This year the holidays coincide with my moving to a place with an actual kitchen, and I’m looking forward to being able to enjoyably cook again—and spend Sunday afternoons baking, too, during the long winter of hunkering down ahead. Is it any coincidence that the cookbooks I want most out of this list are in fact baking books? Probably not.
For those in your life in need of some old-fashioned comfort, for the home chef and the novice looking to take on winter culinary projects, and for lovers of cookbooks that are as much objects of beauty as they are instructional, here are 10 new titles from the year to tie a bow on and gift.
N.B.: We’ve linked to Bookshop throughout and encourage sourcing from independent bookstores this season, too.
![a favorite on my list: pie for everyone: recipes and stories from petee&am 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pie-for-everyone-book-cover-733x471.png)
![yotam ottolenghi\2\17;s latest cookbook, flavor (\$3\2.\2 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/flavor-ottolenghi-book-cover-733x444.png)
![a good bake (\$36.80), by master baker (and former chemical engineer) meli 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a-good-bake-book-cover-733x433.png)
![a fitting gift for this year: the charming serving new york (\$35)&#x 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/serving-new-york-book-cover-733x433.png)
![we\2\17;re coveting somali chef hawa hassan\2\17;s collection,&#x 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/in-bibis-kitchen-book-cover-733x464.png)
![coconut and sambal: recipes from my indonesian kitchen (\$3\2.\20) b 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/coconut-and-sambal-book-cover-733x476.png)
![for the veggie forward cook in your life, there\2\17;s east: \1\20 vegan 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/east-book-cover-733x461.png)
![another cookbook with simple but transformative plant based recipes: veget 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/vegetable-kingdom-book-cover-733x428.png)
![cook through the effortless but elegant recipes in susan spungen\2\17;s 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/open-kitchen-book-cover-733x424.png)
![not so much a cookbook as a series of essays, fäviken: 40\15 days, beginni 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/faviken-book-cover-733x468.png)
More cookbooks we love from years past:
- Holiday Gift Guide 2019: 11 Cookbooks to Wrap and Give
- Holiday Gift Guide 2018: The 11 Best Cookbooks to Give as Gifts This Year
- The Best Cookbooks for Holiday Gifts 2017
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