Introducing the Cookbooks of November 2023!

Howdy cookbook fans!

And hello from chilly Austin. Apologies for this being a smidge late, this past week has been rather intense for me on a personal level and sometimes real life takes priority.

But the cookbooks keep on coming, and where there are fall cookbook releases, that’s where I’ll be, too. Things are starting to slow down a bit as we get closer to the holidays (maybe that’s why September and October were so nuts), but there are still some gems in this batch. Also! Since the list is short we can do allll the covers, for your viewing enjoyment. Here we go!

Today's issue of Stained Page News is brought to you by Hardie Grant North America and Preserved: Condiments and Preserved: Fruit, the first two titles in a series of six small books dedicated to the art of food preservation by Darra Goldstein, Cortney Burns, and Richard Martin. Packed with history, kitchen inspiration, and unabashedly delicious recipes, these books are a guide to new culinary adventures.

The Stained Page News November 2023 Cookbook Preview

• YouTuber (1m subscribers) and Instagrammer (248k subscribers) Danni Rose has written her first cookbook: Danni’s Juke Joint Comfort Food Cookbook, which is full of her signature recipes from her Southern family, including dishes served at her dad’s titular juke joint. Recipes include dishes like “Cheddar Pancakes with BBQ Pulled Pork, Daddy's Fried Cheese Grits, Cajun Deviled Eggs, Jack & Pepsi Slushies, Spatchcocked Whole Fried Chicken, Ole Skool Mac 'n' Cheese, Pot Likker Greens, [and] Church Lady Candied Apples.” Harvest, November 7.

  

• Journalist Mark Kurlansky takes a historical look at onions around the world in The Core of an Onion, along with 100 recipes and pen-and-ink drawings done by the author (!). Bloomsbury, November 7.

• Yossy Arefi is back to follow up her 2020 title Snacking Cakes with Snacking Bakes, a similar premise that is focused on bakes that are not necessarily cakes! Instead, you’ll get cookies, bars, brownies, loaves, and, you know, a few cakes. Cakes are great! Clarkson Potter, November 7.

  

• File under not-just-a-cookbook: Southern Fried Sass from ex-Drag Race queen Ginger Minj (written with Jenna Glatzer) has 50 recipes, and also advice for entertaining, decorating, and living fabulously. Atria, November 7.

  

• Maydān, from DC restaurateur Rose Previte (written with Marah Stets), explores “the flavors and overlapping foodways from across Lebanon, Morocco and Oman to the