Sarah Tansley & Neal Wyatt

Cookbooks do more than help readers make good food; they can also evoke place and time, transporting readers across landscapes.

From bagels to liángbàn dòufu and from hand pies to moghrabiyeh the best cookbooks of 2022 offer delicious food alongside stories, history, and cultural journeys.

Take pleasure in the joy of making something nourishing and the comfort of convivial authorial company with these go-to cookbooks from the likes of Ina Garten and Edna Lewis.