The Best Cookbooks of 2025
Plus: Scouring flea markets for vintage kitchen objects, the long life of one china set, and how kitchen items hold our emotions.
Good Food · KCRW
November 28, 202559m 45s
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Show Notes
<p dir="ltr">It's a cookbook bonanza!</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/omnivorebooks/">Celia Sack</a> of <a href="https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/">Omnivore Books on Food</a> shares a roundup of the year's best cookbooks, including graphic novel memoirs and one of the only Cambodian cookbooks written in English.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.beewilson.com/book/the-heart-shaped-tin">Bee Wilson</a> explores how quotidian kitchen items become powerful symbols, representing friendship, grief, love, superstition, safety, and even political resistance.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Design curator and writer <a href="https://corinnemynatt.com/">Corinne Mynatt</a> became fascinated with culinary objects she found at flea markets and began researching their history and function.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">New York Times reporter <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/rukmini-callimachi">Rukmini Callimachi</a> follows a Haviland china set that has graced the table of five generations of women.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Connect with Good Food host <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kcrwevan/?hl=en">Evan Kleiman</a> on <a href="https://kcrwgoodfood.substack.com/">Substack</a>.</p>
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