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SRC 2025: Read a Book with a Recipe from Another Culture

Enjoy the dishes and flavors from around the globe with TPL's cookbooks from around the world.

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  • Æbleskiver

    a New Take on Traditional Danish Pancakes

    Øvergaard, Pim Pauline,
    Historically, slices of apple were dipped in pancake batter and fried, explaining the origin of the name, aebleskiver, which literally means apple-slices. Æble = apple and skiver = slices. Today, æbleskiver means both the Danish pancake and the pan…
    Book, 2024Oakland : The Collective Book Studio, 2024. — 641.8153 OVERGAARD 2024
  • Presents the definitive collection of simple and authentic tapas recipes, showing how versatile and tasty tapas can be.
    Book, 2010New York, NY : Phaidon, 2010. — 641.812 OR83B 2010
  • A fully illustrated guide to intuitive cooking! This beginner-friendly cookbook includes a primer on tools, ingredients, and using your own five senses to make delicious food, as well as twenty vegetarian recipes from worldwide cuisines. Have you…
    eBook, 2023[United States] : Silver Sprocket, 2023. — eComic hoopla
  • Diasporican

    a Puerto Rican Cookbook

    Maisonet, Illyanna,
    Over 90 delicious, deeply personal recipes that tell the story of Puerto Rico's Stateside disapora from America's first Puerto Rican food columnist, award-winning writer Illyanna Maisonet.
    Book, 2022California : Ten Speed Press, [2022] — 641.597295 M2872D 2022
  • From a Polish Country House Kitchen

    90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food

    Applebaum, Anne, 1964-
    Collects ninety Polish recipes, including roasted winter vegetables, stewed beef rolls with kasha, pork lion stuffed with prunes, and fruit pierogi.
    Book, 2012San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2012] — 641.59438 AP523F 2012
  • Kitchens of Hope

    Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes From Home

    Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational home life. This collaboration is now a must-have cookbook blending the emotional intimacy…
    Book, 2025Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2025] — 641.592 KITCHENS 2025
  • Lidia's Commonsense Italian Cooking

    150 Delicious and Simple Recipes Everyone Can Master

    Bastianich, Lidia,
    For Lidia Bastianich, common sense is an essential tool when one steps into the kitchen. Her recipes are meant to be a guide, and will be better if you adapt them to your own taste. These recipes are the ones she truly enjoys cooking and serving,…
    Book, 2013New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. — 641.5945 B2964LC 2013
  • In Milk Street Noodles, the Milk Street team shines a spotlight on the world's most beloved noodle dishes, from spaghetti to pad see ew, from ramen to spaetzle. This collection of 125 weeknight-ready dishes offer up world of flavor in a bowl--with…
    Book, 2023New York : Voracious, Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 641.822 K561N 2023
  • In Modern German cookbook , the only German television chef with two Michelin stars, Frank Rosin, shares his secrets and puts a modern twist on 100 classic German recipes.
    Book, 2015New York : DK/Penguin Random House, 2015. — 641.5943 R731M 2015
  • 엄마

    Umma : a Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom & 100 Family Recipes

    Ahn, Sarah,
    Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational home life. This collaboration is now a must-have cookbook blending the emotional intimacy…
    Book, 2025Boston, MA : America's Test Kitchen, [2025] — 641.59519 AHN 2025
  • On the Curry Trail

    Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World : in 50 Recipes

    Iyer, Raghavan, 1961-2023,
    On the Curry Trail is an enlightening journey across Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to explore the origins of curry and the signature, essential curries of each region. This diaspora of curry brings alive not only the most iconic,…
    Book, 2023New York : Workman Publishing, [2023] — 641.3384 IY1O 2022
  • Ripe Figs

    Recipes and Stories From Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus

    Khan, Yasmin (Cook),
    The acclaimed author of Zaitoun returns with vibrant recipes and powerful stories from the islands that bridge the Mediterranean and the Middle East. For thousands of years, the eastern Mediterranean has stood as a meeting point between East and…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. — 641.591822 K5275R 2021
  • Seoul Food Korean Cookbook

    Korean Cooking From Kimchi and Bibimbap to Fried Chicken and Bingsoo

    Imatome-Yun, Naomi,
    Food writer Naomi Imatome-Yun grew up in the American suburbs helping her Korean grandmother cook Korean classics and has spent over 15 years helping Korean Americans and non-Korean Americans alike discover how easy and delectable authentic Korean…
    Book, 2015Berkeley, California : Rockridge Press, ©2015. — 641.59519 IM18S 2015
  • Setting a Place for Us

    Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community From Eight Countries Impacted by War

    Hassan, Hawa, 1982-
    An enthralling and intimate collection of essays and recipes that explores the history of eight countries to understand the impact of human conflict on a culture's cuisine and food system, from the James Beard Award-winning author of In Bibi's…
    Book, 2025California ; New York : Ten Speed, [2025] — 641.59 HASSAN 2025
  • South of Somewhere

    Recipes and Stories From My Life in South Africa, South Korea & the American South

    Gray, Dale,
    South of Somewhere is a unique culinary tour of beloved food blogger Dale Gray's life to date. Her journey goes way back to South Africa on the outskirts of Cape Town. Dale grew up with a close-knit family who has resided in her hometown for…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon Element, 2023. — 641.59 GRAY 2023
  • For beginner and budding chefs, this book has step-by-step directions, and introduction to the basic tools a young chef needs, information on how to stay safe in the kitchen, and outlines techniques ranging from knife skills to ingredient swaps to…
    Book, 2019California : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2019] — Y 641.59 AL534T 2019
  • Together

    Our Community Cookbook

    Together celebrates the power of cooking to connect us to one another. In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, a group of local women gathered together to cook fresh food for their families and neighbors. Over the chatter and aromas…
    Book, 2018New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2018. — 641.59 T572T 2018
  • West Winds

    Recipes, History, and Tales From Jamaica

    Phillips, Riaz,
    With 120 traditional and delicious dishes that draw on Riaz's personal memories, West Winds is so much more than a showcase of Jamaican cooking, it is also rooted in the exploration of the island's heritage and culture. Featuring colorful and…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2022. — 641.597292 P5463W 2022
  • Liberating the skillet from commonplace fare, the author shares what he's learned from his travels and from cooks in more than thirty-five countries through more than one hundred recipes that will transform and expand use of this versatile piece of…
    Book, 2022New York : Voracious, Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — 641.77 K561W 2022
  • From comedian and pasta enthusiast Matteo Lane come 30 recipes to up your pasta game (or at least help it suck a bit less-he's not a miracle worker).
    Book, 2025San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2025] — 641.822 LANE 2025