The 32 Best Cookbooks Of 2020

If the beyond stunning cover isn't enough to entice you, please know that the book is filled with educational fun; each recipe focuses on a cake with one central and deliciously treated fruit component. Blood Orange Bee Sting Cake, anyone?

Jessie James Decker is sharing her family's favorite recipes in her new cookbook Just Feed Me. It includes foods like a grilled watermelon salad pizza, fluffy pancakes, and strawberry Greek yogurt pops. To top it all off, her husband Eric Decker posted a nude photo on Instagram to promote her book and, well, the internet had a field day.

Gorgeous cover aside, East is packed with vegan and vegetarian dishes inspired by the East Asian and South East Asian cooking. Everything fits into a plant-based diet: chard, potato, and coconut curry; kimchi pancakes, dairy-free black dal and chili tofu, even no-churn Vietnamese coffee ice cream.

Kristin Cavallari's upcoming cookbook True Comfort features over 100 gluten-free recipes that play on traditional comfort foods. Some of the dishes included are chicken ragu and carrot cake pancakes.

This book is perfect for those who are totally new to the plant-based meat game to those who eat so many Impossible burgers they need some new recipes. There are more than 40 recipes in the book: Greek salad, tzatziki, and grilled pitas. Lomo saltado. Burger toppings. It's all here. Plus, for each Impossible: The Cookbook sold on Amazon in 2020, $3 will be donated to No Kid Hungry.

The reality is, you've probably made tens of Melissa Clark recipes over the years without even realizing it. The New York Times food writer has been publishing approachable, delicious meals for years. In this book, her recipes are exclusively French-inspired and while they may not all be suitable for weeknight go-tos, they're sure to inspire your weekend meals for years to come.

Not only is this a great jumping off point for all those interested in exploring vegan cuisine, but it's also brought to you by Bryant Terry, a renowned food justice activist whose work has long been admired by his colleagues. He organized the recipes by ingredient, making the book all the more lovely to sift through.  

Teresa Lust has lived just about everywhere you've dreamed of living one day, and she is generous enough to walk you through each of those places. Come for the real Italian breadstick recipe, stay for the super regional alcoholic Italian desserts.  

You understand why a book like this might be in such high demand at a time like this, yes? Yeeeah. This one's for all those who are looking to grow and maintain something beautiful in an otherwise not-so-beautiful time.

This tome from nutritionist to the stars, Kelly LeVeque, technically comes out in 2019 (on December 30), but chances are you won't crack it open until post-NYE in 2020. It comes with four 21-day meal plans for every archetype: Red Carpet Ready, Girl on the Go, The Domestic Goddess, and The Plant-Based Devotee. You'll also find the practical information you've always wanted to know, like which protein powder is best for you and how to use chia seeds.

Might I remind you Joanna Gaines's first cookbook was quietly on bestseller lists for months and months? Her second is bound to be even better. 

Michelin-starred chef Hooni Kim's very first cookbook is one you'll return to each time you want something simple and soul-fulfilling. Each recipe hits hard on the umami you crave on days where you need a pick-me-up...and that's before you get to the kimchi.  

You knew it was only a matter of time until we were seeing cookbooks full of CBD recipes, yes? Well, my friends, that time has come and it is...extremely chill and relaxing. Enjoy it! 

What better time to go all in on cooking with your kids? Food Network Mag did all the work for you: More than 150 kid-friendly recipes are bound up into one colorful, playful book you and your little ones will have so much fun working your way through for the rest of the year. 

Perhaps this is a bit less of a cookbook and more of a poetic journey interspersed with cooking bits, but it's also beautiful and emotional and complicated and an interesting way to mix up your collection of, well, cooking-forward cookbooks.  

I'm sorry, were you hoping this list didn't include a "meat-centric" cookbook from a bonafide meat expert? Psh! Nancy Silverton is a queen, and we should all be so lucky as to learn from her meat-tastic wisdom.  

 Who wouldn't want to cook guided by the motto "if what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing?" Each and every one of these comfort food recipes (which are interspersed with Bob Ross paintings, of course!) will bring you the happiness he spoke of.

Those who know Haile Thomas are obsessed with her. Those who don't...well, welcome! She's the  youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in America and has so kindly put together an incredibly powerful, activism-driven vegan cookbook for you to get to know her better.