19 Upcoming Cookbooks We Can't Wait To Read In 2023

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Our bookshelf, like the rings under our eyes, grows heavier with every passing year. And with 2023 officially underway, we're already looking ahead at the next 12 months of food literature to take up residency beside our essential cookbook collection.

As with the best cookbooks of 2022, publishers continue to diversify their releases by broadening the scope of who gets to tell their stories and share their kitchen traditions. With books centered around Sub-Saharan, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, and so many more backgrounds of cooking, we're most excited to bring brand new (to us) spices, seasonings, and ingredients into our household this year.

Plus, 2023's release schedule sees follow-up books from big-time voices in the food community such as Alison Roman, Aaron Franklin, and Maria Pasquale. Though no year is impervious to food trends or viral Tik Tok crazes like last year's butter boards, we believe that the year we've all just entered to potentially be the most delicious yet and we can't wait to look back this December on all the tips and tricks we've taken in the past year.

So, we're giving everyone a sneak peek at the calendar year of cookbooks we're most excited to crack open. Though we're sure many more will crop up around springtime, there are already plenty coming that we can cook along with all the way through next New Year's Eve.

Keep your 2023 health goals without even noticing it by picking up Andrea Nguyen's slyly plant-based cookbook, "Ever-Green: Super Fresh Recipes Starring Plants from Land and Sea." Leaning on fresh ingredients and approaches from her Vietnamese upbringing, Nguyen paints realistic snacks and meals the average home cook can recreate at home without anxiety. Already a veteran cookbook author of a half dozen cookbooks, and a James Beard Award recipient (for writing on a single subject) her track record as one of America's leading Vietnamese cooking voices has Nguyen's latest primed for even more accolades. 

Flavorful recipes like Smokey-Tofu Nori Wontons and Oven-Fried Crispy Shitake Imperial Rolls are captured with crisp and naturalistic photography by Aubrie Pick. We're already prepared to fill our shopping cart with Vietnamese herbs, spices, noodles, and more for when Ngyuen's book premieres this spring. 

The second cookbook from a renowned dietitian and certified nurse, Maya Feller, looks like a stunning array of color and culture with recipes ranging from a Lebanese-inspired mezze spread to cajun gumbo. Far from appropriation, Feller seems to understand the difference between appreciating and utilizing techniques and ingredients from around the globe without stumbling into sticky field of coopting.  

In "Eating from our Roots," Feller introduces her ethos of clean cooking with sneakily satisfying recipes leaning into the most crave-able dishes from around the world. We can't think of a better, more realistic book to help us keep our 2023 nutrition goals in check, all while giving us an excuse to shop at our favorite international markets and load up on spices and seasonings in our cabinets and cupboards desperately need.

The mind behind London's Ikoyi, a restaurant revolving "around British seasonality" (according to their own website) brings its "spice-based cuisine" across the pond with their first cookbook, sharing the name of their acclaimed hot spot. 

In "Ikoyi," chef Jeremy Chan takes readers through a chapter-by-chapter analog of his tasting menu focussed mainly on sub-Saharan seasoning. Somewhat of a high-end cookbook, "Ikoyi" is set to sell for nearly double the retail price of the average hardcover cookbook at nearly $65. With 80 recipes populating this Phaidon release, Chan's book is nothing short of epic, and doubles as a stunning (and hefty) coffee table flipper. Not released until mid-April, we already can't wait to taste the dishes we've been drooling over via Instagram on our own (chipped) plates.

One of the most relatable and approachable cookbooks of 2023 has to be "Caught Snackin'" — a project born from a Tik Tok handle of the same name. With over 100 recipes that can be assembled in under 30 minutes, "Caught Snackin'" is the eye-popping, stoner companion Gen-Z didn't know it needed. 

As the phenomenon of viral, Tik Tok recipes have had a few years to hammer out a rhythm and even skyrocket a handful of accounts into notoriety, "Caught Snackin'" is certainly not the first volume we'll be seeing with roots on the social media app, but it's the first we've been actually excited to flip through. Not for the faint of heart, this indulgent book pairs well with bachelor parties, sleep-overs, and girls' trips; recipes like Dishwasher Gummy Bear Vodka and Giant Pan Cookie fill 250 pages of vibrantly shot, guilty-pleasure cooking. 

If there's a food item we bet we consume nearly every day of the year (or more), it's the ever-versatile egg. Taschen saw the potential in dedicating a tome (the book fills 288 pages) to the dual-colored wonders known as eggs and delivers an off-kilter cookbook for devotees of the little shelled gem. 

Both a traditional cookbook compiled of recipes, "The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes" also dives into the cultural relevance, and history behind the oval wonder while blessing our eyes with the most eclectic visual companions we've ever seen inside the pages of a cookbook. Borrowing egg-centric works from Frida Kahlo, Man Ray, and more, The Gourmand sets out to be a singular journey through the deceptively simple egg.

With the cutely titled "First, Cream the Butter and the Sugar," Master Chef Australia winner Emelia Jackson makes her debut as a cookbook author every teaspoon as impressive as her run on the hit television show. But unlike so many television cooks who break through, Jackson knows better than to lead with a book cover adorned with her face. 

"First, Cream the Butter and the Sugar" can stand in as a go-to baking bible with recipes for essential sweets like chocolate chip cookies, but also includes hard-level projects like choux pastries fit for Marie Antoinette. We know (and feel) how intensely stressful mounting new baking projects can be, but with Jackson as our guide, we hope to discover how gratifying they are too.

Homa Dashtaki, Founder of The White Moustache Yogurt Company, moves from beyond the yogurt jar and onto bookshelves with "Yogurt and Whey: Recipes from an Iranian Immigrant Life," her first venture into cookbooks. Like many 2023 cookbooks we've been able to sneak a peak at, "Yogurt and Whey" is a breezily depicted tether to its author's edible biography. 

Somehow Dashtaki stretches her expertise and passion for the cultured milk product into nearly 300 pages of recipes detailing the ancient art of yogurt making and yogurt-centric recipes such as rum cocktails and lemon meringue pie. Aesthetically a jump forward from her cutesy yogurt brand, here Dashtaki's visions of Iranian-American life breathe with hand-drawn illustrations and whimsical photographs.

Well, Claire Ptak's "Love is a Pink Cake" certainly takes the cake (pun wholeheartedly intended) for cookbook titles of the year. In her romantic ode to event-centric cakes, the London-based baker brings her tips and techniques from Violet Bakery (yes, the same Violet Bakery that created Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding cake) to mixing bowls and measuring cups in your very own home kitchen. 

Dazzlingly shot, the book captures Ptak's luxurious cakes in over 100 stunning photos; with "Love is a Pink Cake" she's sure to convert dozens of pie enthusiasts to team cake in no time. We're personally chomping at the bit to sift our way through recreating her strawberry-coconut meringue cake and her cream angel food cake — our toes are already curling.

Though "White Lotus" chose to focus on the shores of Sicily, we can't help to be more drawn to the rustic architecture and carbonara pasta of Rome. Centered on everyday trattorias the city dwellers depend on as opposed to fine dining hot spots awarded Michelin stars, "Eternal City" glimpses into the pasta and people that make Rome tick. 

Romantic without veering into whimsical, "Eternal City," both understands its reader's preconceived notions of the Italian city and expands them into a more personalized glimpse into the lively hub. With "Eternal City," author Maria Pasquale marks her third venture into cookbook authorship, and while her previous two volumes ("How to be Italian" and "I Heart Rome") whetted our appetite, "Eternal City" is the main course of her accomplishments thus far.