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37 New International Cookbooks for the Traveling Home Cook

By Hannah Walhout
December 26, 2017
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Is there a traveler in your life who loves to eat? Are you always in search of the hole-in-the-wall cafes, local legend restaurants, and hidden-treasure dishes while on the road?

We've been savoring the dozens of beautiful international cookbooks that have hit the shelves in 2017, and there are more on the horizon that are sure to spice up the new year. Here are our favorite coffee-table-worthy tomes, packed with recipes from every corner of the globe — the easiest way to bring some of world's greatest food cultures home to your kitchen.
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A Table in Venice: Recipes from My Home

A table in Venice by Skye Mcalpine
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By Skye McAlpine
Clarkson Potter | March 2018

The blogger behind From My Dining Table has lived in this most romantic of Italian cities since her early childhood. In her forthcoming book, she shares her favorite Venetian recipes — some adapted from historic cookbooks, others inspired by the cultural crossroads to be found there.

To buy: $21, amazon.com

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Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food

Andina, The Heart of Peruvian Food, by Martin Morales
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By Martin Morales 
Quadrille | November 2017

Martin Morales, Chef-Owner at Andina, is arguably the most famous Peruvian chef in the U.K. His latest book (a follow-up to 2013's Ceviche, born from his first restaurant in Soho) is packed with healthy Andean recipes with a focus on vegetables and whole grains.

To buy: $25, amazon.com 

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Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand

Bangkok by Leela Punyaratabandhu
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By Leela Punyaratabandhu 
Ten Speed Press | May 2017

This gastronomic portrait of Thailand’s capital focuses on its multiple personalities: ancient city, cultural exchange, modern metropolis. Find iconic street foods, like satay, alongside lesser-known specialties with international touches, like Southeast Asian biryani with chicken.

To buy: $21, amazon.com

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Boragó: Coming from the South

Borago by Rodolfo Guzman
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By Rodolfo Guzmán
Phaidon | November 2017

Boragó opened in Santiago in 2006, and has since become a powerhouse in modern South American fine dining. Inside Chef Rodolfo Guzmán's new monograph, you'll find reflections on foraging, native Chilean ingredients, and the culinary experiments that made his restaurant famous.

To buy: $45, amazon.com

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Brae: Recipes and Stories from the Restaurant

Brae by Dan Hunter
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Dan Hunter
Phaidon | April 2017

What is Australian cuisine? Dan Hunter explores, ingredient by ingredient, at his modernist Melbourne restaurant Brae and in his latest book. Here he highlights indigenous flora and fauna in dishes like wallaby tartare.

To buy: $40, amazon.com

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Burma Superstar: Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia

Burma Superstar, by Desmond Tan and Kate Leahy
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By Desmond Tan and Kate Leahy
Ten Speed Press | March 2017

The chef behind the beloved Bay Area restaurants compiles the classic dishes of his birthplace in Myanmar, like the Tea Leaf Salad that has become one of his kitchen's most iconic offerings. Over 90 recipes cover a wide swath of the country's cuisine, which exists in a delicious liminal space between Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian culinary tradition. 

To buy: $22, amazon.com

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C is for Caribbean

C is for Caribbean, by Quadrille
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Recipes by Rukmini Iyer
Quadrille | August 2017

Quadrille's “Alphabet Cooking” collection is a favorite for its compact, encyclopedia-style volumes — the perfect pocket-sized introduction to some of the world's richest food traditions. The latest in the smartly-designed series is this primer on Caribbean cuisine, with 50 foundational recipes from jerk chicken to rum punch.

To buy: $8, amazon.com

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Catalonia: Spanish Recipes from Barcelona and Beyond

Catalonia, by Jose Pizarro
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By José Pizarro
Hardie Grant | October 2017

In this treatise on Catalan food, Chef José Pizarro covers the cosmopolitan tapas culture of Barcelona and the hearty, farm-driven dishes of the region's more rural and mountainous hinterland.

To buy: $24, amazon.com

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Chai, Chaat & Chutney: A Street Food Journey Through India

Chai, Chaat, and Chutney, by Chetna Makan
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By Chetna Makan
Mitchell Beazley | September 2017

For her second cookbook, this “Great British Bake Off” semifinalist drew on her travels around India to create easy at-home recipes for some of the country's best regional street foods. Inside, you'll find favorites from Jabalpur, her hometown in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, to Mumbai, where she lived for years before moving to the U.K. and beyond. Satisfy your sweet tooth with her first release, 2016's “The Cardamom Trail.”

To buy: $21, barnesandnoble.com

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Chinese Soul Food: A Friendly Guide for Homemade Dumplings, Stir-Fries, Soups, and More

Chinese Soul Food, by Hsiao Ching Chou
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By Hsiao-Ching Chou
Sasquatch | January 2018

Available for pre-order now, this compendium of comfort-food dishes — from Hsiao-Ching Chou, food journalist and former food editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer — focuses on simple, homestyle recipes with an introduction to basic Chinese ingredients and technique. You'll be making your own dumplings in no time.

To buy: $16.50, amazon.com

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Corsica: The Recipes

Corsica, The Recipes, by Nicolas Stromboni
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By Nicolas Stromboni
Smith Street Books | October 2017

Is it French? Is it Italian? Is it something else entirely? Nicolas Stromboni, a master sommelier who oversees the largest wine cellar on this semi-autonomous French island, investigates Corsican cuisine in his sumptuous first book. Inside: "citrus fruits, grapes, chestnuts, cheese, herbs, fish, seafood, and charcuterie" — we want to go to there.

To buy: $40, barnesandnoble.com

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Cuba: The Cookbook

Cuba, The Cookbook, by Madelaine Vazquez and Imogene Tondre
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By Madelaine Vázquez Gálvez and Imogene Tondre
Phaidon | June 2018

This forthcoming book, available for pre-order now, explores the many influences that have shaped today's Cuban home cooking, from indigenous Caribbean ingredients to the the Soviet impact of the island's tight alliance with the USSR.

To buy: $46, amazon.com

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Dalmatia: Recipes from Croatia's Mediterranean Coast

Recipes from Croatia's Mediterranean Coast, Dalmatia, by Ino Kuvacic
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By Ino Kuvačić
Hardie Grant | May 2017

This new book by Ino Kuvačić, chef-owner of Croatian restaurant Dalmatino in Melbourne, Australia, explores the Mediterranean cuisine of Croatia's enchanting Dalmatian coast. Feel like you're relaxing on the Adriatic with a rich array of seafood dishes, or exploring ancient cities with recipes influenced by the region's Byzantine, Venetian, French, Hungarian, and Ottoman past.

To buy: $25.50, amazon.com

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Feast: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip

Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip Feast, by Lindsay Anderson and Dana Vanveller
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By Lindsay Anderson and Dana VanVeller
Appetite by Random House | March 2017

Canadian cuisine is hard to define — even our Canadian Associate Editor, Siobhan, says, “there's not really a discernible identity. Canada has a constant identity crisis.” There isn't one Canada, but rather a tapestry of provinces, nations, and lifestyles that make up the Great White North. Driving across the country for 5 months, bloggers Lindsay Anderson and Dana VanVeller collected recipes and stories from “farmers, grandmothers, First Nations elders, and acclaimed chefs” to illustrate the diversity of Canadian cuisine today.

To buy: $19, amazon.com

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Hibiscus

Hibiscus by Lope Ariyo
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By Lopè Ariyo
HarperCollins | June 2017

Blogger and food consultant Lopè Ariyo was named The Observer’s 2017 Rising Star in Food for her work promoting and documenting Nigerian and West African cookery. The London-born, Lagos-educated chef's first book is full of classics (think jollof rice and ogi) and British-Nigerian fusion experiments like Kuli Kuli cod fish and chips.

To buy: $20, barnesandnoble.com

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Hong Kong Diner: Recipes for Baos, Hotpots, Street Snacks and More...

Hong Kong Diner, by Jeremy Pang
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By Jeremy Pang
Quadrille | October 2017

Hong Kong-raised chef and culinary instructor Jeremy Pang explores the culinary nooks and crannies of his hometown in this new cookbook. While home to 61 Michelin-starred restaurants and a celebrated fine dining scene, the food of the streets and the hole-in-the-wall restaurants of this vibrant food city are the focus of Pang's collection of easy, evocative recipes.

To buy: $15, amazon.com

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I Heart Rome: Recipes & Stories from the Eternal City

I Heart Rome, by Maria Pasquale
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By Maria Pasquale
Smith Street Books | October 2017

The food of the Eternal City tells the story of the land and the people: pastas in the tradition of the cucina povera, fried foods from the canon of Roman-Jewish cooking, cheese and legumes from the agricultural regions at the outskirts of the city. Here, Italian-Australian blogger and food writer Maria Pasquale — now starting her eighth year at home in Rome — dives in.

To buy: $26, barnesandnoble.com

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Igni: A Restaurant's First Year

Igni, A Restaurants First Year, by Aaron Turner
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By Aaron Turner
Hardie Grant | October 2017

IGNI, Chef Aaron Turner’s boundary-pushing restaurant in the small Southern Australian city of Geelong, has built a hyper-regional Australian menu dotted with indigenous ingredients and aussie wines. Turner reflects on his first year at the helm with this text — part cookbook, part memoir, with lush styling and photography.

To buy: $25, amazon.com

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Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond

Kaukasis, A Cookbook, by Olia Hercules
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By Olia Hercules
Weldon Owen | October 2017

Ukrainian-born chef Olia Hercules — who has cooked in prestigious kitchens like Ottolenghi, in London — has become somewhat of an evangelist for the cuisines of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Follow up her award-winning first cookbook, Mamushka, with this collection of recipes from a region that sits at the nexus of Persian, Russian, Levantine, and even more epic food cultures.

To buy $19, amazon.com

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Lisbon: Recipes from Portugal's Beautiful Southern Region

Lisbon, Recipes from the Heart of Portugal, by Rebecca Seal
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By Rebecca Seal
Hardie Grant | June 2017

Even if tickets to Lisbon aren't in your immediate future, you can still cook your way through the classic dishes of this ancient Portuguese city with this book — heavy on the chorizo, seafood, and stunning pictures of the photogenic cityscape.

To buy: $24.50, barnesandnoble.com

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The Malaysian Kitchen: 150 Recipes for Simple Home Cooking

The Malaysian Kitchen, by Christina Arokiasamy
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By Christina Arokiasamy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | March 2017

Chef Christina Arokiasamy, born in Kuala Lampur, draws on her experience as the first official Malaysian “Food Ambassador” to the U.S. for this foundational introduction to her country's cuisine. It's worth it just for the arsenal of indispensable sauces and sambals — a ubiquitous condiment of citrus-y chili paste.

To buy: $24.50, barnesandnoble.com

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Mouneh: Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry

Mouneh, Preserving Foods for the Lebanese Pantry, by Barbara Abdeni Massaad
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By Barbara Abdeni Massaad
Interlink | February 2018

Drying, jarring, fermenting — these are the processes that make up mouneh, the Lebanese agricultural tradition of food storage and preservation. In the newest U.S. printing of her nearly 600-page tome, Beiruti Barbara Abdeni Massaad collects old recipes and techniques that are in danger of being lost to the ages. For a charitable companion gift, consider Soup for Syria, a project she spearheaded with all profits going to refugee-focused nonprofits.

To buy: $45, amazon.com

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Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends

Night Market by Kris Yenbamroong
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By Kris Yenbamroong with Garrett Snyder
Clarkson Potter | October 2017

Like author Kris Yenbamroong's beloved Los Angeles restaurant, this cookbook is a party. The James Beard Award-nominated chef at NIGHT + MARKET mixes his Angeleno roots with the Thai concept of aharn glam lao, a style of drinking food meant to facilitate an optimal good time. The dishes that result? Spicy noodles, communal dips, hangover-preventing soups, and munchies galore.

To buy: $22.50, amazon.com

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Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen

Nopalito, A Mexican Kitchen by Gonzalo Guzman
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By Gonzalo Guzmán with Stacy Adimando 
Ten Speed Press | April 2017

The regional, ingredient-driven cooking that made Nopalito a San Francisco institution is now yours with Chef Gonzalo Guzmán’s new book. Try the delicate Tlalpeño-style chicken consommé and tangy Nayarita shrimp ceviche.

To buy: $19, amazon.com

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Our Korean Kitchen

Our Korean Kitchen, by Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo
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By Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo
Weldon Owen | April 2017

Korean food is trending, with new stateside openings like Baroo in Los Angeles and Cote in New York City. This primer from husband-and-wife Korean cooks Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo will help you jump in.

To buy: $35, barnesandnoble.com

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Oklava: Recipes From a Turkish-Cypriot Kitchen

Oklava, Recipes from a Turkish-Cypriot Kitchen, by Selin Kiazim
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By Selin Kiazim
Interlink | October 2017

Cyprus is a divided country, with an ongoing conflict between ethnically Turkish and Greek residents about sovereignty and national identity. Selin Kiazim is from the North, the Turkish region, and this heritage comes through in her hit Shoreditch restaurant Oklava. The cookbook of the same name — which translates, literally, to “rolling pin" — explores the Mediterranean-Middle-Eastern flavors of this contested region.

To buy: $30, amazon.com

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The Palestinian Table

The Palestinian Table, by Reem Kassis
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By Reem Kassis
Phaidon | October 2017

Jerusalem native Reem Kassis documents almost 150 recipes from her home country in her meticulously researched debut cookbook, each interspersed with essays and historical context. With many lacking a nuanced understanding about the daily lives of Palestinians, in Jerusalem and beyond, this book opens a meaningful door. “Reading and cooking from this essential book,” writes Anthony Bourdain in his dust-jacket endorsement, “will move you closer to understanding this complex, fascinating part of the world.”

To buy: $25.50, amazon.com

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The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles

The Pho Cookbook, by Andrea Nguyen
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By Andrea Nguyen
Ten Speed Press | February 2017

In this comprehensive guide, phở enthusiast and Vietnamese food expert Andrea Nguyen explores the many regional variations of this Southeast Asian country’s national comfort food. In addition to every variety of soup imaginable — including a quick chicken version you can make in a pressure cooker — you’ll also get recipes for sides and accompaniments like fried rice and Vietnamese iced coffee.

To buy: $15, amazon.com

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Rasika: Flavors of India

Rasika Flavors of India, by Ashok Bajaj, Vikram Sunderam, and David Hagedorn
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By Ashok Bajaj,‎ Vikram Sunderam,‎ David Hagedorn
Ecco | October 2017

The team behind Rasika, the award-winning restaurant in Washington, D.C., weave Indian classical tradition and chef-driven modernism into their colorful new book (with photographs so deliciously luxurious, just looking at an online preview will make you drool). Their recipes include best-sellers from the restaurant and new inventions from their experimental Indian kitchen.

To buy: $22, barnesandnoble.com

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Smörgåsbord: The Art of Swedish Breads and Savory Treats

Smorgasbord, The Art of Swedish Breads and Savory Treats, by Johanna Kindvall
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By Johanna Kindvall
Ten Speed Press | September 2017

An illustrated smörgåsbord handbook from Swedish artist Johanna Kindvall, perfect for prolific cooks and born entertainers. Learn how to create a comprehensive spread of nibbles, Scandinavian style, with recipes for curing your own trout, baking your own rye, and even infusing your own aquavit.

To buy: $10, amazon.com

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Sri Lanka: The Cookbook

Sri Lanka, The Cookbook, by Prakash K. Sivanathan and Niranjala M. Ellawala
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By Prakash K Sivanathan,‎ Niranjala M Ellawala 
Frances Lincoln | May 2017

Though separated from the Indian subcontinent by fewer than 50 miles of sea, Sri Lanka has a distinct cuisine that's widely unknown — with different ethnic groups, trading neighbors, and colonial influences coming to bear on the culinary canon. Here, Prakash K Sivanathan and‎ Niranjala M Ellawala (the couple behind London's successful Elephant Walk restaurant) introduce readers to vadas, hoppers, and more specialties from the island nation.

To buy: $21, amazon.com

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Supra: A Feast of Georgian Cooking

Supra, A Feast of Georgian Cooking, by Tiko Tuskadze
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By Tiko Tuskadze
Pavilion | June 2018

Georgia, a thumbprint nation squished between giants like Turkey, Russia, and Iran, has a convivial tradition of drinking and eating that focuses on rich cold-weather foods and wine, wine, wine. Now is the time to pre-order the latest book on the foods of the Caucasus, curated by the chef of London's Little Georgia, Tiko Tuskadze — born and bred in Tbilisi.

To buy: $27, amazon.com

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Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes

Tokyo New Wave by Andrea Fazzari
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By Andrea Fazzari
Ten Speed Press | March 2018

Japan, with 557 Michelin stars to its name, has the most refined and innovative restaurant scene on the planet. Tokyo is at the beating heart of this food-loving nation, and a new crop of young chefs are bending the rules and making their mark in a country where tradition and professional hierarchy still reign. In this forthcoming title, Tokyo-based photographer Andrea Fazzari profiles this next generation.

To buy: $40, amazon.com

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The Würst!: The Very Best of German Food

The Wurst by Otto Wolff
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By Otto Wolff
Smith Street Books | September 2017

German food is much more than meat and potatoes (though there's plenty of that, too). Take a tour through the country's famous pastries, pickle-y snacks, and rich sausage-making tradition with this introduction to Germany's best of the best. Don't forget the beer.

To buy: $20, barnesandnoble.com

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Yemek: Recipes from Istanbul

Yemek Recipes from Istanbul, by Isabel Lezmi, Lisa Rienermann, and Veronika Helvacioglu
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By Isabel Lezmi,‎ Lisa Rienermann,‎ Veronika Helvacioglu 
Weldon Owen | December 2017

Istanbul is a city at the center of the world, with overlapping cultural traditions from the Balkans, Anatolia, and beyond. It's also one of the world's most populous, with a patchwork of markets, street food vendors, and historic restaurants serving up so much more than Turkish delight and döner kebab. Discover this cosmopolitan food scene with design-heavy cookbook from cooks and photographers who know the city best.

To buy: $18, barnesandnoble.com

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Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen: Traditional Ghanaian Recipes Remixed for the Modern Kitchen

Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, by Zoe Adjonyoh
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By Zoe Adjonyoh
Mitchell Beazley | June 2017

The brains behind the popular West African pop-up restaurant in London, Zoe Adjonyoh intersperses classics, like jollof, plantains, and lots of grilled fish, with essays and mashup dishes like clove-spiced Ghanaian-Irish Scotch eggs.

To buy: $30, barnesandnoble.com

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The World Atlas of Street Food

The World Atlas of Street Food, by Carol Wilson and Sue Quinn
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By Carol Wilson and Sue Quinn
University of Texas Press | October 2017

For the globetrotting foodie who can't make up their mind — or doesn't want to.

To buy: $40, amazon.com

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