All the Cookbooks and Regular Books We Adored in 2018

I always figured it would be impossible to write a cookbook that covered the sheer diversity and nuance of India's regional cuisines. But in her book, Tiffin, Sonal Ved (the food editor of Vogue India) has done just that. My family is North Indian, and I've dabbled in cooking some South Indian food, but I found myself totally taken (in a good way) by how much I realized I didn't know about the country's cuisine. There are dishes in here that I truly can't wait to cook—clams cooked in coconut, cumin, and coriander from Goa, pumpkin-tamarind chutney from Nagaland, and a mango-chickpea flour soup from Gujarat—plus useful explainers about what defines the various regional cuisines. Tiffin, with its encyclopedia-like heft and colorful illustrations by Abhilasha Dwan, is my new coffee table fixture. It's the kind of book I'll keep picking up and referring back to, learning something new about Indian cuisine every time. – Priya Krishna , contributing writer

Buy it: Tiffin, $22 on Amazon.