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On the Table: Bestselling Cookbooks of 2016

by Tracey T., January 13, 2017 2:11 PM

Goodbye 2016. I hope you didn’t let the door hit you on the way out. As difficult as many of us may have found the last year, it was a banner year for cookbooks. What can we learn from our food habits from the last year? From our top bestselling cookbooks, it looks like we want to eat local, eat healthier, and know more about how cooking works and how flavors develop together. Many of these cookbooks have a strong ethnic and comfort food component as well.

Hello 2017. Let’s all invite some friends and neighbors over for a casserole and side dish, maybe a pudding, and hunker down to see what this new year has in store for us. Best wishes and hopes for the new year.

Our 10 bestselling cookbooks of 2016:

1. Portland Farmers Market Cookbook: 100 Seasonal Recipes and Stories That Celebrate Local Food and People
by Ellen Jackson

Good Food, Great Medicine: A Mediterranean Diet & Lifestyle Guide

2. Good Food, Great Medicine: A Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Guide
by Miles and Mea Hassell

3. The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home
by Ken Forkish

Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking

4. Taste and Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking
by Naomi Pomeroy

5. Appetites: A Cookbook
by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever

6. The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom
by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig

7. Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
by Thug Kitchen

8. Run Fast. Eat Slow.
by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky

9. The Love and Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking
by Jeanine Donofrio

10. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

And because more is often better, here are another 10 to complete a top 20:

11. The Bob's Burgers Burger Book by Loren Bouchard and the Writers of Bob's Burgers
12. Around the Fire: Recipes for Inspired Grilling and Seasonal Feasting from Ox Restaurant by Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton
13. The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon
14. Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish
15. Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten
16. Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman
17. Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin
18. Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking by Dana Shultz
19. Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
20. Pok Pok by Andy Ricker and J. J. Goode

Books mentioned in this post

Cravings: Recipes for What You Want to Eat Chrissy Teigen	Bobs Burgers Burger Book Real Recipes for Joke Burgers Loren Bouchard, Cole Bowden	Love and Lemons Cookbook: An Apple to Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking Jeanine Donofrio
Good Food Great Medicine: A Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Guide Miles Hassell and Mea Hassell	Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi Yotam Ottolenghi	Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes, and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand Andy Ricker and Jj Goode and David Thompson
Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook Thug Kitchen, LLC	Around the Fire: Recipes for Inspired Grilling and Seasonal Feasting from Ox Restaurant Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton and Stacy Adimando	The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World Class Pies at Home Ken Forkish
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza Ken Forkish	Jerusalem A Cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi	Oh She Glows Cookbook Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out Angela Liddon
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science J. Kenji Lopez-Alt	The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom Melissa Hartwig Urban and Dallas Hartwig	Portland Farmers Market Cookbook: 100 Seasonal Recipes & Stories That Celebrate Local Food & People Ellen Jackson
Minimalist Bakers Everyday Cooking Dana Shultz	Run Fast. Eat Slow. Shalane Flanagan, Elyse Kopecky	Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking Naomi Pomeroy
Appetites: A Cookbook Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever	Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Ina Garten