# 12 Fall Cookbooks Worth Cooking From > Eater's fall list runs from Asian American croissants to Eastern European dumplings, with a divorce memoir in the mix. - Title: 12 Fall Cookbooks Worth Cooking From · Eater | Shortify - Summary: Eater's fall list runs from Asian American croissants to Eastern European dumplings, with a divorce memoir in the mix. This fall's best cookbooks reward the… - Keywords: cookbooks, baking, soup, fall, food writing, food, culture, Worth, Cooking, Eater - Source: Eater — https://eater.com/cookbooks-eater-at-home/985529/fall-2026-best-new-cookbook-preview - Author: Bettina Makalintal - Published: 2026-09-10T13:00:00+00:00 - Read time: 3 min - Topics: cookbooks, baking, soup, fall, food writing, food, culture ## Soup season starts now Tomatoes are ending, breezes are sharpening, and the appeal shifts from avoiding the stove to fogging up the windows with a bubbling pot. > Every good tomato suddenly prompts the pondering: Will this be the last one for the season? ## Twelve books, one season Eater picked 12 fall releases: border-crossing croissants, counter cakes, Dutch ovens of borscht and budae jjigae, plus a divorce reflection and a garden almanac. ## Bake Sum, out now Joyce Tang's Oakland bakery started as a 2020 pandemic pop-up and helped kick off the Asian American bakery wave with Spam-musubi croissants and ube pineapple buns. ## Chawanmushi quiche, okonomiyaki danish Tang bends cuisines on purpose. There are danishes in the style of aloo matar, the Indian dish of spiced potatoes and peas, alongside savory egg custard quiche. ## It eases you in The first recipe is a microwave mochi anyone can manage. Puddings and jellies come before cakes, and croissants wait until you have the technique to handle them. ## A cookbook about divorce Carla Lalli, formerly Carla Lalli Music of Bon Appetit, catalogues the end of her 24-year marriage alongside the recipes. The essays carry as much weight as the cooking. > you're here as much for the essays as for the recipes ## Recipes for bad days Loose, flexible dishes like "quick beans and rice for when the avocado is ripe" came out of a "separation summer" of eating alone after years of cooking for four. ## A garden almanac, not a cookbook Richard Christiansen's Flamingo Estate book detours through camellia history and Coco Chanel, then lands on January garden checklists and sage-leaf pasta. > Open up any random page for a little hit of magic ## India, loudly Meherwan Irani's book is built for parties: vada pav and dosa recipes that feed six, bold typography, and claims made to be argued with. > without question, the greatest sandwich of all time ## Foraging without the woods Alexis Nikole Nelson, Black Forager to nearly 5 million TikTok followers, shows what is edible in ordinary neighborhoods: acorns, linden fruit, magnolia flowers, knotweed. > Happy snacking. Don't die. ## Librae's four countries Dona Murad's New York bakery runs on her Bahraini, Indian, Portuguese, Persian and Copenhagen history. Rose-scented pistachio frangipane croissants, labneh and za'atar morning buns. ## Start with the mother dough Much of Librae asks you to get comfortable with croissant dough, enriched dough, or sourdough starter. Cookies and topped focaccia are the gentler way in. ## Korean soup, categorized Clara Lee and Eddo Kim chart guk versus tang versus jjigae versus jeongol, start with broth, then sort soups by speed, season and occasion. ## A whole winter of it Lee and Kim ran Queens, the San Francisco superette that closed in 2023. Their repertoire is deep enough to cook exclusively from through the cold months. ## Kay Chun's small upgrades Quick-marinated sardines on toast, calamari skewered gilda-style with fried peppers and olives, doenjang in the mustard vinaigrette. Weeknight food that is not boring. ## Tofu gets its own chapter Chun grills it and simmers it in soy with aromatics, wraps it in perilla and a tortilla, and crumbles it into pork breakfast sausages for moisture and protein. ## Fusion is good again Eric Sze of Wenwen puts peanut butter in his lu rou fan. He ate 60-plus bowls of the braised pork rice dish in one week, so he has earned the experiment. > strange addition of peanut butter ## Diversity chicken soup Sze's book runs on irreverence: zhajiang lasagna with pork and octopus, beef noodle soup burgers, and a soup made with three kinds of chicken including a goth Silkie. ## Baking, minus the fuss Caroline Schiff says skip the sifting and stop worrying about room-temperature eggs. Her giant chocolate chip cookie uses one bowl and no mixer. > there's always something sweet in [the] kitchen, no special occasion required ## Spoonable Eastern Europe Alissa Timoshkina's Lozhka covers mushroom stew brined with sauerkraut, Armenian lentil soup with prunes and walnuts, and dumplings filled, dropped and steamed. ## Key takeaway This fall's best cookbooks reward the cold months: pick a big baking project, a soup repertoire to work through, or a book that reads as well as it cooks.