Our reviews
80 cooking & food books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
80 reviews
Better Homes and Gardens
Best for: Home cooks who want a single, wide-ranging reference covering everyday meals, baking, entertaining, and preservation — especially those who value quick navigation through at-a-glance icons and front-loaded chapter guides rather than deep exploration of any one cuisine.
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.
Timothy Ferriss
Best for: Self-directed experimenters and biohacking enthusiasts — particularly fans of Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek — who are comfortable treating their own bodies as data sources and want a single-volume reference spanning fat loss, exercise, sleep, skill acquisition, and sexual performance organized around the "minimum input, maximum output" philosophy.
Michael Greger and Gene Stone
Best for: Readers of Michael Greger's How Not to Die who want a structured, science-backed recipe companion to put its whole-food, plant-based dietary recommendations into daily practice.
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.
Michael Moss
Best for: Readers drawn to corporate accountability journalism and public health — particularly those who want a rigorously sourced, named-source investigation into how Kraft, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and their peers deliberately engineered processed food to override human self-regulation.
