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With picnics, barbecues, and backyard parties, summer seems made for cooking. Support patrons’ culinary plans with these tasty, wide-ranging suggestions.

Future selves will be so happy if they try out this tempting array of meal prep cookbooks.

Make great meals with these tempting picks.

Searching for display inspiration or looking to update your collection? Here are 54 enticing vegan cookbooks.

The restaurant cookbook is a classic subgenre. This menu of titles is designed to highlight recent restaurant cookbooks that include a true sense of place and impressive recipes. The books evoke memories of restaurant visits past with their beautiful photography, and also share their locale, as they center the communities that influenced them. Steeped in the inspiration that chef-authors used to open their restaurants and create signature recipes, these books will motivate readers to recreate wonderful meals in their home kitchens.

Addressing baking, making dinner, planning snacks, and more, these are the 20 titles library patrons are seeking.

The following curated list of memoirs and documentaries should appeal to budding cooks and culinary experts, as well as armchair travelers and globetrotters.

Erin Jeanne McDowell presents a thorough guide to all aspects of pie while Kate McDermott features original takes on classics. Meanwhile, Ken Haedrich offers a mix of classic and contemporary treats, and Lauren Ko debuts with a fun collection of pies as works of art.

These 32 recommended cooking titles offer tasty options for vegetarians, vegans, flexitarians, and anyone who wants to reduce their meat consumption or just loves good food.