasty recipes.

How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook Collection
America’s Test Kitchen
Here are 350+ must-have recipes that raised the bar on gluten-free cooking and baking with foolproof techniques for great-tasting lasagna, fried chicken, cookies, biscuits, and more.

The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook
Pamela J. Compart, Dana Godbout Laake
Featuring an up-to-date review of common specialty diets for ADHD and autism treatment, this third edition of the comprehensive cookbook is filled with helpful information and research, and includes more than 150 kid-friendly recipes.

Vegetarian Times Plant-powered Protein Cookbook
Vegetarian Times Magazine
Healthy, delicious recipes with plant powered protein.
Desserts

The Book On Pie
Erin Jeanne McDowell
The award-winning New York Times food stylist and author of The Fearless Baker presents a comprehensive, single-volume resource on the secrets to making great pie that provides coverage of everything from flaky crusts to special-occasion classics.

The Chocolate Addict’s Baking Book
Sabine Venier
Satisfy your sweet tooth, indulge in your all-time favorites and discover new ways to get your chocolate fix with 75 diverse chocolate-based desserts.

No-Bake Vegan Desserts
Christina Leopold
Make decadent treats without ever turning on the oven.

When Pies Fly
Cathy Barrow
When Pies Fly guides the rolling pin novice and the experienced dough wrangler to dozens of shapes and styles of crusty, flaky, delicious treats. Barrow’s well-tested, foolproof crust recipes means pie-making is fun, not scary, and her step-by-step techniques makes turning out a free-form pie practically foolproof.
Diet and Healthy Eating

Dirty, Lazy, Keto
Stephanie Laska
Part girlfriend’s guide, part inspirational story detailing the secret to losing weight and keeping it off without the strict restrictions of a traditional keto diet.

Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs
David A. Kessler
The American body is plagued by obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. In Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, the follow up to his bestselling book The End of Overeating, Dr. David A. Kessler explains how we can reduce heart disease, keep weight off, and reduce chronic disease.

Fiber Fueled
Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI
A board-certified, award-winning gastroenterologist, in this groundbreaking book that challenges restrictive diet like paleo and keto, shows how the power of fiber can dramatically transform our health through a bold new plant-based plan that draws on cutting-edge science.

Help Yourself
Lindsay Maitland Hunt
Emphasizing plant-based and whole ingredients this cookbook offers more than 125 recipes, including Brussels Sprouts and Peanut Butter Curry Bowl and Seeded Almond Flour Waffles with Raspberry-Flax Smash, that will help restore microbial balance in the gut.

How to be a Conscious Eater
Sophie Egan
An expert in health, nutrition and sustainability revolutionizes our understanding of food in a way that will change the way we shop, cook and eat, providing us with the essential information to make informed choices amid the chaos and hype of marketing.

The How Not to Diet Cookbook
Michael Greger
The founder of Nutritionfacts.org and best-selling author of How Not to Die explains how to make mindful eating part of a healthy lifestyle, outlining satisfying, science-based options that promote weight loss without high expense or counting calories.

Instant Loss on a Budget
Brittany Williams
The best-selling author presents 125 new gluten- and dairy-free recipes, from Spicy Cauliflower Mac and Cheese to Chocolate Mocha Nut Clusters, that use unprocessed ingredients to promote natural weight loss.

Life in the Fasting Lane
Jason Fung
This essential guide to intermittent fasting, where dieters restrict food intake for certain time periods, offers answers to common questions about the practice which has been shown to promote weight loss, longevity and cognitive function.

Skinnytaste Meal Prep
Gina Homolka
The best-selling author of The Skinnytaste Cookbook shares more than 120 healthy, diverse convenience recipes that use everyday ingredients for satisfying, high-nutrient freezer foods, minimum-effort suppers and grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches.

Smart Plants
Julie Morris
Smart Plants offers a practical strategy for optimizing brain health through plant-based foods containing a unique array of nutrients and natural compounds-including nootropics, cognition-enhancing substances that can improve memory, learning, and problem solving. Bestselling author Julie Morris shares 65 easy, inviting recipes that are unbelievably delicious. Feed your brain with such palate-pleasing dishes as Berry-Almond Amaranth Porridge, Fig & Hazelnut Wild Rice Salad, Garlicky Butter Bean Soup with Kale, and Matcha Custard with Wild Berries.

The Sugar Brain Fix
Mike Dow
A psychotherapist, author and brain-health expert offers a simple but powerful three-pronged approach to help break sugar addictions that have been proven to shrink the brain, beginning with eliminating sugar, adding good fats and increasing probiotics.
The Ultimate Mind Diet Cookbook
Amanda Foote
Feed your brain—100 science-based recipes for mind health and longevity.

This is Your Brain on Food
Uma Naidoo, MD
A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Cornell nutrition specialist and professional chef shares actionable dietary recommendations and brain-healthy recipes for foods that can support the treatments of common psychological and cognitive health challenges, from anxiety to sleep disorders.