Introducing the Cookbooks of December 2023!

Howdy cookbook fans!

And welcome to your December releases preview! I am…kind of shocked? To report that, after November’s sluggish showing, there are more books than I anticipated coming out this month! Normally publishers like to get their fall books on shelves well ahead of Christmas, but we’ve got a whole bunch of titles in this issue! Many of these are from publishers located outside the US—and accordingly, many of these have already been released in their countries of origin1—so perhaps that explains part of it.

So what have we here? A few vegan titles, including one that will help with your holiday party planning. Some baking books, some cocktail books (with and without alcohol), some celebrity chef books. A book that will help you make the beef Wellington of your dreams. And a book from an Italian chef that seems to be as much about cars as it is about food.

So let’s get into it, shall we?

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The Stained Page News December 2023 Cookbook Preview

• Any Vanderpump Rules fans out there? Reality star Ariana Madix is out with a follow-up to 2019’s Fancy AF Cocktails, but, um perhaps you heard there was a major…I cannot believe I am typing this word in SPN… “Scandoval” that means her new book focuses on the joys of drinking while single. (The first book was written with her ex, Tom Sandoval.) Single AF Cocktails offers 60 recipes for “high-drama cocktails,” but really aren’t all cocktails high drama if you drink enough of them? Clarkson Potter, December 5.

• Hell yeah throw a vegan party with Vegan Party Planning from YouTuber Nikki Vranjican aka NikkiVegan (164k subscribers). Recipes, strategies, and menu ideas for vegan party animals, or those who want to invite vegans to their parties. Yellow Pear, December 5.

• You know, I pride myself on being able to look at food photography