As Good Food’s Gillian Ferguson says, the holiday season is the equivalent of Oscar-frenzy in the foodie world because of the “avalanche” of cookbooks that pile up on her desk like fresh a fresh layer of snow each winter (if it actually snowed in L.A.).
So to help you out with some of your holiday shopping, we’ve created a list of some of the best cookbooks and food-related literature from this year for the many characters in your life.
For the die-hard Angeleno…L.A. Son by Roy Choi
For the caffeine addict… Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White
For the beginner chef.. How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
For the more advanced home cook…A.O.C. Cookbook by Suzanne Goin
For the wine novice…The Essential Scratch & Sniff Wine Guide by Richard Betts
For the wine snob… The New California Wine by Jon Bonne
For the vegetarian (or veggie-lover!)… Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison
For the celiac in your life… Gluten-Free Girl Every Day by Shauna James Ahern
For Ottolenghi junkies…Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolengi and Sami Tamimi
For the not squeamish… Gulp by Mary Roach
For the pie lover…The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen
For the history buff…Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen
For the memoir lover…Poor Man’s Feast by Elissa Altman
For the muckraker… Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat
For the cocktail geek…The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
For the forager… Cooking with Flowers by Miche Bacher
For the sweet tooth…Sweet by Valerie Gordon