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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
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Crystal Wilkinson
Anne M
, February 08, 2024
This is one of the most compelling memoirs I’ve read in a long time–part memory, part poetic story, part recipe collection (of course). The author, a former poet laureate of Kentucky, is an exquisite writer, and it’s easy to see why she’s won so many awards in her career. Whenever I pick the book up, thinking I’ll read just a little bit more, I find it difficult to put it down again. The recipes are accessible (and familiar to me, who grew up on the rural northern edge of Appalachia) and all enhanced by the stories the author weaves around them. I can’t recommend this book highly enough, and I can’t wait to cook my way through the entirety of its recipes. (Clarkson Potter provided me with a free copy of this book; the opinions are my own.)
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Simply West African
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Pierre Thiam, Lisa Katayama
Anne M
, October 04, 2023
Clarkson Potter consistently produces some of the best cookbooks highlighting world cuisines, and these books are not only beautifully photographed and well-written, they are also full of recipes that are very accessible to a home cook of any skill level, and with ingredients that are readily available. This gorgeous book, by a James Beard-nominated Senegalese chef and author, is another in this lineup. The recipes feel like comfort food at its nourishing best, both familiar and new, and the words that accompany them tell some great stories, as the best cookbooks nowadays do. Clarkson Potter provided me with a free copy of this book; the opinions are my own. My opinion is that you will both enjoy this book and use it extensively.
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Pie Is Messy: Recipes from the Pie Hole: A Baking Book
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Rebecca Grasley and Willy Blackmore
Anne M
, September 15, 2023
I do two quick scans of any new cookbook I get: the first to see what recipes I think I’ll want to make, and second to see what I could make with what I have on hand. The third time through is for the pleasure of the reading; this book scored high on all three passes. The recipe collection is divided between old school/new school, pre- and post-Pie Shop pies, and it was great fun to see recipes I remember from my own childhood–I grew up in the same area the author grew up, and there are several pies you just don’t find outside of northeastern Pennsylvania. If you haven’t had a lemon sponge pie, for instance, you’re going to want to try it. It’s also refreshing, in our age of just-so food photography, to find someone who knows that an imperfect piece of pie is still perfect. This is a really good book, and I highly recommend it. Ten Speed Press provided me with a free copy of this book; the opinions are my own.
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Damn Good Advice For People with Talent
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George Lois
Anne M
, September 26, 2012
Having identified myself per Mr. Lois's table as a type 2--very bright but lazy (a damn shame)--I went on to read the rest of this inspired little book and learned not only the personality behind some of the most icon ads I've seen over the decades,but also how to overcome the 'lazy' part of the equation and apply many of his insights to my own creative life and work. It's hard to decide which is the better part of this book: learning about Lois and his world, or discovering what he has to teach me about mine.
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