Korea’s food scene is easily one of the best worldwide, with foods that feature local favourites and a twist on dishes worldwide.

Their recipes emphasise fresh ingredients with many vegetables, meats, and broths. 

The Best Korean Cookbooks for Korean Home Cooking

Below, you’ll find Korean cookbooks that share delicious recipes with mouthwatering photos. Some are simple, while others are bold or a mix of the two.

Enjoy creating side dishes, traditional entrees, snacks, desserts, and more, all from these amazing Korean cookbooks.

Judy Joo’s Korean Soul Food: Authentic dishes and modern twists

Judy Joo’s Korean Soul Food is a Korean recipe book that’s filled with authentic comfort food. Chef Judy Joo incorporates her own heritage and international experiences with various recipes and something for everyone.

This cookbook shares over 100 recipes, beautiful photography, helpful glossaries, and how-to tips. It’s great for amateur home cooks and accomplished chefs.

With Judy Joo’s Korean Soul Food book, you can prepare a mix of Korean snacks, meals, street food, and desserts.

Best of all, she helps you master the basics of preparing and cooking Korean foods before sharing her most special recipes.

Maangchi’s Big Book Of Korean Cooking: From Everyday Meals to Celebration Cuisine

If you’re looking for the best Korean cookbook that has it all, Maangchi’s Big Book Of Korean Cooking: From Everyday Meals to Celebration Cuisine is it.

This expansive book has been recognized and awarded by Forbes, Amazon, and The New York Times. 

Not only does author and Youtuber Maangchi share her favourite dishes, but she also covers interesting topics such as vegan cuisine of Buddhist mountains temples and Korean street vendors.

You can also find hundreds of helpful photos which show specific ingredients, step-by-step techniques, and striking close-up photos of prepared dishes.

Maangchi’s Big Book Of Korean Cooking shares various Korean recipes for any occasion. Learn how to prepare party food, including baby back ribs and homemade clear rice liquor.

The book also teaches you to make soups, hotpots, diverse kimchis, and more.

The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen

It’s no surprise that The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen was named one of the best new cookbooks of the year by Epicurious.

Although Korean cuisine can be meat-centric, this inspiring Korean vegetarian cookbook shows us that it doesn’t have to be.

This amazing Korean vegan cookbook shares powerful stories of love, family, and food by author Joanne Lee Molinaro aka “The Korean Vegan.”

It’s a collection of traditional and reimagined Korean dishes, including a potato and leek soup, a delicious and quick and crispy garlic tofu, a Korean-Chinese black bean noodle, a plant-based power bowl, and much more. 

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Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home

Korean American Eric Kim has compiled his favourite recipes to create Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home. This is one of the best Korean cookbooks if you appreciate good stories, too. 

In Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, you can discover how to make various dishes from Caramelized-Kimchi Baked Potatoes to Cheeseburger Kimbap.

And, if you like sweet treats, you’ll appreciate the Gochujang Chocolate Lava Cake.

Eric also shares authentic and playful stories about leaving and returning back home, family holiday traditions, and how he grew into the person he is today.

Korean Instant Pot Cookbook: Classic and Modern Korean Recipes for Everyday Home Cooking

Are you looking to make tasty Korean recipes with ease? Korean Instant Pot Cookbook: Classic and Modern Korean Recipes for Everyday Home Cooking is the Korean recipe book for you! 

Recipe developers Nancy Cho and Selina Lee learned their cooking skills from their mothers and grandmothers.

After exploring their Korean heritage, family experiences, and special dishes, they put together almost a hundred recipes in this book.

We love this one because it’s filled with steps to make quick weeknight meals, simple late-night snacks, and even more fancy dishes.

Learn to make traditional cuisine, including Jjajangmyeon (Black Bean Sauce Noodles), contemporary fusion like Budae Jjigae (Korean Army Stew), and much more.

Eat Korean: Our home cooking and street food

Eat Korean: Our home cooking and street food is possibly the best Korean cookbook if you’re looking to tie Korean cuisine with Western flavours.

Authors Gareth and Da-Hae West use their backgrounds to teach you how to prepare some of the most mouthwatering food.

The book discusses Korean cooking basics, such as popular sauces and Korean BBQ etiquette.

It also gives you the details for preparing sticky spare ribs, Panjeon (seafood pancakes), Bulgogi burgers, and other modern Korean dishes.

The Kimchi Cookbook: 60 Traditional and Modern Ways to Make and Eat Kimchi

Kimchi is a South Korean cultural staple, and The Kimchi Cookbook: 60 Traditional and Modern Ways to Make and Eat Kimchi tells you all about it.

Check out 60 recipes and tips to prepare and cook with kimchi. 

We love this colourful cookbook that tells you exactly how to make various kimchis, from bold to lighter flavours.

From a spicy winter Kimchi to a simple summer Kimchi and Kimchi side dishes, you’ll likely find this to be your go-to dish to wow family and friends.

Our Korean Kitchen

In their Korean recipe book, Our Korean Kitchen, Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo share a cultural history.

Discover over 100 authentic and easy-to-make recipes with ingredients and techniques you need to master them.

Learn how to stock your Korean pantry, get complete menu ideas, and discover ways to make an assortment of meals and snacks. 

Our Korean Kitchen is sorted by chapters of foods, including soups & stews, noodles, fish, meat, dessert, and a few more.

Learn to prepare recipes from Kimchi Fried Rice and Chicken Dumpling Soup to Shrimp and Sweet Potato Tempura to Deep Fried Honey Cookies.

Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes [A Cookbook]

New York Best Times Seller Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes [A Cookbook] is easy to use and fun to look at. Unlike other Korean cookbooks, this one is written in a graphic novel style.

In it, you’ll find 64 recipes with ingredient profiles shared through light-hearted comics.

Each quirky comic illustrates every step and ingredient you need to create delicious Korean dishes. Beginners and skilled cooks can learn to make various recipes, including kimchi, soy garlic beef over rice, seaweed rice rolls, and more.

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BTS Cookbook: Authentic Korean Dishes Members of the World’s Biggest Boyband Adore

If you’re a fan of k-pop superstar group BTS, the BTS Cookbook: Authentic Korean Dishes Members of the World’s Biggest Boyband Adore is just for you.

This makes for a perfect gift for the BTS fan in your life, too. 

The BTS Cookbook is filled with Korean recipes loved and prepared by BTS members. Alongside detailed instructions for each meal, you’ll find stunning photos of Korean dishes. 

MODERN KOREAN COOKING: Simple and Delicious Step-by-Step Recipes for Complete Beginners

MODERN KOREAN COOKING: Simple and Delicious Step-by-Step Recipes for Complete Beginners isn’t just your typical cookbook.

This Korean recipe book shares almost 2 dozen recipes with detailed directions for each meal and excellent photos.

Best of all, the ingredients in Modern Korean Cooking are healthy, delicious, and easily found outside of Korea.

Youna Shin is an art curator and food and nutrition writer born and raised in Seoul. This book reveals her passion for Korean food writing and a desire to share healthy, authentic Korean cuisine with Korean expats and non-Koreans.

Beginners and pro chefs can easily follow the appetizing recipes in this book. Learn to prepare and make traditional Korean entrees, soups, and side dishes.

Korean Bbq: Master Your Grill in Seven Sauces [A Cookbook]

If you appreciate grilling, you’ll love Korean BBQ: Master Your Grill in Seven Sauces [A Cookbook].

This is one of the best Korean cookbooks for grilling with Korean-American flavors and finding ingredients outside of Korea.

In Korean BBQ, chef Bill Kim has tailored 80 recipes for home cooks with appropriate substitutions for ingredients that aren’t always easy to find.

His recipes teach you how to make seven master sauces and three spice rubs to use with an assortment of food, including Kimchi Potato Salad, Kori-Can Pork Chops, and Honey Soy Flank Steak.

What’s best is that this cookbook takes it up a notch with fun snacks, sides, drinks, and dessert so you can have a memorable experience around the grill.

I hope you enjoy these fantastic Korean cookbooks and are inspired to prepare some tasty Korean dishes.

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British recipes incorporate various styles and ingredients from the four nations that comprise the United Kingdom, as well as the country’s diverse immigrant culture.

These unique British cookbooks offer an experience deeper than cooking.

Not only will you enjoy creating various British snacks, meals, desserts, and cocktails, but you’ll also appreciate beautiful photography and personal memoirs.

Essential British Cookbooks

These writers and chefs share the stories behind their meals and the exciting process of cooking which they demonstrate such incredible passion for.

Each of these British cookbooks will take you on an inspiring journey to rediscover UK cuisine in the comfort of your own kitchen.

The Female Chef: 30 women redefining the British food scene

When we look at British Michelin-starred chefs, we quickly notice many of them are men even though many women are known for their outstanding cooking skills. The idea behind The Female Chef is to highlight and celebrate the female chef, too.

This incredible cookbook shares interviews, portraits, and unique recipes from 30 women. The author, Clare Finney, has written for various national and regional magazines. She was also Fortnum and Mason’s Food Writer of The Year in 2019.

Buy a copy of The Female Chef here!

Sea & Shore: Recipes and Stories from a Kitchen in Cornwall

Cornwall is a historic county in Southwest England with breathtaking beaches and waves perfect for surfers. Sea & Shore shares this enchanting scene with more than 80 seasonal recipes that are simple yet delicious.

Not only is Sea & Shore an excellent cookbook, but it also brings in storytelling that draws the reader in. Enjoy breathtaking photos and memories that join the ingredients that create recipes you can make in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Best of all, you’ll never get bored with the variety, including a buffalo mozzarella salad, Port Isaac Mackerel, and pecan almond granola.

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Aran: Recipes and Stories from a Bakery in the Heart of Scotland

Aran is one of the most remarkable British cookbooks that comes from an artisan bakery in Scotland. It’s beautifully written by a Great British Bake Off star, Flora Shedden. In this British cookbook, she showcases easy, modern recipes.

Alongside these special recipes, you can enjoy stunning photography from the heart of Scotland. She also shares stories about the people and places that have inspired her. You can’t help but love Aran for these connections and sweet and savoury recipes for breakfast, snacks, sweet treats, and more. 

Buy a copy of Aran here!

The Borough Market Cookbook: Recipes and stories from a year at the market 

Borough Market is central London’s historic food market and a hub for the local food scene. The Borough Market Cookbook takes you on an exciting adventure through a year at the market.

The book features recipes that highlight your favourite seasons and holidays. Enjoy chilled asparagus soup in the spring and rolled pork belly in the summer.

You’ll learn about the best seasonal ingredients and tips for shopping and preparing cuisine. While readers adore the recipes, the beautiful images throughout the book lead way to unmatched inspiration! 

Buy a copy of The Borough Market Cookbook here!

East London Food: The people, the places, the recipes

After the original East London Food book did so well, this second volume was written. This new version of East London Food shares 20 new culinary hot spots in London’s most diverse and progressive areas.

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In East London Food, you’re introduced to 40 top chefs, eager entrepreneurs, and young producers at the centre of a culinary prodigy.

You’ll find Michelin-starred chefs, urban beekeepers, and expert butchers. Not only will you discover where to enjoy exceptional meals, but you’ll also appreciate beautiful photography and an easy pull-out recipe booklet.

Buy a copy of East London Food here!

Gather: Simple, Seasonal Recipes from Gill Meller, Head Chef at River Cottage

Gather is known as one of the best British cookbooks, and it even won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book Award in 2017! It features 120 recipes that are inspired by the landscapes chef Gill Meller loves.

In this comprehensive cookbook, you can find food from the farm, sea, garden, orchard, field, woodland, and harbour. Think port, dairy, crab, salads, fruits, fish, and more. Gather celebrates all the best British seasonal cooking.

Buy a copy of Gather here!

Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant

A Sunday Times Bestseller, Dishoom (written by the founders of the celebrated London restaurant), shares the secrets behind the best Bombay comfort foods.

Enjoy recipes for mouthwatering dishes, including a Bacon Naan Roll, Black Daal Okra Fries, Chicken Ruby, and more. You can also create unique and simple coolers and cocktails.

As you learn to cook comfort foods, Dishoom will take you on a tour of south Bombay. You’ll discover simple pleasures from morning chai with an omelette at Kyani and Co. to a sunset stroll on the beach at Chowpatty. 

Buy a copy of Dishoom here!

Rosa’s Thai Cafe: The Cookbook

Rosa’s Thai Cafe shares over 100 recipes for Thai food with a modern twist. Enjoy making family favourites, delicious street food, and mouthwatering regional dishes. You’ll learn to create Thai dishes such as Green Mango Salad, Spicy Grilled Beef Salad, and Pad Thai Prawn.

In Rosa’s Thai Cafe, you’ll find western ingredients that create contemporary Thai dishes. Appreciate learning traditional Thai cooking techniques as you take trips back home with Thai British chef and author Saiphin Moore.

Buy a copy of Rosa’s Thai Cafe here!

The Lost Orchard: A French chef rediscovers a great British food heritage

The Lost Orchard is one of the most one-of-a-kind British cookbooks. It’s written as a love letter to fruits from author and chef Raymond Blanc’s orchard. He’s planted 2,500 fruit trees around his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire, which creates about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year.

This exciting cookbook draws you in with beautiful illustrations and photographs. As you flip through The Lost Orchard, you’ll also come across fascinating information, stories, and recipes that all go back to various apples, pears, and other fruits found at the orchard.

Buy a copy of The Lost Orchard here!

Traditional Welsh Home Cooking: 65 Classic Recipes

After an exploration of geography and culinary accounts for many years back, Traditional Welsh Home Cooking was written to share traditional Welsh cuisine.

For a long time, the standard diet of the local working population came from ingredients available to them (fishermen, farmers, coal miners, and labourers). As recipes have been communicated through word of mouth and passed down from older generations, they’ve taken on different forms.

Traditional Welsh Home Cooking shares these recipe variations and presents traditional Welsh food from the hills, valleys, and fishing villages. Enjoy creating mouthwatering fare, including roast chicken, mussels, a traditional brith, and so much more!

Buy a copy of Traditional Welsh Home Cooking here!

The Ritz London: The Cookbook

The Ritz London is a British cookbook that features photos that are equally as beautiful as the recipes. It’s part recipe book and part memoir, written by chef John Williams who shares accounts from his Michelin-starred dining room at the Ritz and the renowned Palm Court and Rivoli Bar.

This cookbook is divided into 4 seasons and boasts 100 amazing recipes. You’ll learn to craft amazing meals, snacks, and desserts like Roast Scallops Bergamot & Avocado, Grand Marnier Soufflé, and The Ritz Trifle.

You’ll also get insight to Williams’ culinary philosophy and expertise as you turn the pages of The Ritz London. 

Buy a copy of The Ritz London here!

We hope you appreciated learning about these incredible British cookbooks and found a few you want to check out. Enjoy discovering and creating UK cuisine!

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With Japanese cuisine being one of the most renowned, beautiful, and respected cuisines in the world, it’s easy to feel intimidated when attempting it yourself.

Japanese cooking often looks impossible to try at home. But that is far from true, many dishes are deceptively simple and work off some basic ingredients.

Provided you have the right Japanese cookbooks, a whole world can open up to you. Each of these books tackles a different avenue of Japanese cuisine, you’ll be a master chef of Japanese home cooking in no time.

We love using Sous Chef for buying our Japanese ingredients. From staples like noodles and rice, to dashi powder, bonito flakes, and seasonings. You can find everything you need here. We can also offer ten pounds off your first purchase with this link.

Japanese Cookbook for Beginners: Classic and Modern Recipes Made Easy

This is a great cookbook for the person that’s desperate to get into the delicious world of Japanese cooking at home but needs to start from scratch.

The book includes a huge number of recipes that are easy, to begin with, as well as some that will carry on being delicious long after you’ve perfected your skills.

Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is a comprehensive list of kitchen essentials that you’ll need to master Japanese cooking – this is really helpful as it gives you a brilliant place to start from.

Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook

Tokyo has long been lauded as a wonderful culinary destination, and this book has capitalized on the rich food culture of the city.

Throughout the book, we are taken on a culinary tour of Tokyo, starting at the lower ground level of basement eateries, and ending with modern Tokyo cuisine which is served in beautiful high-rise buildings throughout the city.

The book features a number of recipes that are delightfully authentic while also being perfectly achievable for the home chef – this is a truly great book for a cook at any skill level.

Atsuko’s Japanese Kitchen: Home-cooked comfort food made simple

Comfort food is one of the great joys of life, and this book truly delivers on the title.

Japanese comfort food is delightfully rich in savory umami flavors and allows for a wonderful breadth of ingredients that’s pleasantly rare and modern when compared to other comfort food classics.

There are over seventy-five recipes in this Japanese cookbook that are all sure to bring joy to the part of your soul only sated with comfort food.

It’s a great book for beginner Japanese chefs, who’d love to replicate their favourites but feel a little intimidated.

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Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors

This book combines simple, fresh ingredients with straightforward recipes to make the best part of Japanese cuisine: home cooking.

Amongst the 100+ recipes in this book are a number of deliciously home-oriented snacks and meals, as well as some delightful drinks and pantry-fillers.

The book is great for beginners as it starts by helping you put together an ideal pantry for Japanese cooking and then holds your hand as you combine the wonderful flavors you’ve just brought into your home.

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Sushi Cookbooks – For Amazing Sushi at Home

Sushi at Home: The Beginner’s Guide to Perfect, Simple Sushi

Sushi is arguably the most famous thing to ever come out of Japan, and it’s no surprise that a huge number of people want to learn to make sushi at home.

This book is sure to teach you all of the tips and tricks that a practiced sushi chef has up their sleeves, allowing you to make the most wonderful sushi from the comfort of your own kitchen.

As well as having recipes for all of your favorites, this book also has a number of fresh twists on classic choices, meaning that you’ll never get bored of sushi again!

The author is a renowned Japanese cookery teacher, so you can be sure that Yuki will be able to help you learn more no matter your skill level.

Sushi Taste and Technique: Kimiko Barber and Hiroki Takemura

This is a great book which helps to demystify the world of sushi and Japanese cooking in general.

The authors are very successful sushi chefs who will help you learn the basics well before gently easing you on to more complex recipes.

Helpfully, the book also includes a photographic guide to a number of different fish and shellfish. This means that you’ll be able to prepare the fish just as well as any other part of your wonderful creations.

This book is a great buy for anyone looking to create authentic sushi that’s amazing every time.

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Ramen Cookbooks for Hearty Meals

Ramen Obsession: The Ultimate Bible for Mastering Japanese Ramen

Ramen is another famous Japanese food which people the world over have fallen in love with a thousand times over. Instant ramen is famous for being, well, instant.

This book promises to teach you to leave those instant pots behind and make a wonderful bowl of ramen completely from scratch.

The 130 recipes in this book take you on a ramen tour of the world, from traditional Japan to unique US creations.

Let’s Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook

This light-hearted Japanese cookbook is a wonderful choice for anyone who’s fed up with the occasionally-snobby vibe that some cookbooks can give off.

This book truly delivers on what the title promises, and is a beautiful fusion of graphic novels and informative cookbooks.

The illustrations throughout the book make it perfect for beginners, as they show you just how to achieve the aesthetic of a gorgeous bowl of ramen while also being fun and playful.

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Dumplings and Noodles: Bao, Gyoza, Biang Biang, Ramen and Everything in Between

A huge number of cultures and cuisines around the world have some form of dumpling in their famous recipes and since it would be a shame to stick to just one or two types, you can indulge all your pasta and dumpling dreams with this collection of recipes.

This cookbook teaches you how to make all of your favorites, from barbecue pork bao to chili oil wontons, while also sparing some room for ramen and other noodle-based dishes.

This is a great book for someone who loves to cook and is looking for a few extra recipes.

Japanese Vegetarian and Vegan Cookbooks

Vegan JapanEasy: classic & modern vegan Japanese recipes to cook at home

Japanese cuisine is much more vegan friendly than you might think, and this book will show you how, with a few simple substitutions, you can make vegan spins on Japanese classics.

The flavor palate of Japanese food comes down to a wonderful blend of spices, herbs, and pastes which this book will show you how to replicate in vegan food.

This is a great book for a practiced chef looking to expand their vegan recipes or a vegan looking to expand their regular home dishes.

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Japan: The World Vegetarian

A number of classic pieces of vegetarian food come from Japanese cuisine. The classic example is tofu, which is a wonderful vegetarian staple the world over.

With over 70 delicious recipes, the book is sure to expand your vegetarian cooking skills and help you learn about delicate Japanese herbs and spices.

Try making your own delicious Japanese desserts:

Japanese Desserts Cookbook: A Handbook of Japanese Confections

Japanese desserts have a powerful place in world culture, from emojis to anime, and it’s likely that you’ve enjoyed your fair share of beautiful photos of them online.

The desserts are extremely unique, so you may doubt your ability to make such a complex set of dishes. Don’t worry, however, this book is sure to help you learn just how to make your favorites.

The book has thirty dessert recipes, all of which are perfect for the sweet-tooth in your family!

Read More: Pair your dessert with Japanese tea! Here are 11 types of Japanese tea, their history, and how to brew them.

Combine your meal with a drink:

The Japanese Sake Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Great Sake

Sake is, in many ways, Japan’s national drink. It’s unique in every way, from its history to its ingredients, and there are many different bottles out there.

This book will help you learn to select a good bottle, as well as to serve it perfectly and share it with other enthusiasts.

The book has over three-hundred photos to help you learn, and would be an ideal gift for someone who’s just stepping into the complex world of sake.

We hope you enjoyed this list of Japanese cookbooks, please consider sharing this list with others who love Japanese food as much as we do.

We millennials wear enamel pins and put stickers on our MacBooks which proudly display our love for coffee. All this adds up to the fact that there are no shortage of great gifts for coffee lovers.

When shopping for gifts for coffee lovers, you can go down the route of coffee itself: buy them specialist beans or bags of ground coffee. Or how about tools and utensils?

Grinders, cafetières, espresso machines. Or there’s the aforementioned pins, patches, and stickers. And let’s not forget the things that many coffee lovers also adore: books.

Unique Gifts for Coffee Lovers

Whatever kind of coffee addict you are or know, there’s a perfect gift out there. And, likelihood is, you’ll find it right here on this list of gifts for coffee lovers. Have a browse and see just how wonderful the wonderful world of coffee really is.

Coffees of the World Gift Set

Truly dedicated and impassioned coffee lovers really know their stuff when it comes to coffee. That includes the country, the climate, even the very soil of specific beans. If you’re one of these obsessive coffee-addicts, this gift set is exactly what you’re looking for.

If you’re not one of these coffee-addicts but, perhaps, you’d like to be. Or you just want the chance to sample coffees from all around the “coffee belt”, then this is the best way to do so.

This Coffees of the World Gift Set allows you the opportunity to find your favourite coffee or try something you’ve never had before!

Pact Coffee Subscription

One of the very kindest gifts for coffee lovers is a monthly coffee subscription, especially one where you can tweak details of the subscription to your personal liking.

These tweaks include the type of coffee and where it’s from, the grind size, and the frequency of delivery.

Pact Coffee are also a really decent company. They put a focus on ethical trade to source and prepare their coffee. They also provide a drip filter in order for you to properly prepare and enjoy your coffee. And, to top it all off, your plan can be paused, tweaked, or cancelled at any time!

Aeropress Coffee Maker

This, right here, is the best and highest-quality method of making espresso at home without using an espresso machine. The Aeropress Coffee Maker is also super compact and portable, making it a great gift for travellers.

With a bag of ground coffee, this coffee maker takes 90 seconds to brew the perfect espresso, of the same quality that any massive espresso machine would make. You can use compostable coffee filters with it and enjoy genuinely fantastic coffee whenever you want it.

If you’re interested in how an Aeropress works and how to use one, here’s their very own tutorial.

Toasted Coconut Coffee Organic Scrub

Moving away from drinkable coffee for a second, here’s one of the more unique gifts for coffee lovers. The kind of gift for anyone who wants to smell coffee – or smell like coffee – even when there’s no mug in sight.

This organic coffee and salt scrub exfoliates and hydrates your skin, all the while filling the room with the enticing aroma of fresh coffee. It’s an entirely organic and cruelty-free body scrub, perfect for animal lovers as well as coffee lovers.

Copper 3-Cup Cafetière

While there are a dozen different ways to make coffee, one of the simplest quality methods is to buy a bag of ground coffee and prepare a few cups using a cafetiere (french press).

If you’re a fan of ground cafetière coffee, why not treat yourself to a particularly gorgeous rose gold cafetiere from Whittard.

Experts in tea and coffee, anyhing bought from Whittard is not only of excellent quality, but also lavishly designed.

Barista & Co. Black Coffee Brew It Stick

Essentially, this is a reusable teabag for coffee! The Brew It Stick from Wittard allows you to make a single cup of coffee using ground coffee, just like with a cafetière. It’s ideal for leaving at work or taking in your suitcase.

If you’re living alone or with no other coffee lovers, this is far more ideal for one person than a cafetière.

You simple scoop your ground coffee into the bag at the end of the stick, pour hot water over it and into the cup, and let it sit for a minute. Perfect coffee every time.

Personalised Coffee Scoop

Whether you like drip coffee or cafetière coffee, if you like to buy yourself bags of ground coffee beans, this is a fantastic gift for you.

These coffee spoons come in one of three colours – gold, silver, and rose gold – and can be engraved with any phrase you fancy!

This is one of the more precious and unique gifts for coffee lovers; great for giving to a coffee-addicted friend or family member for their birthday.

Handmade Scented Natural Candle With Coffee Beans

Here’s another one of our gifts for coffee lovers that’s neither coffee nor a specialty tool. Many coffee lovers, after all, can’t get enough of that invigorating coffee aroma, and this is the gift for them.

While coffee-scented candles aren’t all that uncommon these days, it’s rare to find one with a handful of coffee beans embedded into the candle wax itself.

This is truly one of the most unique gifts for coffee lovers – a real novelty beauty.

Just in case, here are some coffee wax melts if you prefer.

Coffee And Cats T Shirt

While we can only speak for ourselves, as far as we’re concerned, the holy trinity of a good home life is: books, coffee, and cats. We’ve got you covered with books below, but here is something for the coffee-and-cats-lover.

This adorable t-shirt is printed with a cute design that proudly demonstrates to every passerby that you are a dedicated fan of too much coffee and too many cats. Welcome to the club!

DeLonghi EC702 15-Bar-Pump Espresso Maker

Time to bring out the big guns: a hefty machine with a fancy brand name and a barcode in place of a memorable name. To get one of these is to make the jump from coffee lover to coffee aficionado.

This espresso maker is for people who love to enjoy multiple cups of coffee a day at home, and who want the absolute highest quality coffee each and every day. Possibly the very best of gifts for coffee lovers.

Espresso Cup Set

So, you’ve got yourself an espresso machine (or maybe an Aeropress). To complete your transition to hardcore coffee-obsessive, you’ll need a sleek, stylish set of espresso cups.

This set is reasonably priced and has all the style of a slick blazer: matte black on the outside, subtle bold colour in the lining. These sturdy espresso cups toe the line between playful and mature.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

If you or your coffee-addicted friends are also big bookworms, there’s no better reading material for coffee lovers than Before the Coffee Gets Cold and its sequel Tales from the Cafe.

These are two gorgeous Japanese novels, written by Toshikazu Gawagushi and translated by Geoffrey Trousselot.

They are both set in a small, unassuming Tokyo cafe, and they centre around the charming cast of characters who work there. Plus, there’s the small matter of that table in the corner which sends customers back in time.

With an emphasis on fresh ingredients and simple techniques, Greek food is undoubtedly incredibly popular the world over.

However, when we consider Greek dishes, quite often only a few staples jump to mind fresh salads with feta and olives, hearty dishes such as moussaka, dolmades, and the wide array of dips we’ve grown to love like taramasalata and tzatziki.

Perhaps you have dipped a toe into desserts such as baklava and bougatsa paired with a Greek coffee and want to recreate that experience at home or simply dig deeper into the healthy and fresh dishes that have become synonymous with Greek cooking.

Though digging into some of the less healthy but truly indulgent dishes like feta me meli is highly recommended.

Of course, you can’t delve into this learning more about this cuisine without considering the history of the region and the influences upon many of these dishes.

Many of these Greek cookbooks include Cypriot and Turkish inspired dishes and you will also discover cookbooks dedicated to the dishes of north and south Cyprus which has its own unique gastronimic culture.

We love using Sous Chef for buying our cooking ingredients. From staples to harder to find specialities. You can find everything you need here. We can also offer ten pounds off your first purchase with this link.

Our Favourite Turkish, Cypriot, and Greek Cookbooks

Master Eastern Mediterranean cuisine with these amazing greek cookbooks, including Cypriot and Turkish collections, showcasing this truly diverse culinary region.

1) Aegean: Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea by Marianna Leivaditaki

While the recipes in Aegean are utterly delicious in their own right, the thing that truly sets this collection apart from others is the clear love that the author has for their own recipes and culture.

Leivaditaki grew up on the island of Crete helping at a family-run taverna, with many of these recipes inspired by the dishes she learnt there from her grandparents.

The author is the head chef of a popular restaurant in London and has a reputation for providing simple and stunning dishes.

Bringing together the freshness and goodness of ingredients collected from the sea, mountain, and land, this book is sure to be popular with anyone who enjoys Mediterranean food.

As big tahini fans, we were inspired by the many recipes incorporating the sesame flavour in surprising and innovative ways.

2) Taverna by Georgina Hayden

Greek Cypriot food is a wonderful combination of a huge number of different flavours. From simple salads to beautiful ingredients like feta, you just can’t go wrong.

Throwing in a squeeze of lemon and some fresh oregano, and you’re sure to fall in love with cooking all over again.

Taverna takes the best of traditional Cypriot cooking and makes it accessible for anyone looking to dive into this special cuisine — this is helped strongly by the fact Hayden has lovingly interwoven stories and passion for each of the dishes allowing you to learn about Cypriot culture right along with the food.

There’s truly something for everyone in this book, from hearty family meals, inspired breakfast and lunches, to date-night favourites.

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3) Under the Olive Tree: Recipes from My Greek Kitchen by Irini Tzortzoglou

This book is one you will love to pick up again and again; designed to allow the cook to feverishly flick through the pages even with a spoon in their hand.

The pages are overflowing with accessible, everyday food ideal for home cooks as well as tips that are handy for cooking any number of other cuisines too.

Under the Olive Tree seamlessly jumps from light and fresh salads to huge meals ideal for those times of the year when feasting is the only thing to do.

It’s truly ideal for people of any skill level with a handy rundown of what ingredients are typically used in Greek meals, common terms, and what you should stock in your cupboard.

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4) Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean by Yasmin Khan

This stunning book combines both great recipes and truly powerful stories. Greece has long stood as an impressive meeting point between Europe and the middle east, and that is reflected in Ripe Figs.

Throughout the book, we hear stories of people creating truly wonderful food throughout Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey tracing recipes that have spread from the time of Ottoman rule to the influence of recent refugee communities.

What makes this book stand out is that the food you make in the recipes is almost an accompaniment to the words themselves, we’re treated to an in-depth look at what goes into each wonderful dish.

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5) MAZI: Modern Greek Food by Christina Mouratoglou & Adrien Carré

Mazi is a Greek word, which means a gathering or company, usually of people. It’s that concept which gets so effortlessly explored in this book — the idea of great food bringing people together so that they can break bread and laugh uproariously while making great memories.

Mazi: Modern Greek Food specializes in presenting the reader with authentically Greek flavours, but with a delicious modern twist.

This twist is what makes the recipes stand out in your mind, and makes you keep coming back to them for family gatherings and, especially, celebrations.

6) Oklava: Recipes from a Turkish–Cypriot Kitchen by Selin Kiazim

Turkish-Cypriot food is a wonderful combination of countless influences, the big hitters including the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, and the Middle East. Oklava celebrates all of those incredible influences in a way that no other before.

The dishes are mouthwatering and you learn a little something along the way to boot.

These amazing recipes will take you on a journey from home-cooked Cypriot meals eaten in blissfully hot and slow summer to exciting twists on the classics cooked in incredible modern restaurants.

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7) Greek Slow Cooker, The: Easy, Delicious Recipes From the Heart of the Mediterranean by Eleni Vonissakou

Greek food often involves a lot of slow, long cooking processes. While standing over a stove all day might be perfect for some people, it simply isn’t practical for others.

Greek Slow Cooker is all about how classically wonderful Greek recipes can be adapted to cooking in a slow-cooker, making it possible to easily enjoy Greek food in your home.

We particularly love the incredible tender lamb fricassee with lettuce and herbs — we make it much more than we probably should, but the flavour combination is just so good!

8) The Food of the Greek Islands: Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean by Aglaia Kremezi

This book perfectly showcases a simple fact about cooking: the best cooking is done by working people, on the streets, not in castles.

Food of the Greek Islands is packed full of incredible recipes that Kremezi collected from farmers and fishermen across the Greek islands.

A good selection of these recipes are vegetarian, making the book an instant hit with any veggie friends.

As with all Mediterranean food, the dishes are stupendously light, simple and bring seasonal fresh produce right to the centre of the dinner table.

Most of these recipes have never before been written down, and yet here we are able to cook some of the best food we’ve ever eaten.

9) The Complete Book of Greek Cooking by St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church

This fascinating and absolute classic of a book was made for a very interesting reason.

In years gone by, the Greek Orthodox church noticed that a large number of young married couples had no standard recipes that they could use to feed their growing families.

So, the Church went to all of its congregants and gathered the recipes in this book, which serves to standardize some of the best home cooking on the planet.

The food is all hearty and delicious, with home-style Greek cooking appealing to people around the world.

10) My Big Fat Greek Cookbook: Classic Mediterranean Soul Food Recipes by Christos Sourligas &  Evdokia Antginas 

Every now and then a book like this one comes along. It embraces soul healing which can be utterly divine for any number of people when they eat great food made by their own hands.

My Big Fat Greek Cookbook is packed with more than divine recipes, it’s also packed with incredible recipes, beautiful photographs, traditional meals, memories, and lovely tidbits of information that draw people back to Greek tables time and time again.

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11) The Ultimate Healthy Greek Cookbook: 75 Authentic Recipes for a Mediterranean Diet by Yiota Giannakopoulou

This is a cookbook that sees the wonderful combination of a health-conscious diet with a tasty one. For years the Mediterranean diet has been lauded as an incredibly healthy one, and this book exemplifies that.

In this Healthy Greek Cookbook, there are recipes for vibrant and beautiful salads as well as speciality types of bread which are sure to delight every foodie out there.

Here we’re shown just what makes Greek food good by sharing all of the ways in which different spices and syrups have come to Greece.

This book is ideal for anyone looking for an ‘education’ in wonderful Greek cooking.

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Cookbooks are a huge passion of mine, there’s very little that will stop me dropping money on a new cookbook despite my wallet crying out at me.

The history and culture you learn from African and Asian cookbooks is almost always worth the price and I often find them better for digging into the culture than many travelogues.

Here, I’ve tried to pick some of the very best Asian cookbooks to get you started with your Asian cooking journey.

Bear in mind that I’m not covering all of the wonderful and diverse cuisines in Asia, this is a list of my personal favourites which I’ve learned a lot from recently or over the years.

I generally like to buy cookbooks that cover more than one country preferring books that focus on a single country or food type as I learn a lot more — which does make for a very full bookshelf.

If you do want a fantastic cookbook which picks some of the very best food from around Asia, I do recommend East by Meera Sodha.

Below, the fourteen Asian cookbooks have been categorised into: Southeast Asian cookbooks, Indian cookbooks, Korean cookbooks, Japanese cookbooks, Chinese cookbooks, and a few others that don’t fit neatly into a single category.

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Southeast Asian Cookbooks

Here are two cookbooks from Southeast Asia: one all about traditional Indonesian cooking, and another about foods and meals from Vietnam.

Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from my Indonesian Kitchen

The gorgeous cover is admittedly what initially drew us in to this exceptional Asian cookbook. Indonesia is somewhere we’ve always wanted to visit and we’ve always found Indonesian food to be a delight for the senses.

But it’s definitely a knowledge gap for us so getting to experience Indonesian cuisine through these recipes and beautiful pictures of Indonesia as Lara tells stories of her childhood in Indonesia was a real pleasure.

The title comes from the fact that you will always find coconut and sambal (a chilli sauce used to season food) at any Indonesian table and the history you learn about these key aspects of the cuisine is just one takeaway from the many lesson this book offers.

You’ll learn everything from street food snacks, to main dishes including favourites like beef rendang, nasi goreng, and satay, and desserts in over eighty recipes and come out with new knowledge and appreciation of Indonesian food and culture. 

The Food of Vietnam

This book is very much a journey through Vietnam as tv host and chef takes us with him as he travels from south to north Vietnam regaling us with stories and region-specific recipes as he goes.

Whether you want to perfect your pho and understand the heritage of this belly-warming dish or dig into making some crispy banh xeo these are actionable, easy to follow recipes that will have you cooking in no time.

Or if you simply just want to enjoy the photos and learn more about the country, this hefty book is a real celebration of the culture and will transport you to Vietnam.

Indian Cookbooks

These are two fantastic Indian cookbooks, both celebrated but each very different, showcasing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wealth and breadth, and diversity of food and cooking in India.

Dishoom: From Bombay With Love

If you’ve had the pleasure of dining in the extremely popular London chain Dishoom, then you’ll already be as excited about this cookbook as I was.

And yes, their okra fries, bacon nan, and chai recipes are in there! If you haven’t, Dishoom serve Indian comforting meals often with a Western twist and it works on so many levels.

The photography and history sections of the book, which do make up about half of the book, are a delight to delve into and the passion for Bombay jumps out at you at every page turn.

The design and aesthetics of the book make this one that you’ll want to pick up over and over again. The book also offers alternatives for difficult to source items and offers menu ideas at the end for special occasions like Eid and Diwali.

If you want your Asian cookbooks to be detailed and beautiful, there are none better than this one.

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Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a Street Food Journey Through India

The food of India is incredibly diverse and it’s sad that many of us in the UK think Indian cuisine starts and ends with what we can get at our local takeaway.

This amazing cookbook takes the reader through Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi giving an introduction to each city, photos, and around twenty street food recipes special to the area.

A real treat is the chutney and masala section where you can learn to make favourites like tomato and date chutney and chaat masala.

This book absolutely focuses on the food and recipes rather than stories so if you want maximum new dishes to experiment with, this is a perfect book.

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Korean Cookbooks

These two Korean cookbooks compliment each other perfectly, with one being an introduction to Korean home cooking (and Korean food in general) and the other being more intense and detailed.

Our Korean Kitchen

The cookbook that started our love of cookbooks. We bought this after living in Korea and missing all the wonderful foods that had been readily available there but painfully expensive or hard to find in the UK.

There are 100 dishes in this clear and bright cookbook, as well as recipes on how to make your own kimchi and other pickles plus a selection of savoury pancakes that are simple to make and difficult to resist.

Our Korean Kitchen is ideal if you’re looking to introduce Korean cooking to your kitchen with simple to follow recipes.

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Judy Joo’s Korean Soul Food

While Our Korean Kitchen is a great starting point, Korean Soul Food takes you much deeper into the cuisine and explains Korean key ingredients and basics before delving in the recipes, street food, and kimchi options.

The modern twists also give you much more to work with like the legendary Philly cheesesteak dumplings and the Korean UK fusion dish fish and mushy beans!

The recipes are consistently fun, fresh, and heartwarming. This cookbook is a joy to read. When it comes to detailed and fun Asian cookbooks, there are few as good as Korean Soul Food.

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Japanese Cookbooks

With Japanese food being so diverse, here are three unique Japanese cookbooks with three different approaches to cooking Japanese food at home.

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Vegan JapanEasy

Tim Anderson has written some of the most colourful and fun books on Japanese cooking with highlights including Tokyo Stories and Japan Easy, this latest gorgeous cookbook addition brings vegan Japanese food to your home.

With detailed explanations of Japanese cooking methods and flavourings, you get a thorough understanding of Japanese cooking, the vegan Japanese and how veganism lends itself well to this cuisine.

Fun recipes include watermelon sake mojitos and one-hour aubergine and courgette ramen that’s apparently easier to make than cleaning up after a naughty plant-pot-breaking cat (though I haven’t made it yet to confirm!)

The vegan sushi chapter is very welcome and clearly explained so you’ll be making delicious rolls in no time.

(Bonus: For Vegetarian Japanese food lovers, I also recommend Japan: The World Vegetarian)

Atsuko’s Japanese Kitchen

Atsuko has been running cooking classes in London for over ten years after missing her home cuisine.

We often associate Japanese food with delicate and healthy dishes served in high-end restaurants but Japanese home cooking some of the most hearty and satisfying out there and this cookbook really brings that home – so to speak.

It also takes through Japan’s eight major regions and their differences in cooking style as well as the basis for all Japanese cooking, those skills you should master and meal planning.

From easy one-plate meals to soups and noodles plus delicious desserts. If you want to start mastering Japanese cookery, this is one of the best Asian cookbooks to further your knowledge beyond the usual with simple, actionable recipes.

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Sushi at Home: The Beginner’s Guide to Perfect, Simple Sushi

We were lucky enough to take Yuki’s udon making class in London so we were very happy to also indulge in her cookbook Sushi at Home.

We’ve taken sushi-making classes before but this book still served as a reminder of those tips and tricks that make rolling sushi at home easy as well as more advanced techniques and recipes that we wouldn’t have tried without this book.

From simple rolls to more complicated recipes, everything you need is explained in detail with a short background to every dish. This is everything you need for making great sushi at home.

Chinese Cookbooks

We all see something different in our mind’s eye when we think and talk about Chinese food. To try and cover as many bases as possible, these three Chinese cookbooks each explore a different tradition, region, or approach to Chinese home cooking.

The Dumpling Sisters Cookbook

Master Chinese cookery at home with sisters Amy and Julie, they also have a blog and Youtube channel so this brings all of that together in a handy guide of delicious recipes.

This is the kind of cookbook that you just keep coming back to, the recipes are achievable and it’s full of tips and tricks to master those Chinese flavours and textures that make us love the cuisine so much.

Simple tips like ‘slicing meat against the grain’ and using ‘light vs dark’ soy sauce can make all the difference despite seeming like small factors.

You’ll find chapters on dumplings, easy and quick dishes like fried rice, syrupy soy chicken, and stir-fries, noodles, and desserts. This is an all-in-one friendly recipe book that’ll get you cooking in no time.

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Complete Chinese Cookbook

This is the book you want if you really want to delve into the traditional cuisine of China and get to know the country’s variations across its provinces.

The complete introduction to the schools of Chinese cooking and how history has greatly impacted Chinese cuisine leaves you fascinated and want to learn more.

The author has been teaching Chinese cookery for over forty years and it shows, the recipes are clear, detailed, and  Hom is ready to impart his decades of knowledge to you here.

Aside from hundreds of recipes separated by category, you’ll also receive lessons on how to eat Chinese food, what equipment you need, and menu guidance.

The Food of Sichuan

An absolute classic cookbook of Chinese cuisine, The Food of Sichuan introduces you to the fundamentals of cooking food from the Sichuan province of China which has some unique (and incredibly spicy) dishes on offer.

This is an updated version of the original cookbook with over fifty new recipes of varying preparation times from quick side dishes to truly impressive spreads.

Also, delving into the history and culture of China and Sichuan province, this is more than a cookbook and in many ways a love letter to a gastronomically fascinating region.

Chinese Takeaway Cookbook

Since Chinese takeaway is a very different beast to standard Chinese and Cantonese cuisine, then it seemed fair to include this for those wanting to make their takeaway favourites at home!

This book is a great way to save money and recreate dishes like ’crispy seaweed’ (a confirmed addiction of mine), ‘duck pancakes with hoisin sauce’, ‘sesame prawn toast’, ‘wonton soup’, ‘honey and lemon chicken’ and other delicious dishes.

You’re also given chapters on Chinese cooking techniques and food etiquette and customs to broaden your knowledge in that area. They also offer a vegetarian version of this book!

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Other Asian Cookbooks

Here are two Asian cookbooks which don’t fit one specific country, but rather a broader area or region. The first is a book on traditional food from the Caucasus region, and the second is an Asian cookbook showing you how to make Asian food from home that’s entirely gluten-free.

Kaukasis The Cookbook

This cookbook is a powerhouse of knowledge and storytelling from a part of the world that we perhaps at first don’t consider when it comes to fantastic cuisine.

This was a totally new ingredient set for me and not a cooking style I’d ever tried before but was perfect for recreating some of those fantastic dishes I’ve had on my travels at home.

Some ingredients are difficult to find in the UK but you can easily swap things outdoor substitute when you have to.

One of the highlights of this book are the big photographs which take you on a journey of these fascinating countries.

Dumplings and Noodles

If you’re a lover of starchy, doughy noodles and dumplings then this is the book for you. This cookbook teaches you how to make all of your favourites from scratch, from barbecue pork bao to chili oil wontons, while also sparing some room for ramen and other noodle-based dishes.

Dumplings and Noodles is ideal for someone who loves to cook and is looking for a few extra recipes or would like to learn a whole new skill such as how to hand-pull noodles or make wontons. The author also has a new Asian-inspired cookbook Bowls & Broths on the way.

The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen

This book is fantastic for mastering the basics like sauces and dumplings if you need to make things gluten-free.

As someone who follows a gluten-free diet who almost entirely eats Asian food, learning how to easily substitute some ingredients without dramatically changing the dish has been invaluable.

I hope you enjoy these wonderful Asian cookbooks and make some incredible meals for yourself at home. If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing.

Growing up in an Egyptian household, I’m no stranger to the delights of Middle Eastern cuisine, but even that background barely scratches the surface with eighteen countries making up what we call the Middle East.

While you’ll find similarities in ingredients or similar dishes between the individual cuisines spanning these countries and continents there are also hundreds of years of history and culture that have shaped each country’s food into something special and unique.

Here we’ve tried to give a good overview of what the region has to offer in terms of its food and drink with collections dedicated to particular countries and books which encompass the region overall in interesting ways.

The Best Middle Eastern Cookbooks Available Now

Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or simply here to learn about some Arabic desserts, these are the essential Middle Eastern cookbooks for you.

Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond & Simply Easy by Sabrina Ghayour

Persiana is a wonderful cookbook that could almost serve double duty as a coffee table book; the images are that beautiful. It is packed with mouth-watering recipes, from lamb and sour cherry meatballs to chicken, preserved lemon, and olive tagine.

Persiana is a must-buy for people who love Middle Eastern food, want a range of different country’s cuisines to choose from, and are looking to authentically recreate those flavours in their own homes.

Ghayour has also recently released a new book, Simply, in which she details some of her favourite recipes that combine both the spectacular flavour profile of Middle Eastern food and the simplicity of a great weeknight dinner.

We love both of these books equally, depending on how we’re feeling! One recipe that we can’t wait to try is the chilled pistachio and cucumber soup — perfect for a warm summer’s day!

We love using Sous Chef to buy our cooking ingredients. From staples like rice, to harder to find specialities and spices. You can find everything you need here. We can also offer ten pounds off your first purchase with this link.

New Feast: Modern Middle Eastern Vegetarian by Greg Malouf & Lucy Malouf

New Feat is a wonderful cookbook that well-and-truly delivers modern takes on classic Middle Eastern dishes. And it provides one of the best vegetarian Middle Eastern cookbooks if you don’t eat meat but still love Middle Eastern food.

There are some great recipes in there with twists that we wouldn’t have even considered, and some of our favourites are on the sweeter side. We really love the look of Malouf’s orange baklava cigars — what’s not to love about that wonderful name alone?

Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan

This book not only has some of the most stunning cover art we’ve ever seen on a cookbook, but it also has recipes packed with the freshness and brightness that you’d associated with Levantine cuisine. The recipes in the book are deeply fragrant, healthy, and utterly delicious.

This book does a great job of helping you to learn about different spices that are used in middle eastern cooking, whether in a blend or on their own. Laying the groundwork for you to embark on your own culinary journey.

Eating Out Loud: Bold Middle Eastern Flavors for All Day, Every Day by Eden Grinshpan

This great cookbook from Eden Grinshpan makes Middle Eastern cooking incredibly accessible, offering recipes that are easy to conjure up in your own home. The author’s Israeli heritage and laid-back style really come through in the book, allowing you to feel like you’re getting to know a person as well as a range of dishes.

We love how this book takes on veggies that ordinarily may be underappreciated. For example, there’s a great recipe for roasted whole heads of broccoli, topped with a herby yogurt and a crunchy, well-spiced dukkah.

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The Sultan’s Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook by Ibn Mubarak Shah

We love a good historical cookbook, and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint. The book contains over six hundred recipes, all of them informative and delicious. This is the first time that a historic Arab-Muslim cookbook, and it has been made available in English translation. This classic cookbook is certainly worth picking up a copy.

Historically speaking, cookbooks have much longer been a part of the Arab-Muslim world than they have the Western world, so this book is packed full of old recipes that you’re likely to have never heard of before. Check it out!

SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East

There’s nothing quite like an indulgent Middle Eastern dessert to make you feel satisfied, and this gorgeous Middle Eastern cookbook offers over a hundred recipes to tempt you. Suqar translates to sugar in Arabic, which is a quick and easy way to let the reader know exactly what they’re in for.

A sugar high of the finest quality, laced with spices like cardamom and cinnamon, citrus flavours, and nuts. From classics like halva and kanafah to fresh and contemporary offerings like honey sorbet and cardamon cake.

With a good range of difficulty, there’s something here for everyone.

This book is also incredibly friendly gluten-free cookbook due to there being less of a reliance on flour in Middle Eastern desserts which is a bonus for those of us who usually have to resist.

The Taste of Egypt: Home Cooking from the Middle East by Dyna Eldaief

This wonderful book encompasses not only the unique and delicious food of the Middle East but also what it’s like to be an Egyptian-Australian food blogger, and the perspective on the culinary world which that gives you.

This is a great cookbook for Egyptian food specifically, allowing you to learn about rich Egyptian culture while also eating some of the best food you’ve ever tasted.

Whether you’re looking for your new brunch staple of full al medames or you’d love to have a go at making your own stuffed vine leaves, it’s all right here.

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Vegan Recipes from the Middle East by Parvin Razavi

This beautiful Middle Eastern vegan cookbook treats fresh fruit and veg with the amount of reverence that they are typically given in the middle east. As such, there’s a great sense of respect to all the recipes, allowing the ingredients to speak for themselves.

This book does a great job of combining traditional recipes with contemporary approaches, marrying the two together in a wonderful harmony of delicious food.

You need never miss out on Middle Eastern flavours as a vegan ever again. We love the delicate preserves and pickles in this book — they truly bring the flavours of the middle east, or any dish, to the forefront.

Saffron in the Souks: Vibrant recipes from the heart of Lebanon by John Gregory-Smith  

This book, with its stunning cover art, is a wonderful introduction to Lebanese food and culture, one which is among the most delicious in the world.

We love to see books like this take a deep dive into the wonderful flavours of a place, from classic street food to decadent pastries. To finish this wonderful tome, there is a flurry of beautiful photography that adorns nearly every page. Perfect!

Anatolia: Adventures in Turkish Eating by Somer Sivrioglu & David Dale

This book prides itself on embracing the theatricality of a good dish. As such, a good many of the traditionally and wonderful Turkish meals found throughout the book are wonderfully named, from The Priest Fainted to The Sleeping Figs.

We love embracing this aspect of a great meal, so this book gets a huge thumbs-up and is perfect for anyone who loves the variety and wholesomeness of Turkish cuisine.

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Casablanca: My Moroccan Food by Nargisse Benkabbou

Benkabbou’s exciting debut cookbook offers an impressive number of wonderful Moroccan recipes throughout. In true Moroccan style, they are all decadent, delicious, and many are surprisingly simple to recreate — the sticky ras el hangout and peach short ribs being an excellent example.

We love any book that introduces us to flavours and combinations that we hadn’t heard of before, and this book certainly ticks that box. We’ve loved trying out these Moroccan recipes at home!

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TLV: Tel Aviv: Recipes and stories from Israel by Jigal Krant

TLV focuses on some of the best aspects of Tel Aviv, and how better to do that than through food and photography? Throughout this book, there are recipes for unabashed classics such as hummus and falafel, which are ideal to make your own Israeli-style fast food at home.

There are also dishes common to fancier restaurants, which are common and popular spots all over the city. The book beautifully captures the zest for life that is present in Tel Aviv and helps you to add a dash or two to your own days.

Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen by Durkhanai Ayubi 

This book not only sports stunning family recipes, but also a generous amount of heart and love. Parwana is a family-run restaurant in Adelaide from which the culinary delights of Afghanistan have been shared for a decades.

Using this book, you’ll be able to recreate some of that Afghan magic in your own home. We love the look of the wonderful Afghan pasta for its simplicity and use of traditional flavours.

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African food represents one of the most underappreciated culinary regions of them all and, by even glancing across the cuisine of each country — from north to west, to sub-Saharan Africa — you’ll find dramatically different cooking styles, traditions, and ingredients. Not to mention the huge African-American cuisine that has influenced modern cooking across the world.

African food offers foodies a wonderland of unique and delicious flavours which is sure to drive people to your kitchen in search of whatever wonderful dish smells that good.

Cookbooks for Learning Home-cooked African Food

We love African food and, in this article, we’re going to talk about some of our favourite cookbooks for making wonderful homecooked African meals. This is, by no means, a list that covers the full extent of African cuisine. It merely stands as an introduction to African food and a jumping-off point for your own African cooking adventures.

We love using Sous Chef for buying our cooking ingredients. From staples like noodles and rice, to harder to find specialities. You can find everything you need here. We can also offer ten pounds off your first purchase with this link.

The Taste of Egypt: Home Cooking from the Middle East

This wonderfully illustrated book is a great example of what can be written when cooking is treated as the art form that we know it can be. North African food often includes a huge and varied selection of delicious, rich stews and soups — along with truly spicy dishes.

This book promises a wonderful selection of recipes, all of which will certainly set your mouth watering. Whether you’re looking for breakfast staples like ful medames, or the carb-filled streetfood feast that is koshari, or the delicious dessert kanafeh, this cookbook of detailed Egyptian home cooking won’t disappoint.

Ethiopia: Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa

The history of Ethiopia is one of the most interesting ones on the whole of the African continent, if not the entire world. Thankfully, Ethiopia’s wonderful and varied cuisine has been getting the attention it deserves — speaking beautifully to the rich history of the country — and, over time, it’s becoming easier and easier to find great Ethiopian restaurants in big cities.

As it has never been directly touched by Western colonialism and has, instead, developed its technology over time (while preserving wonderful ancient traditions), Ethiopian food is a stunning mix of a number of different classical techniques and flavours with excellent modern additions.

This Ethiopian cookbook has a number of fascinating and delicious recipes, and we’d definitely recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about Ethiopian cuisine.

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Hibiscus: Discover Fresh Flavours from West Africa

This beautiful cookbook is dominated by recipes and ingredients from Nigeria which, over time, have been infused into typical western dishes. Reading this Nigerian cookbook is sure to utterly transform and reinvigorate your home cooking habits.

Whether you’re hoping to put a new spin on your classic Sunday chicken, or you’d like to try something completely new, the book has plenty of Nigerian-inspired recipes as well as helpful hints and tips.

We particularly enjoy the grapefruit and guava cheesecake recipe, as it gives a wonderfully light and fruity addition to a typically heavy and dense dish. The photography in this cookbook is also stunning and will make you want to pick up this book off your shelf just to flick through it again and again.

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Afro-vegan: Farm-fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Food Remixed

African, Caribbean, and Southern foods have longstanding legacies as being very flavour-dense and wonderfully exciting cuisines. While they also have a reputation for being mostly packed with a lot of meat and animal products, the spices in those cuisines are superb when used anywhere, and with anything.

This Afro-vegan cookbook is packed with a huge variety of delicious recipes, including a number of dishes perfect for a potluck. Some highlights include the wonderful collard greens, as well as the cabbage with lashings of garlic, a perfect pairing to jazz up an often ignore vegetable.

Truly, this book, and the recipes it contains, are wonderful for showing any chef how simple ingredients can be bought to life with unique, stunning concoctions of herbs and spices.

Throughout the book, there are over a hundred delicious recipes that draw on the author’s personal taste and styles as well as the history of food that began life on the African continent.

Casablanca: My Moroccan Food

Morocco has long been a foodie destination and Morrocan mezze and tagine have become staples in restaurants across the world in recent years.

The beautiful country at the top of Africa lies on the border with Europe and the rest of the Arab world. This unique blend of cultures leads to some amazing recipes and cuisine — if you’re looking to master those Moroccon flavours and dishes, this Moroccan cookbook doesn’t disappoint.

There are a dazzling number of recipes in the book which draw on our favourite flavour combination — umami and sweetness. It’s something typical of African cuisine, and we truly can’t get enough.

We’d love to try out the sticky ras el hanout & peach short ribs; don’t they sound delicious! Moroccan food is, admittedly, a favourite of ours, and this book sounds like a perfect entryway to that delicious world.

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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook

Traditional African-American cooking has a wonderfully comforting and savoury flavour palate. This book goes into great detail about the rich and fascinating history that African-American cuisine has, adapting the recipes within it from a number of historical texts.

This cookbook has one-hundred-and-twenty-five recipes, all of which come together to paint a rich, powerful picture of the true history behind African-American cooking. This book can singlehandedly break down the image of soul food to reveal the much more interesting and culturally rich background that African-American cuisine has.

Tunisian Cookbook: Enjoy Authentic North-African Cooking in Tunisian Style with Delicious Tunisian Recipes

Tunisian cooking is another utterly unique style of food that simply hasn’t been revealed to the rest of the world in its complete majesty. This cookbook promises to reveal a number of different and delicious recipes to you, allowing you to dine on truly excellent and authentic Tunisian cuisine.

From the tomato and egg brunch favourite of shakshuka to the hearty stewed lablabi which will surely become a winter staple. Throughout the book, particular attention is paid to cooking simply and completely uniquely — everything you try is sure to amaze you.

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Through the Eyes of an African Chef

This is a wonderful book all about an extremely skilled chef rekindling their love for African cooking. Throughout the book, the chef writes about how they love the concept of returning to the soil for the freshest of ingredients, as well as reusing more traditional techniques which are just as useful and convenient now as they ever have been.

Throughout the book, there are a number of old favourites as well as unique and exciting new ways of practising, preserving, and upholding some of the finest culinary traditions in Africa.

No matter what your skill level is, you’re sure to enjoy exploring the African recipes in this book. It is aimed at people who have a deep love of cooking and food making it a perfect gift for yourself or the food lover in your life.

Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen

Ghanian cuisine has a long history of being relaxed, informal, and always delicious. This book has a number of enchanting recipes, all of which sound utterly incredible.

This book is ideal for those that are new to Ghanian cooking, it highlights how easy it can be to make food that is in line with African cuisine, while also ensuring that it’s utterly delicious. We particularly like the look of Nkruma (okra) tempura, which sounds wonderfully crispy, savoury, and satisfying.