Our reviews
57 cooking & food books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
57 reviews match
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Best for: Dedicated fans of A Song of Ice and Fire or Game of Thrones who want to cook their way through the fictional world's food culture, and collectors who value an officially sanctioned volume bearing George R. R. Martin's foreword and the Random House Worlds imprint.
Ina Garten
Best for: Home cooks who already have some kitchen confidence and want a mentor-like system for hosting — specifically those who've felt the anxiety of timing multiple dishes at once and want embedded troubleshooting and make-ahead strategies built into every recipe.
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
Best for: Devoted Bourdain fans and home cooks who want an opinionated, personality-driven core repertoire built from forty-plus years of professional cooking and global travel — and who are comfortable with a voice that is frank, profane, and unapologetically partial.
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Best for: Elder Scrolls fans who want to extend their connection to Tamriel into the kitchen — whether cooking for themselves, hosting a themed game night, or giving a gift to a fellow franchise devotee.
Samin Nosrat
Best for: Home cooks at any level — from complete beginners to confident kitchen regulars — who want to understand the principles behind why food tastes good rather than simply accumulate more recipes to follow.
Kylie Sakaida
Best for: Home cooks who want a registered dietitian's evidence-based nutrition guidance delivered in plain, social-media-friendly language alongside a globally inflected recipe collection spanning everyday breakfasts to weeknight dinners and desserts.
Michael Greger
Best for: Chronic dieters who have cycled through trending approaches without lasting results and want a rigorous, evidence-based explanation of why those approaches fail — and what the science actually supports instead.
T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
Best for: Readers already curious about or committed to whole-food, plant-based eating who want a thorough, epidemiologically grounded argument — complete with mechanistic reasoning and a critique of reductionist nutrition science — for eliminating animal products from their diet.
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Best for: WoW players who also cook — or want a reason to start — and who want to bring recognisable Azeroth dishes and brews into their own kitchen, with the book doubling as a lore-faithful collectible for dedicated franchise fans.
