Our new favorite cookbooks of 2024 include chef-written books from the likes of Bobby Flay, Paola Velez, and Justine Doiron. They’ll inspire you in the kitchen this fall and throughout the year.
Recipes are like magic potions. They promise transformations,’ says Bee Wilson in her introduction to Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake (Faber, £12.99), a collection of classic authors’ recipes.
According to the New England Historical Society, the first recipe for American election cake appeared in 1796 in the first U.S. cookbook, Amelia Simmons’ “American Cookery.” Back then ...