Best cookbooks of 2022 Los Angeles Times

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• Friends & Following
• Delectable: Sweet & Savory Baking
• More books from this author: Kathleen Grissom
• Cooking With Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover’s Guide to the World’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients
• The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food

Throughout their marriage, Marshall consistently rapes one of the slaves, fathering two children. In March 1954, Clarence “Buck” Stahl and Carlotta May Gates drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and got married in a chapel. They each worked in aviation (Buck in sales, Carlotta as a receptionist), had previous marriages, and were strapping, tall, and extremely good looking—California Apollonians out of central casting. Back home in L.A., as the newlyweds pondered their future, they became preoccupied with a promontory of land jutting out like the prow of a ship from Woods Drive in the Hollywood Hills, about 125 feet above Sunset Boulevard. It was as conspicuous as it was forbidding, visible from the couple’s house on nearby Hillside Avenue. “This lot was in pure view—every morning, every night,” Carlotta Stahl recalled.

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A spoonful of instant oatmeal adds moisture to her recipe for Swedish meatballs that are the best I’ve ever tried. And her recipe for cardamom coffee buns in “Fresh Midwest” is inspired, taking the traditional Swedish breakfast pastry and adding coffee to the dough and filling to both enhance and help ground the heady floral aroma of the cardamom. Her perspective is fresh and approachable, while still keeping the nostalgia of her family’s recipes intact. Looking back at our favorite cookbooks of the year, their depth and scope is impressive. Among the authors are chefs, home cooks, photographers, bloggers and other storytellers.

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Se’uda shlishit (the third meal of the day) might feature a crispy eggplant and goat cheese tart or roasted kohlrabi, cherry tomato and feta salad. Perhaps apricot tahini shortbread bars, pistachio frangipane and blood orange galette or frozen mango and pomegranate pops. In “Southern Cooking, Global Flavors,” Kenny Gilbert, a personal chef for Oprah Winfrey, shares Southern recipes from his Midwest and Southern upbringing as well as what he’s gleaned from cooking in kitchens around the world. In over 100 recipes, Gilbert builds on Southern staples like fried chicken and biscuits, offering a Korean-inspired version with gochujang and an Italian take that adds garlic, basil and Asiago cheese to the biscuit.

Delectable: Sweet & Savory Baking

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Pyke’s illegitimate daughter Belle, chief cook (and alternate narrator with Lavinia), takes reluctant charge of the little white girl. Belle and the other house slaves, including Mama Mae and Papa George, their son Ben, grizzled Uncle Jacob and youngsters Beattie and Fanny, soon embrace Lavinia as their own. Pyke’s wife Martha sinks deeper into laudanum addiction during the captain’s long absences. Brutal, drunken overseer Rankin starves and beats the field slaves. The Pykes’ 11-year-old son Marshall “accidentally” causes his young sister Sally’s death, and Ben is horribly mutilated by Rankin.

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I imagine the name of the book is a play on McClenny’s popular Buzzfeed Tasty series, “Make it Fancy,” where millions of viewers watch her turn Takis, Costco chicken and candy into gourmet meals. This book is just as creative, and possibly even more fun. Andrea Nguyen’s desire to eat more meals that star plants, in a flexible, flavor-charged way, resonates loudly. Through the lens of Vietnamese food and flavors, it’s especially compelling. All of my recent homemade dinners have improved tenfold from a single section in the book on pantry secrets. There’s a jar of her pickled mustard greens in my fridge as I type this.

More books from this author: Kathleen Grissom

Brooklyn restaurant Win Son and its sibling bakery specialize in both Taiwanese American classics and dishes that celebrate the diaspora with a playful bent. Sesame-laced Caesar salad, bacon-egg-and-cheese-stuffed scallion pancakes, and bolo bao fried chicken sandwiches hit the table alongside traditional beef noodles, corn soups and stir-fries. Chef-owners Josh Ku and Trigg Brown, with food writer Cathy Erway, intersperse all of these recipes and more with dialogues and musings on Taiwanese (American) identity, history and favorite dishes for a cookbook that’s just as educational as it is fun. And with persimmons now in season, you’d better believe I’m keeping the garlicky persimmon hot sauce — along with pages of their other condiment recipes — in heavy rotation. Leah Koenig’s seventh cookbook, “Portico,” is her deep dive into the Jewish cuisine of Rome. Beautiful photographs and vignettes of Rome’s Jewish history, culinary personalities and accomplished home cooks are interspersed among recipes that reflect the foodways of Rome’s Jewish community past and present.

Cooking With Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover’s Guide to the World’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients

There’s a patty melt made with beet patties that I’ll be whipping up all winter. But my favorite, and arguably the most useful section of the book, is called Bottom of the Bag, Box & Bottle, devoted to crumbs, grounds, and other last drops of items in your pantry. I made Thiessen’s cheese cracker-fried chicken sandwich out of the remnants of four bags of chips and it was glorious. With vibrant portraits and profiles, Klancy Miller celebrates the legacy of Black women in food, including chefs, activists, documentarians, restaurateurs, writers and more. Miller even uplifts the memories of culinary titans like Lena Chase and Barbara Elaine Smith (B. Smith) with loving tributes that affirm their impact on how we eat food today. The recipes are just as heartfelt, like farmer Leah Penniman’s soup Joumou, which is traditionally eaten every New Year on Haitian Independence Day, and a summer cocktail from the owners of Crown Heights bar Ode to Babel, Marva and Myriam Babel.

A compelling, powerful and poignant coming-of-age story about the fragility of family, and where love and loyalty prevail. Red-hot romances, poolside fiction, and blockbuster picks, oh my! We’re located in Historic Filipinotown near Echo Park, Silver Lake and downtown Los Angeles.

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However, when James marries Martha, he moves Belle to the kitchen house to become a slave so that Martha won’t be aware of the girl’s kinship to her husband. James still favors Belle, and Martha and their son, Marshall, assume that Belle is James’s mistress. James eventually offers Belle her freedom, but Belle rejects it, choosing to stay close to her home and the fellow slave that she loves, Ben. Ben marries another slave, but he and Belle have an ongoing affair. When the novel begins, Lavinia is a little girl whose parents are attempting to come to America, but they die aboard James’s ship.

I give it 13 out of 10 potato-chip-topped fried bologna sandwiches. Lavinia tells the authorities it was she who killed Marshall. She is sent tojail but soon acquitted with the help of Mr. Madden, who is a lawyer. Mr.Madden also lends her money to fund a small farm at Tall Oaks, and Laviniajoyously plans to bring her family with her. They all live together at TallOaks and when Belle eventually passes away, she is buried next to herfather.

Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk. Hunter’s debut novel tracks the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust. Four Chicago sisters anchor a sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt.

Because Lavinia’s parents are unable to pay their fare, James takes Lavinia back to his plantation and puts her in the “kitchen house,” or servant’s quarters for house slaves, as an indentured servant. (James sells Lavinia’s brother into servitude to a blacksmith, and he dies soon after.) At Tall Oaks, Belle oversees Lavinia, and the two eventually form an unbreakable bond. One of Jenny’s favorite books is “Breast and Eggs” by Meiko Kawakami, a novel translated from Japanese that sheds light on femininity through female relationships and a woman’s relationship to her own body. She just finished reading Han Kang’s novel “Greek Lessons ,” her follow-up to “The Vegetarian,” a thought-provoking thriller about how one woman’s choice to stop eating meat changes the course of her life and the lives around her. Nancy Silverton is a force of nature, bringing maximum imagination and exacting technique to anything she cooks or bakes.

Other favorites that get reinterpreted across different cuisines include burgers and fries, oxtail and rice and cakes and pies. Perhaps the most ingenious facet of this sequel — and one so useful it’s a marvel it isn’t included in all books linked to ample online content — is the addition of QR codes at the corner of every recipe. With the simple opening of your phone’s camera you’ll be taken to the recipe’s corresponding “Pasta Grannies” episode on Youtube, the method laid out in video form, the nonne come to life. It’s a true marvel these methods and recipes are preserved, and with Bennison’s latest cookbook, she makes accessing, visualizing and knowing these Italian grannies and their kitchen secrets all the more effortless. The “salt larder” section of her book, with simple recipes for things like Acadian salted scallions, salted shiso leaves and spiced green mango pickle will give any level of cook a whole new set of go-to flavorings to wake up even the most basic weeknight supper.

Currently our most popular title is “Everything Now” by Rosecrans Baldwin. We call it the “gateway drug” to Los Angeles literature. It’s a great book for transplants and native Angelenos to better understand Los Angeles through its history, its artists and its authors. African American contributions to mixology are too often overlooked, says Toni Tipton-Martin, and her book “Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs & Juice” operates as a way to remedy that. Tipton-Martin focuses on Black traditions in imbibing going back centuries, to African fermentation practices. You’ll find versions of recognizable favorites like Manhattans, Sidecars and mint juleps as well as drinks you might be unfamiliar with, like something called a Beet-A-Rita, from chef Hoover Alexander’s restaurant Hoover’s Cooking in Austin.

Just like at the restaurant, you adjust the heat and fillings to your liking. Using her many thorough tips and the recipe for the combination soon tofu, I was able to recreate the magic of my first visit to her restaurant through the pages of “Sohn-Mat.” — J.H. A few years ago, a friend asked what’s my favorite restaurant in New York City, and with little hesitation, I answered. “Oh,” he said, “you mean every food writer’s favorite restaurant? ” It’s unoriginal to fall so deeply in love with Via Carota, but it can’t be helped.