The Best Cookbooks of 2025

It's a cookbook bonanza!

• Celia Sack of Omnivore Books on Food shares a roundup of the year's best cookbooks, including graphic novel memoirs and one of the only Cambodian cookbooks written in English.

• Bee Wilson explores how quotidian kitchen items become powerful symbols, representing friendship, grief, love, superstition, safety, and even political resistance.

• Design curator and writer Corinne Mynatt became fascinated with culinary objects she found at flea markets and began researching their history and function.

• New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi follows a Haviland china set that has graced the table of five generations of women.

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