The best cookbooks for spring 2024

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(Illustration by Yiting Nan / For the Times)

New cookbooks crop up like superblooms in spring, when the vitality of the season propels us to get into the kitchen. In the same way that each spring feels like life anew, every book is yet another way of looking at how we cook. (It’s why we keep adding books to all of our overflowing collections, right?)

This season we’re diving into the first Salvadoran cookbook released by a major publisher; the first book from the vegetable-loving chefs of Kismet; humanitarian chef José Andrés’ Greek, Lebanese and Turkish recipes; Joan Nathan’s latest food memoir; the unhinged culinary feats of the Mythical Kitchen; market-inspired Ni?oise cooking; and more.

You’ll want recipes for Nathan’s sticky buns, the creamy marinated feta with grapefruit and roasted tomatoes from Kismet, chilled yogurt soup garnished with cucumber and pistachio and barberries, Salvadoran chicken sandwiches dipped in recaudo … and we have them!

The SalviSoul Cookbook

THE RECIPES

Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes

THE RECIPES


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My Life in Recipes

THE RECIPES

Zaytinya

THE RECIPES

Rhett & Link Present: The Mythical Cookbook

THE RECIPES

Koshersoul

THE RECIPES

Ni?oise: Market-Inspired Cooking from France’s Sunniest City

THE RECIPE

The Crawl with Benny Blanco

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.