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Publisher's Weekly recently revealed the Top Ten Bestselling Cookbooks of 2012. You can find them all in our library collection!
1. Barefoot Contessa Foolproof. By Ina Garten.
2. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from my Frontier. By Ree Drummond.
3. In the Kitchen with David. By David Venable.
4. Eat More of What you Love. By Marlene Koch.
5. Great Food Fast. By Bob Warden.
6. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. By Deb Perelman.
7. The Chew: Food. Life. Fun. By Peter Kaminsky.
8. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl. By Ree Drummond.
9. Weeknights with Giada. By Giada de Laurentiis.
10. Hungry Girl to the Max. By Lisa Lillien.
Which cookbooks do some of our best known cookbook authors favor?
Mollie Katzen's favorite cookbooks are:
1. Honey from a Weed, Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. By Patience Gray.
2. The Vegetarian Epicure. By Anna Thomas.
3. Mediterranean Grains and Greens. By Paula Wolfert.
Ina Garten's favorite cookbooks are:
1. Summer on a Plate. By Anna Pump.
2. Nantucket Open House Cookbook. By Sarah Leah Chase.
3. Cold Weather Cooking. By Sarah Leah Chase.
4. Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook. By Kathleen King.
5. Baking for Friends. By Kathleen King.
6. Plenty. By Yotam Ottolenghi.
7. Jerusalem. By Yotam Ottolenghi.
Find out about new cookbooks in our collection via our LIFESTYLES bookletter. You can subscribe via e-mail here.
To locate books outside of our collection, go to the statewide catalog. You can request books via interlibrary loan
and the statewide catalog (iconn.org), if you are a Hamden resident.
See what is new in the 600's! We just updated our Lifestyles bookletter. This bookletter lists our brand new books in health, medicine, cooking, baking, etc. Click on the link to the online catalog for each title and you can place a hold, if a book is on order, in processing, or checked out. If the book happens to be checked in, you can call us at the info desk (203-287-2680) and we will put it aside for you. If you would like to receive this bookletter or others in your email every month, click on this link to subscribe.
