“I’ve been a judge on Food52, and let me just say, the recipes are excellent!” —Gwyneth Paltrow
The Food 52 Cookbook is the first-ever online community cookbook, based on the popular Food52.com website (“Best of the Web” —Saveur) by bestselling author Amanda Hesser and food writer Merrill Stubbs. The beautifully photographed pages are filled with more than 140 delicious seasonal recipes from the most inventive home cooks in America. The Food 52 Cookbook is a feast for the senses, tantalizing with scrumptious culinary delights like Lamb Burgers with Cilantro Yogurt and Strawberries with Lavender Biscuits.

The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Winning Recipes from Exceptional Home Cooks (Food52, 1)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hesser, Amanda

Stubbs, Merrill

Cooking by Ingredient

William Morrow Cookbooks

The Food52 Cookbook was named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2011. Now Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, the pioneers of the online community cookbook return with a second helping of delicious, seasonal recipes from the country’s most inventive home cooks.

The Food52 Cookbook, Volume 2: Seasonal Recipes from Our Kitchens to Yours (Food52, 2)

Baking

The unique, award-winning cookbook―a collection of seasonal recipes from a traditional French garden. Winner of the Best Book on France by a Non-French Writer Award at the Versailles Cookbook Fair; finalist for the Julia Child Award, the Gourmet Magazine Award, and "Best Cookbook of the Year" sponsored by IACP; and nominated in the international category of the KitchenAid Book Awards of the James Beard Foundation Awards. A unique blend of stylish cookbook and earthy garden story, here is a collection of 250 recipes derived from a centuries-old French kitchen garden. The stunning debut of a lively new culinary voice, The Cook and the Gardener chronicles a year in the life of the walled kitchen garden at Chateau du Fey and its taciturn, resourceful, charmingly sly peasant caretaker. Using the fruits and vegetables harvested from Monsieur Milbert's garden, Amanda Hesser creates four seasons of recipes tied ineluctably to the land and the all-but-forgotten practices upheld by Milbert. Hesser's sublimely simple recipes―each with accessible ingredients and clear notes and instructions―also tell a story. They are a month-by-month record of the ingredients available to her, so that this cookbook also serves as an almanac for cooks. Special "Basics" sections at the opening of each season lay the culinary groundwork for the recipes that follow. Tips on how to buy, store, and prepare particular vegetables, fruits, and herbs are presented in margin notes to recipes. By bringing the kitchen closer to the garden, The Cook and the Gardener gives home cooks a new understanding of the produce they have on hand, whether from the supermarket, the farmer's market, or their own gardens. At the same time, it captures the quirky customs and wily wisdom of a vanishing way of life in provincial France.

The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside

W.W.Norton&Company

A food writer for the New York Times uses food to trace her relationship with "Mr. Latte," from first date through his first attempts to cook for her. 50,000 first printing.

Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes

Parenting & Relationships

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A New York Times bestseller and Winner of the James Beard Award All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism―a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything.
Amanda Hesser, co-founder and CEO of Food52 and former New York Times food columnist, brings her signature voice and expertise to this compendium of influential and delicious recipes from chefs, home cooks, and food writers. Devoted Times subscribers will find the many treasured recipes they have cooked for years―Plum Torte, David Eyre's Pancake, Pamela Sherrid's Summer Pasta―as well as favorites from the early Craig Claiborne New York Times Cookbook and a host of other classics―from 1940s Caesar salad and 1960s flourless chocolate cake to today's fava bean salad and no-knead bread.
Hesser has cooked and updated every one of the 1,000-plus recipes here. Her chapter introductions showcase the history of American cooking, and her witty and fascinating headnotes share what makes each recipe special. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is for people who grew up in the kitchen with Claiborne, for curious cooks who want to serve a nineteenth-century raspberry granita to their friends, and for the new cook who needs a book that explains everything from how to roll out dough to how to slow-roast fish―a volume that will serve as a lifelong companion.

The Essential,Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

Cooking Education & Reference

"Tender, wry, passionate, truthful. To read Hesser's prose is to hunger for more."―Nigella Lawson Life in the city, love, and unforgettable meals―can a food writer find happiness with a man who has an empty refrigerator? Amanda Hesser's irresistible book is the tale of a romance where food is the source of discovery, discord, and delight―a story of universal desires: good food, great company, and a mate. At each stage of her courtship―from her first date with "Mr. Latte" (a near-disaster) to her first uneasy dinner at his parents' home, from intimate suppers in her Upper West Side apartment to his first attempt at cooking for her―Amanda supplies menus for the meals they share: more than one hundred well-balanced and well-seasoned recipes that will leave you satisfied yet wanting more. With warmth and honesty, Amanda shares her feasts and foibles, triumphs and near-misses, tense encounters and good times in the kitchen and beyond. Her humorous, sensuous tale leads us date by date, recipe by recipe, to a jubilant conclusion. 42 b/w illustrations

A smart, inspiring cookbook showing how to plan, shop, and cook for dinners (and lunches and desserts) all through the week. The secret? Cooking ahead. Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, founders of the online kitchen and home destination Food52, pull off home-cooked dinners with their families with stunning regularity. But they don't cook every night. Starting with flexible base dishes made on the weekend, Amanda and Merrill mix, match, and riff to create new dinners, lunches, and even desserts throughout the week. Blistered tomatoes are first served as a side, then become sauce for spaghetti with corn. Tuna, poached in olive oil on a Sunday, gets paired with braised peppers and romesco for a fiery dinner, with spicy mayo for a hearty sandwich, and with zucchini and couscous for a pack-and-go salad. Amanda and Merrill’s seasonal plans give you everything you need to set yourself up well for the week, with grocery lists and cooking timelines. They also share clever tips and tricks for more confident cooking, showing how elements can work across menus and seasons to fit your mood or market, and how to be scrappy with whatever’s left in the fridge. These building blocks form A New Way to Dinner, the key to smarter, happier cooking that leaves you with endless possibilities for the week ahead.

Food52 A New Way to Dinner: A Playbook of Recipes and Strategies for the Week Ahead [A Cookbook] (Food52 Works)

Cooking Methods

Ten Speed Press+

Cook in the Blank is the quick, easy way to cook everything from sheet-pan dinners to slow-cooker favorites with help from the pros at Food52. 20 fill-in-the-blank recipe templates spark creativity and nudge you out of ruts, paving the way for clever, easy-to-love meals that you can make your own, from chili to burgers to sheet-pan chicken. Take inspiration from whatever's in your pantry, whatever you're craving, or whatever your dining companions shout out to fill in each blank. These foolproof formulas will add up to happy bellies and lots of brand-new dinner ideas.

Food52 Cook in the Blank: The Fun, Freewheeling Game Plan That Takes You from Zero to Dinner: A Cookbook (Food52 Works)

Clarkson/Potter

A KCRW Top 10 Food Book of 2021 
A Minnesota Star Tribune Top 15 Cookbook of 2021 
A WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbook of 2021\nThe James Beard Award–winning and New York Times best-selling compendium of the paper’s best recipes, revised and updated. 
Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a-generation cookbook, former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an updated edition for a new wave of home cooks. She has added 120 new but instantly iconic dishes to her mother lode of more than a thousand recipes, including Samin Nosrat’s Sabzi Polo (Herbed Rice with Tahdig), Todd Richards’s Fried Catfish with Hot Sauce, and J. Kenji López-Alt’s Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin. Devoted Times subscribers as well as newcomers to the paper’s culinary trove will also find scores of timeless gems such as Purple Plum Torte, David Eyre’s Pancake, Pamela Sherrid’s Summer Pasta, and classics ranging from 1940s Caesar Salad to modern No-Knead Bread. Hesser has tested and adapted each of the recipes, and she highlights her go-to favorites with wit and warmth. As Saveur declared, this is a “tremendously appealing collection of recipes that tells the story of American cooking.” 50 photographs

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes of Record

An American cook takes on a job cooking for a French family at their chateau. By tradition the owners employ a gardener to keep them supplied with vegetables, fruit and herbs. This book is all about this gardener, his work and his produce and how the cook is gradually allowed to share in his knowledge.

The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside

Absolute Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hesser, Amanda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Hesser, Amanda

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Hesser, Amanda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Winning Recipes from Exceptional Home Cooks (Food52, 1)

The Food52 Cookbook, Volume 2: Seasonal Recipes from Our Kitchens to Yours (Food52, 2)

The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside

Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes

The Essential,Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes

Food52 A New Way to Dinner: A Playbook of Recipes and Strategies for the Week Ahead [A Cookbook] (Food52 Works)

Food52 Cook in the Blank: The Fun, Freewheeling Game Plan That Takes You from Zero to Dinner: A Cookbook (Food52 Works)

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes of Record

The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside