Vernita Whitaker Naylor’s Nita’s Nibbles: Taste Your Base is both a cookbook and a personal journey that blends food, family, and sustainability. The book combines storytelling with recipes, offering readers more than just instructions for the kitchen. Whitaker bases her culinary philosophy on her father’s...

Greek by Osmosis: My Life on a Small Greek Island by Laura Aristidou Candris is a memoir that transports readers to the Cyclades through vivid detail and wry storytelling. Beginning with her marriage to Aris, a Greek national she met in Kentucky, Candris chronicles a...

Cooking with Adriana and Jim is a cookbook by Adriana Liberty. Both Jim and Adriana are owners of a Bed and Breakfast nestled in the mountains of Los Padres National Forest in California. Since they both have Italian roots, a portion of the recipes reflect...

Commi Kitchen by Cole Crocker is a raw, funny, and profoundly human novel about grief, ambition, and the unpredictable theater of the culinary world. Brand is a young chef with vision, drive, and wounds he has not yet begun to name. As he throws himself...

Give Me a Solid: Rediscovering Food and Joy When Chewing or Swallowing Proves Difficult by Joanne Brouard outlines her experience living with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD), detailing how she adapted her lifestyle and diet to manage dysphagia. She discusses strategies like posture adjustments, vocal cord...

Cooking with Judith: Comfort Foods Create WOW Eating by Judith Briles is an exciting cookbook full of tasty home meals and party dishes with detailed, step-by-step guides on how to make them using simple ingredients. Judith brings together a wide variety of easy recipes prepared...

In their book Yin & Yang 2.0: Nutrition for Dogs, authors Dr. Judy Morgan and Hue Grant advocate for home-cooked pet meals over commercial pet foods to prevent low-quality ingredients and potential health risks. They teach the benefits of whole food and raw diets, offering...

Memoir of a Misfit Chef: A Rise from the Ashes by Paul Alvero chronicles the author's journey from a self-proclaimed "misfit" in a small Minnesota town to a chef working in a Michelin-starred restaurant in Las Vegas. The narrative begins with his childhood marked by...

Stellar Recipes: Easy Recipes for Kids (by a Kid!) by Stella Lesage is a cookbook featuring over 40 simple, step-by-step recipes tailored for children to follow with minimal adult supervision. The book includes a variety of dishes, from main meals like sloppy joes, mini pizzas,...

Invent Your Recipe Italian Cookbook by Thomas Papia is based on Sicilian and Italian culinary traditions and Thomas’ passion for a cooking style reminiscent of his grandmother's. His approach is to invent, create, taste, and innovate. He gives you a basis to work from in...