At SAVEUR, the cookbooks we cover never represent just one type of cuisine or country. In the scope of our 2024 Cookbook Club alone, we featured 12 brilliant volumes, taking us from Bangladesh to Venice, California, to the Caribbean to a pathbreaking collection of Salvadorean recipes. But beyond the Cookbook Club, there were many, many more books that we combed and cooked our way through this year, and in the titles featured here, there’s something for every home cook to savor. The state of the cookbook is alive and well: Publishers and readers are continuing to expand their scope of interest beyond what is easy or comfortable, and there’s something fresh to learn and appreciate in every title. Here are 30 of our most loved releases from 2024—we’re so grateful to their authors, and we hope you’ll have a chance to cook from each and every one of them.
Bright Cooking: Recipes for the Modern Palate
In her long-awaited debut book, acclaimed chef Camille Becerra offers up her take on what she calls “bright cooking”—a call to arms for intentional, sensorially aware, and engaged preparation, with ingredients sourced responsibly. The results are flavor-forward recipes that are easy to assemble yet overflowing with vitality, with unexpected pairings that show Becerra flexing her cheffy impulses in the home kitchen. When someone with Becerra’s gifts encourages you to put lavender salt-cured salmon on avocado toast, to
