Sarah Cronin | Rev. Diane Sullivan Nothing beats curling up with a good book somewhere cozy in the winter. That should be especially true this winter as we collectively hunker down and wait our turn for the coronavirus vaccines and for warmer, hopefully pandemic-free days ahead. But many of us have already plowed though our nightstand stacks over the past nine months of isolation, leaving us with a pressing question: What to read? Fortunately, Vermont authors have not stopped churning out fresh tales to keep us entertained, informed and enlightened this year. If anything, pandemic downtime appears to have delivered an abundance of new offerings. You ll find evidence of that productivity in the following pages.
Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax and his fudgy chocolate layer cake Cookbooks, at their simplest, are collections of pages filled with ingredients and instructions. But if we return to them often enough, they transform from prescriptive steps and grocery lists into something special. Sure, it s easy to google a recipe and pick the one touting its quick, easy steps especially this year, when cooking can feel like drudgery. But there s something deeply grounding about cracking a cookbook s spine and working from print: deciphering a recipe without the chorus of online comments, or returning to a process that s tried and true.
Our 10 favorite cookbooks in 2020
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Salade Blanche recipe from The French Laundry, Per Se by Thomas Keller.Deborah Jones / Deborah JonesShow MoreShow Less
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JW Chicken recipe from The Barbuto Cookbook by Jonathan Waxman.Jen Davidson / Jen DavidsonShow MoreShow Less
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Grilled Shrimp for Fajitas recipe from Houston s Tacos a Go Go from Serial Griller by Matt Moore.Andrea Behrends and Helene Dujardin / Andrea Behrends and Helen DujardinShow MoreShow Less
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Cover: Xi an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou.Abrams / AbramsShow MoreShow Less
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Dry Pot chicken recipe from Xi an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou.Jenny Huang / Jenny HuangShow MoreShow Less