Let's Get Cooking!
Team Birdie is highlighting some of our favorite cookbooks to warm your spirits and your kitchen!
It’s getting chilly outside, and to celebrate getting cozy inside, Team Birdie is highlighting some of our favorite cookbooks to warm your spirits and your kitchen!
15 Minute Indian
By Anjula Devi
Recommended by Bailey
Warm, delicious Indian food is one of the keys to my heart and, in this book, Anjula Devi gives direction on quick, fresh approaches to classic Indian flavors and ingredients. Before she dives into recipes, she helpfully shares her most-used equipment (and sizes) and spices (and how to buy them affordably and in bulk). Then, we get into the recipes – there are no more than five spices used in each one and none should take longer than fifteen minutes to make (hence the title). She divvies them up by main ingredient: Legumes, Vegetables, Fish & Seafood, Paneer & Eggs and Potatoes, leaving sections at the end for sides, breads, chutneys, masalas, and more.
This is a very approachable book with delicious dishes to make any night of the week (I want to make them all!).
Great for: busy people who want to make nutritious food at home, vegetarian people who love Indian flavors (like me!), and — a less obvious audience — graphic design lovers (the colors and typography in this book are LUSH)
Pan Y Dulce
By Bryan Ford
Recommended by Bailey
I used to live in southwest Florida and I was spoiled for choice when it came to delicious Latin American food – I fell in love with guava pastries, arepas and tequeños (amongst countless other delicacies), and this book made my mouth water! In Pan Y Dulce, Bryan Ford serves recipes and ingredients with a side of cultural and historical context. He doesn’t shy away from talking about indigenous plants and people, colonialism, slavery, and the lasting influence of historical action within our lives and food today. He gives direcion on technique, weight conversions and how to adjust for climate, temperature and altitude before diving into his recipes. The food in this book spans across all of Latin America and covers a breadth of skill levels. The last chapter even includes gluten-free breads!
Great for: history-loving foodies, home bakers, and people who love Latin American food!
Good Soup: 52 Color Recipes for Year-Round Comfort
by Joris Bijdendijk
Recommended by Natalie
This cookbook is perfect for all the soup lovers out there. 52 recipes for each week of the year, and each one looks better than the last! Not only is the design of this book gorgeous, but you can also find tips on making and keeping different stocks on hand to keep the prep time down when you want to make one of the recipes!
Some recipes I haven’t stopped thinking about are the Beef and Vegetable Soup (can’t go wrong with a classic), and the Caldo Verde with Chorizo. I can’t wait to cozy up with a bowl of one of these and a good book!
Great for: The people who want to perfect the art of the soup and aren’t afraid of new flavors!