Welcome to the Cookbook Gifts Issue! There's something for every appetite, from Asma Khan's Ammu: Indian Home-Cooking to Nourish Your Soul to Prue Leith's salute to her favorite comfort food, Bliss on Toast, to Ina Garten's lessons in going simple during the pandemic in Go-To Dinners to exquisite desserts, French-style, in Aleksandra Crapanzano's Gâteau! Plus a round-up of cookbooks to get kids in the kitchen, including celebrity chef Gaby Melian's family recipes in Gaby's Latin American Kitchen, and vegan recipes from the Caribbean British celebrity chef in Omari McQueen's Best Bites Cookbook.
The Writer's Life spotlights Michael W. Twitty, the man behind The Cooking Gene, as he discusses his research and recipes for Koshersoul, at the intersection of the American South and the Afro Caribbean and Jewish diasporas.