The 16 Best New Cookbooks of 2025 – Bon Appétit

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Our Favorite New Cookbooks of 2025

According to editors, cookbook authors, and chefs.

By The Bon Appétit and Epicurious Staffs and Contributors

December 2, 2025

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This year was a banner year for cookbooks. These new titles? They helped us get dinner on the table in so many ways. Books for those willing to explore the wonders waiting in their pantry or those who want to wander around other countries for inspiration. Books that celebrate vegetarian cooking, baked goods, and “good things.” There were deep dives into diasporic Pakistani, Ghanaian, Middle Eastern, and Latinx cuisine. With so many excellent titles, how does one go about chronicling the best? By enlisting a group of tastemakers to evaluate and select their favorites. Of course, we barely scratched the surface of all the excellent titles published this year. Luckily, we’ve covered plenty over the past year: peruse our spring, summer, and fall callouts. To round up 2025’s best cookbooks, we consulted a large group: Bon Appétit and Epicurious staffers, as well as other food writers and editors, cookbook authors, and chefs.

While a great cookbook is, as one might assume, a collection of stellar recipes, it should also be enjoyable to read without immediate plans to cook. And wow, do these books deliver on that. Without truly reading these books, we might not have discovered that you don’t need to soften butter for a cohesive cookie dough (Nicole Rucker’s Fat + Flour taught us this); or that an author’s daughter is responsible for curating the playlists peppered throughout the recipe pages (that’s in Hetty Lui McKinnon’s Linger); or that fonio, a grain indigenous to West Africa, is likely the oldest cereal grain on the continent, but remained mostly unknown to Americans until just recently (shared by Eric Adjepong in Ghana to the World).

Read on for 16 books that delighted us in 2025, ordered alphabetically by title. Which will you add to your library?

Boustany by Sami Tamimi

I was drawn to chef Sami Tamimi’s first solo cookbook, Boustany, because of its subtitle: A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine. Hoping for inspiration for meat-free home cooking, I was not disappointed. The longtime Ottolenghi collaborator centers fresh produce on every page, with vibrant recipes that look exactly like what I want to eat right now (and always, if I’m honest). Colorful salads, robust dips, and a medley of grains and beans fill out chapters on breakfast, weeknight dinners, and special occasions, punctuated by pictures of Tamimi’s boustany—Arabic for “my garden.” I immediately made the Two-Lentil Mejadra, which features an onion salsa with gently roasted onion petals that I know I’ll be coming back to as a topping for other dishes. The bread section is going to see more of me (four words: Fenugreek & Onion Buns), and the fruity desserts, like Tahini Rice Pudding With Grape Compote, all have Post-it notes on their pages. But aside from the recipes, Boustany is also a beautiful ode to Tamimi’s home country, honoring the work Palestinians have done to preserve a culinary heritage rooted in farming and foraging in the face of overwhelming adversity. Showcasing this food culture is not a task he takes lightly; as Tamimi writes: “The responsibility of writing these recipes and stories has weighed heavily on my shoulders. I hope and wish that many of you try the recipes, read the stories, and want to know more about Palestine…this wonderful place I call home.” —Kendra Vaculin, former test kitchen editor

Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine

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Pan-Fried Turmeric Bread (Kubez Kimaaj)

Kubez bread, a.k.a. kimaaj, is an Arabic flatbread or pita bread. It’s a staple in the Middle East used as an accompaniment for various dishes or as a wrap.

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Crushed Lentils With Tahini & Soft-Boiled Eggs (Adas Medames)

Garlic and chile are what really make this das medames sing, while hearty cumin, fresh cilantro, tomato, and tahini pile on layers of flavors.

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