Stefin and Andrea are both voracious readers. Whether it’s a cookbook, food memoir, food and travel fiction, or just a regular book with some wonderful food writing, they’re talking about it on the show or in the Preheated Book Club.
Cookbooks
The Art of the Pie, Kate McDermott
King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion
In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy
French Acadian Cookbook (1955 edition)
Classic Home Desserts, Richard Sax
The Food Lab: Better Cooking Through Science, J. Kenji Lopez Alt
How to Bake Everything, Mark Bittman
Silver Palate, Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso
How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman
Matters of Taste, Nathalie Dupree
The Italian Baker, Melissa Forti
Sweet, Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh
The Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Cookbook (1959)
Smitten Kitchen Everyday, Deb Perlman
Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds
The Zodiac Cooks, Penny Thornton
Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well, Sam Sifton
Nigella Christmas
At My Table, Nigella Lawson
Modern Baking: Cakes, Cookies & Everything in Between, Donna Hay
Rose’s Baking Basics, Rose Levy Berenbaum
All About Cake, Christina Tosi
Sister Pie: The Recipes and Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit, Lisa Ludwinski
Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi
Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook, Dorie Greenspan
Comfort in an Instant, Melissa Clark
Sous Vide for Everyone, America’s Test Kitchen
Whiskey in a Teacup, Reese Witherspoon
Five Seasons of Cranberry, Better Homes & Gardens
Christmas Chronicles, Nigel Slater
Six Seasons, Joshua McFadden
The Flying Brownie: 100 Terrific Food Gifts for Friends and Loved Ones Far Away, Shirley Fan
The Cardamom Trail, Chetna Makan
Baking with Less Sugar, Joanne Chang
Cooking with Scraps, Lindsey Jean-Hard
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747), Hannah Glass
Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family, Priya Krishna
Simple Cake: All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake, Odette Williams
Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, Tarek Malouf
Gü Chocolate Cookbook
Scraps, Peels and Stems, Jill Lightner
Everyday Food (various titles in series), Martha Stewart
Bake Sale Cookbook, Sandra Lee
Good Housekeeping’s The Great Bake Sale Cookbook
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samrin Nosrat
Nigella Feast
When Pies Fly: Handmade Pastries from Strudels to Stromboli, Empanadas to Knishes, Cathy Barrow
Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile, Kim-Joy
Bigger Bolder Baking, Gemma Stafford
Midwest Made, Shauna Sever
Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule, Michelle Lopez
Martha Stewart’s Cookie Perfection: 100+ Recipes to Take Your Sweet Treats to the Next Level:A Baking Book
Bread, Toast, Crumbs, Alexandra Stafford
Cookbooks For Younger Bakers
Company’s Coming: Cooking for Kids, Jean Paré
Kids Cookbook: A Very Slightly Messy Manual, Klutz Press (1987)
American Girl Baking: Recipes for Cookies, Cupcakes, and More
Better Homes & Gardens Junior Cookbook
Basics to Brilliance, Donna Hay
In the French Kitchen with Kids, Mardi Michels
Memoirs
Spiced: A Pastry Chef’s True Story of Trial by Fire, Dalia Jurgensen
Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl
Stuffed, Patricia Volk
Born Round, Frank Bruni*
My Life in France, Julia Child
Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet, Lora Brody
The Gastronomical Me, M.F.K. Fisher
Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark) Chocolate, Amy Thomas
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg
Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage, Molly Wizenberg
Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah
At the Kitchen Table, Greg Atkinson
Save Me the Plums, Ruth Reichl
Risotto with Nettles, Anna del Conte*
Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin*
Fiction
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, Louise Miller
Kitchens of the Great Midwest,* J. Ryan Stradal
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
We Are All Made of Molecules, Susin Neilsen
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
Faithful, Alice Hoffman
44 Scotland Street, Alexander McCall Smith
The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld
Plumberry School of Comfort Food, Cathy Bramley
Stephanie Plum series (especially Two for the Dough), Janet Evanovich
Yesterday, Felicia Yap
The Lying Game, Ruth Ware
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Chocolate Lover’s Christmas, Carole Matthews
Winter Street (series), Erin Hildebrand
Sourdough, Robin Sloane*
Bread Alone, Judith Robin Hendricks
Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny
Greatest Hits, Laura Barnett
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
That Kind of Mother, Rumaan Alam
The Cake Therapist, Judith Fertig
The Cazalet Chronicles (series), Elizabeth Jane Howard
What Would Mary Berry Do?, Claire Sandy
Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler
The Lost Vintage, Ann Mah
Good Grief, Lolly Winston
The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
The One in a Million Boy, Monica Wood
Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
The Mitford Series, Jan Karon
The Maisie Dobbs Series, Jacqueline Winspear
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Cozy Mystery Series, Joanne Fluke
Delicious, Ruth Reichl
Other
The Four Tendencies, Gretchen Rubin
Bean to Bar Chocolate, Megan Giller
Magazines
Better Homes & Gardens
Southern Living
Sift
Good Housekeeping (US & UK)
Redbook
Real Simple
Chatelaine (Canada)
Everyday Food
*Preheated Book Club Pick