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Are you still searching for the perfect way to tell your Mom that you care? Skip the predictable flowers and chocolates this year and consider treating Mom to something she can savour long after her one special day—a beautiful new cookbook. If Mom is a salad enthusiast, a home baker, an aspiring sourdough artist or an Italian food lover, this season’s standout cookbook releases offer inspiration for every kind of kitchen. From Angela Liddon’s vibrant plant-based bowls to Christine Flynn’s effortless entertaining, Rachel Pardoe’s stunning sourdough creations and Stanley Tucci’s beloved family recipes, these delicious page-turners are thoughtful gifts that celebrate the joy of cooking, sharing and creating memorable meals.
Oh She Glows Salads by New York Times Bestselling Author Angela Liddon
Once the warmer weather arrives, we start thinking about summer with thoughts of wearing shorts dancing in our heads. It’s also when we often think about preparing lighter meals, including salads for lunch or dinner. Here’s the good news–New York Times bestselling author Angela Liddon will up your salad game with her new book, Oh She Glows Salads, Get Glowing: Protein-Packed Plant-Based Salads for Every Season.
Angela Liddon is the founder behind the award-winning site ohsheglows.com. Her debut book, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, was recognized as Indigo’s Book of the Year in 2014. Her book Oh She Glows Every Day made the New York Times and the Globe and Mail bestseller lists while Oh She Glows for Dinner earned a Taste Canada Award.
In her latest book, Liddon, from Calgary, Alberta, presents a new collection of over 100 salad recipes designed to help you get that glow. No boring salads here. This book is brimming with great recipes broken down into seasonal chapters (Spring and Summer plus Fall and Winter), Protein Toppers, Dressings and Flavour Boosters and there’s even adesserts chapter. Additionally, you will find Tips and Tricks to Create Crave-Worthy Salads That Will Impress Everyone, How to Create Irresistible Salad Dressings, A Guide to Greens and More.
A few favourites recipes include Glow Up Pesto Dream Bowl; Roasted Chickpea and Parm Romaine Crunch; Sunflower, Ginger and Lime Crunch Salad; Sunny Day Charred Corn and Feta Salad, Fiery 10-Spice Roasted Potato Salad and more. Big time glowing reviews for Oh She Glows Salads—so many great salad recipes, it surely will inspire readers to eat more salads—even every day!
Excerpted from Oh She Glows Salads by Angela Liddon, copyright ©2026 by Glo Bakery Corporation. Front cover and interior photos by Angela Liddon. Reproduced with special arrangement with the Publisher. Published by Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. All rights reserved.
Easy Does It: Smart Techniques and Simple Recipes for Stunning Food by Christine Flynn
The title speaks for itself when it comes to the benefits of Easy Does It: Smart Techniques and Simple Recipes for Stunning Food by Christine Flynn. The book is packed with almost 100 (98) easy yet delicious recipes that are so stunning they will certainly impress your family and friends.
Christine Flynn is a celebrated cookbook author, recipe developer and content creator from Nova Scotia who graduated at the top of her class from the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan. She has worked in kitchens across the globe, from Burgundy to Nantucket.
Flynn shares her decades of restaurant experience in Easy Does It (her third cookbook), “boils it down” to simple strategies that home cooks can use to enhance their culinary skills and confidence.
These are simple recipes with tips to save you time and money without sacrificing flavour or style. As stated in the press release: “It’s about doing more with less—less effort, less time, less fuss, and less waste.” There are plenty of tips for making a simple dish stand out (one tip is to start with a great sauce).
With recipes for breakfast to dinner, a few must-try recipes include Roasted Chicken with Pomegranate, Jammy Blueberries with Lemon Dumplings, Braised Beef with Vinegar and Peppers, Braised Beef Nachos, Skillet Eggs with Red Pepper Butter and more.
Easy Does It will have readers making delicious, awe-inspiring recipes in no time. Meals that look so “stunning” you will want to take a photo or two to post before devouring them.
Excerpted from Easy Does It by Christine Flynn. Copyright © 2026 by Christine Flynn. Photography by Suech and Beck. Published by Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
Sourdough Everything: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Beautiful Breads and Other Bakes by Rachel Pardoe
During pioneer times, baking bread was a necessity of life. In more modern times, it seems that the making homemade bread craze started again out of necessity during the COVID 19 pandemic. The no-knead artisan bread method has become popular and remains so to this day. Mastering sourdough bread making also took hold with many cooks caring and feeding their ‘starter’ with loving care. Whether you are new to sourdough bread making or have mastered this skill, Rachel Pardoe’s new book Sourdough Everything: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Beautiful Breads and Other Bakes is a must-have book.
Rachel Pardoe is a Canadian sourdough influencer and founder of @sourdough_enzo. She is renowned for creating breads that are not only delicious but also look as good as they taste. Although making sourdough bread may seem daunting, on the book jacket Pardoe states: “Creating amazing sourdough is deceptively simple—it’s part science and part craft—but it all starts with three basic ingredients: flour, water, and salt. And the result is something truly magical.”
That magic comes to life in Pardoe’s recipes, paired with gorgeous photos by Marianne Rothbauer. This hefty hardcover covers all the basics, from making your own sourdough starter and feeding your starter, to tools and techniques, proofing and shaping, and finished products. This includes making basic, enriched and sweet sourdough breads to using sourdough discard to make bread, scones, focaccia, bagels, waffles, muffins, cookies and more.
A standout chapter is called “Decorating Sourdough Breads,” where Pardoe shows readers how to use bread-decorating tools to score the bread and create artistic patterns. She also demonstrates how to decorate with stencils, how to create seed designs and how to master three-dimensional paint designs that look so impressive you won’t want to eat your work of art (but you must!)
From mastering basic sourdough loaves to showy three-dimensional loaves, Rachel Pardoe’s Sourdough Everything will have you turning out bakery-style loaves and treats in no time! This is a terrific book for all bread makers.
Excerpted with special arrangement with the Publisher from Sourdough Everything: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Beautiful Breads and Other Bakes by Rachel Pardoe. Copyright © 2026 Rachel Pardoe. Photography by Marianne Rothbauer. Recipe and photo for Fluffy Chocolate Babka excerpted with special arrangement with the Publisher. Published by DK Publishing, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
The Tucci Cookbook by Stanley Tucci with Joan and Stan Tucci, Gianni Scappin and Mimi Taft
It seems that Stanley Tucci is everywhere these days: co-starring in the latest version of The Devil Wears Prada alongside Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt and hosting his own TV food/travel show called Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. So when I came across The Tucci Cookbook, I just had to get a copy.
The Tucci Cookbook is written by Stanley Tucci with Joan and Stan Tucci, Gianni Scappin and Mimi Taft. What’s truly special is that, according to a note in the front of the book, the author is donating 10% of his advance and 25% of any of his subsequent earnings from the book (in each case net of agency fees) to the Food Bank for New York City.
Following a preface by Stanley Tucci and an introduction to the Tropiano and Tucci families, the book includes chapters on Appetizers and Salads, Soups, Eggs, Bread and Pizza, Pasta, Rice and Risotto, Vegetables and Side Dishes, Meat, Poultry, Fish and Seafood and Desserts. You will discover page after page of delicious recipes, personal notes and stories by Stanley Tucci along with suggested wine pairings.
How good do these recipes sound? “Clams Baked in the Half Shell, Venetian Seafood Salad, Rosemary Focacccia, Linguine with Capers and Olives, Asparagus Risotto, Steak Oreganato, Roman-Style Meatloaf, Chicken Cacciatore, Livia’s Tiramisu….the yumminess goes on! Several are family recipes, passed along from a generation or more.
In the introduction, Tucci says: “Throughout my childhood, almost every night in the middle of dinner, my father would shake his head and ask, ‘What does the rest of the world eat?” That’s how good my mother’s cooking has always been—to my dad, it was inconceivable that anyone could possibly eat as well as we did. And I agreed with him every time.”
If you want some mouthwatering recipes to wow your family and friends, look no further than The Tucci Cookbook, available at bookstores everywhere or on Amazon.
Excerpted from The Tucci Cookbook by Stanley Tucci with Joan and Stan Tucci, Gianni Scappin and Mimi Taft. Copyright © 1999, 2012 by Joan Tropiano Tucci and Gianni Scappin. Recipes previously published in Cuccina & Famiglia. Photography by Franceso Tonelli. Published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.
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