The best baking cookbooks according to professional bakers
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Baking cookbooks can help you perfect your pie crust, sourdough bread, or chocolate chip cookies.
We tapped expert bakers Joanne Chang and Amber Croom to share their favorite baking books.
The books cover the basics as well as how to master French pastries and temper chocolate.
It s no secret baking is a science only the right ingredients interact properly to create chewy cookies, flaky pie crust, and airy cakes. Pastry chefs work hard to get those measurements right, and many pass on their knowledge in beautiful cookbooks. Those cookbooks help bakers learn the basics so that they can go on to create delightful desserts of their own. But which ones belong on your bookcase?
Our 10 favorite cookbooks in 2020
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Salade Blanche recipe from The French Laundry, Per Se by Thomas Keller.Deborah Jones / Deborah JonesShow MoreShow Less
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JW Chicken recipe from The Barbuto Cookbook by Jonathan Waxman.Jen Davidson / Jen DavidsonShow MoreShow Less
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Grilled Shrimp for Fajitas recipe from Houston s Tacos a Go Go from Serial Griller by Matt Moore.Andrea Behrends and Helene Dujardin / Andrea Behrends and Helen DujardinShow MoreShow Less
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Cover: Xi an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou.Abrams / AbramsShow MoreShow Less
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Dry Pot chicken recipe from Xi an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou.Jenny Huang / Jenny HuangShow MoreShow Less
The Best 2020 Cookbooks to Give, Recommended by Cookbook Authors
Nine cookbooks to give as gifts this year, from the Strategist Dec 10, 2020, 3:51pm EST
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This year, many of us have become the home cooks we never thought we could be (whether by choice or by necessity). Keep that enthusiasm going into 2021 with some fresh culinary inspiration; because while the pandemic derailed many things, the release of excellent new cookbooks was not one of them. To find the latest releases worth giving, from instant classics on the art of baking to one of the year’s most moving cooking memoirs, we asked our favorite cookbook authors to recommend a new cookbook they’d give as a gift and then we asked the authors of those books for