Cuisine

Cuisine (pronounced "quizeen") (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions,often associated with a specific culture. Cuisines are often named after the geographic areas or regions from which they originate. ...more

So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating
Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes To Repeat
Ulysse & Cyrano
Jane Austen's Table: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen (Literary Cookbooks)
Sift: The Elements of Great Baking
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet
Simply Japanese: 100 Authentic Recipes for Easy Home Cooking
Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More
Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook]
Brutto: A (Simple) Florentine Cookbook
That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week
Portugal: The Cookbook
The Flavor Thesaurus: More Flavors—Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes, and Ideas for Cooks
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Jerusalem: A Cookbook
Joy of Cooking
Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi
Plenty
Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine (Let's Eat Series, 2)
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
My Life in France
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Three Times a Day
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation
Vegan
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelBabette’s Feast by Isak DinesenCinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli BrownChocolat by Joanne HarrisThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Foodie Historical Fiction
50 books — 39 voters
From My Mexican Kitchen by Diana KennedyThe Mexican Home Kitchen by Mely MartinezThe Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana KennedyYucatán by David SterlingPati's Mexican Table by Pati Jinich
Best Mexican Cookbooks
56 books — 16 voters

So Easy So Good by Kylie SakaidaSuper-Italian by Giada De LaurentiisBuns by Louise HurstThere’s Always Room at the Table by Kaleb WyseShred Happens by Arash Hashemi
Cookbooks of 2025 (NON-FICTION)
74 books — 3 voters
Palestine on a Plate by Joudie KallaBaladi by Joudie KallaFalastin by Sami TamimiCraving Palestine Cookbook by Lama BazzariDine in Palestine by Heifa Odeh
Best Palestinian Cookbooks
17 books — 5 voters

Pleyn Delit by Sharon ButlerThe Medieval Kitchen by Odile RedonCookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by ApiciusThe Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. WalkerMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
Historical Cookery
319 books — 81 voters


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The flavors and food of the Baltics, generally reasonably priced and rich with variety and imagination, can often rival Nordic cuisine (which influences it), yet it is not held in the same esteem. I can still taste the sea buckthorn cheesecake I ate in Klaipėda-- the whole berries set in jelly on top, their sharpness slicing through the full-fat cream cheese-- and the snow-white fillets of pike perch, caught in Pärnu Bay, baked with butter and capers. The exceptional farmstead dairy produce-- in ...more
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