The Buttery Miso Vegemite Noodles, all glossy and salty, get a sharp tang from a pile of grated cheddar cheese and come together in a minute. McKinnon has a special knack for food that’s excellent for families, but isn’t anywhere near dull. McKinnon, who grew up in Australia to Chinese parents and now calls Brooklyn home, calls the food third-culture cooking: “a cross-pollination of ideas and techniques that are grounded in my Chinese heritage, yet greatly influenced by growing up in the Western world.” In To Asia, With Love, I found a nearly greedy amount of those sure hits.

Just make her miso-laced squash ramen or deliciously charred cabbage steaks and you’ll understand why that is. We cannot publish a Hetty McKinnon recipe without it winding up as the most popular recipe of the week. Crisp, turmeric-stained skin, juicy, yogurt-marinated meat, and a smear of garlicky toum, its bite softened by orange blossom water: this chicken somehow has it all.

It’s hard to improve upon a simple roast chicken, but the Turmeric Chicken With Toum, conceived for an easy dinner party, might just edge out your fallback recipe. Bavel is based loosely around the chefs’ Middle Eastern Los Angeles restaurant by the same name-a place where our senior editor Maggie Hoffman says she “had one of the best meals of all time.” I say loosely because Bavel the cookbook gets much of its strength from the family recipes dotted throughout, the ones that sustain the chefs in their busy day-to-day life. Not so with Bavel, the latest cookbook by pastry chef and chef duo Genevieve Gergis and Ori Menashe, alongside writer Lesley Suter. Often chef’s cookbooks, while gorgeous, prove tricky and fussy for the home cook. Bavel by Ori Menashe, Genevieve Gergis, and Lesley Suter This list is the best of the season we're sure there's a book here that will help every cook find fresh ideas to cook their way through this spring. There are superlative baked goods, flavorful dumplings, and a crème caramel for one. These 11 books have no-nonsense weeknight stuff and the decadent stuff of future meals with friends. Below you’ll find the books that proved themselves in our kitchens-and got us excited to make dinner again. Right now even the most ardent cooks feel weary of their kitchens, so as we waded through this spring’s hundred or so new cookbooks, we were searching for inspiration.

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