Stark Library spotlights new cookbooks, including one from Robert Downey Jr.
Check it out! These new cookbooks celebrate Diversity Month, Earth Day and National Library Week. All are available through the Stark Library.
Diversity Month
"Eating From Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-cooked Favorites From Cultures Around the World," by Maya Feller.
The cookbook is a love letter to the globe that celebrates flavorful dishes from cultures around the world. A registered dietitian and nutritionist known for her approachable, real-food-based solutions, Maya Feller highlights the nourishing roots of foods from regions including the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean. She shares thoughtful and realistic ways to think about how we relate to healthy foods, along with nutrition highlights and tips.
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"The Global Pantry Cookbook," by Scott Mowbray and Ann Taylor Pittman.
This definitive cookbook from two James Beard Cookbook Award-winning authors teaches readers how to combine dozens of super-powered pantry items from around the globe − from aji amarillo to gochujang, Banyuls vinegar to za'atar − with proven test-kitchen techniques to build maximum flavor with minimal effort.
"Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts," stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks, by Krystal Wilkinson.
A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and 40 comforting recipes from the poet laureate of Kentucky. Forty recipes rooted deep in the past yet full of contemporary flavor are brought to life through photography and illustrations. You'll find favorites such as corn pudding, chicken and dumplings, jam cake and Praisesong biscuits woven into the narrative of Wilkinson's family, portraying the experience and history of Black Appalachians.
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Earth Day
"Cool Food," by Robert Downey Jr. and Thomas Kostigen.
What we eat matters − to us and to the planet. Cool Food is a game-changing new category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. The celebrity cookbook will show you how to make simple choices, starting today to help reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Packed with eye-opening information and action you can take, the book offers ideas and humor.
National Library Week
"The Little Library Parties: 50 Recipes to Share With Friends," by Kate Young.
In "Little Library Parties," Kate Young draws on all of her experience catering for weddings and other events, and her love of cooking for friends, with 50 new recipes for entertaining. From dinner party feasts and canapés for a crowd, to barbecues and tea parties and that all important morning-after tonic, Young provides delicious recipes to share with those you love.
"The Little Library Year: Seasonal Cooking and Reading," by Kate Young.
"The Little Library Year" takes you through 12 months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. In this eBook are frugal January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read, as well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read to hand. "Beautifully photographed throughout, "The Little Library Year" is full of seasonal recipes, menus and reading recommendations.
Reach Bev at bshaffer@gannett.com or 330-580-8318.
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