Blissful Basil is a very nice vegan cookbook with a huge selection of good, mostly original recipes from breakfast through sandwiches to desserts and beverages. Ashley Melillo briefly shares her life story in the introduction and the health problems (physical and mental) that have driven her to be vegan to solve the difficulties.

This unusual cookbook, The Recipe Hacker Confidential, emphasizes healthy cooking and eating, but it seems author Diana Keuilian’s primary goal is your weight loss, as this is what she keeps repeating often. The cookbook is a departure from conventional cooking, as Keuilian’s first premise is a complete overhauling of your kitchen: discard all foods containing gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and refined sugar.

Like most of Cook’s Country cookbooks, One-Pan Wonders is unparalleled among the countless cookbooks that appear in an unending stream. A large collection of rather original recipes is presented in this volume, all with one thing in common: they use a single cooking vessel.

It is no easy task to cook for one, but this wonderful cookbook can make it both fun and doable. The introductory section tells one how to set up the kitchen and pantry to make the perfect working conditions for the single life. In addition, there is a list of great tips that will make it possible to cook for one without having failures or wasted ingredients or leftovers to eat for a week.

It isn’t often one buys a cookbook and ends up wanting to keep it on the coffee table with other beautiful art books, but this cookbook just might end up there. It is visually stunning, filled with spectacular photos by Martin Löf of the place and the food created there by author Helene Henderson. The writing is interesting, fun, and very conversational.

America’s Test Kitchen has created the definitive guide to Mediterranean cooking. Although brimming with amazing recipes, this cookbook has so much more. This book opens with a concise overview of the Mediterranean diet and meal planning.

I am going to start out by saying that if you love the show Firefly, you should definitely own this cookbook, whether you like to cook or not. The author did an amazing job being true to the show and every recipe is from a particular character and written as they would speak. Even the font is perfect.