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Our Favorite Mexican Cookbooks

Whether you are planning a fiesta to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, or just want to revel in the country's vibrant cuisine, we have all the recipes you need. From the traditional to the innovative, these four cooks bring their love of Mexico's food and culture to the fore.

Muy Bueno Fiestas

Muy Bueno Fiestas

Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack

Celebrate any occasion with this stunningly designed cookbook, featuring 100+ recipes for traditional and contemporary Mexican-inspired cuisine as well as DIY crafts that make every event a fiesta!
Barbacoa

Barbacoa

Brandon Hurtado

If you want to master the most deeply flavored barbecue on earth—and that, in a nutshell, is what Tex-Mex barbecue is—you cannot do better than to learn from a master like Brandon Hurtado with Barbacoa: The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue which promises a lifetime of smoke-infused flavor and deep enjoyment.
Claudia's Cocina

Claudia's Cocina

Claudia Sandoval

Celebrating the food of MasterChef Season 6 winner, Claudia Sandoval this cookbook is strongly influenced by her family’s Mexican roots, as well as the seafood restaurant her grandparents owned when she was a child. Throughout the show she demonstrated a bright, versatile range of flavors and always made family the center of her dishes.
Food from My Heart

Food from My Heart

Zarela Martínez

Containing more than 200 recipes, this book is a chronicle of the development of Zarela Martinez's cooking, describes her childhood and the foods of her family, the influences of other regions when she went away to school, and continues up to when she opened her own restaurant, Zarela

Recently added cookbooks

Recipe of the Day

Recipe of the Day

Swiss chard pie

The Food and Cooking of Peru

Flor Arcaya de Deliot

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"A new book on ckbk is always a good reason to test a recipe. This one is light, healthy, and I managed to get some freshly havested swiss chard today. Worth a try!" ckbk user, Luciana Corrêa

Author spotlight

Cheong Liew

Cheong Liew

Malaysian-born Cheong Liew moved to Australia in 1969 to study electrical engineering, but instead became a chef. He is widely regarded as one of the founding influences on modern Australian cuisine. Among other honours he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours, for 'service to the food and restaurant industry'.

Hiroko Shimbo

Hiroko Shimbo

Born and raised in Japan, Hiroko Shimbo is a sushi chef, restaurant consultant, culinary instructor, food writer and multi-award-winning cookbook author. Her books include The Japanese Kitchen and The Sushi Experience.

Justin Wilson

Justin Wilson

Cajun comedian, TV presenter, and cook Justin Wilson, was the star of three hugely popular PBS cooking series, in addition to his many best selling comedy albums. His legacy includes the recipes demonstrated on his TV shows, many of which are included in The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook.

Features & Stories

New Feature: I Cooked This

New Feature: I Cooked This

Keep track of what you have cooked with ckbk’s new I Cooked This collection. You can order the collection by the date you cooked it, by the star rating you gave the recipe, or in many other ways, so you have a full record of what you cooked when, and which dishes you enjoyed most.

Newsletter: 📚Celebrating Jennifer Brennan’s pioneering Thai cookbook + Journeying along The Route to Parsi Cooking🍛

Newsletter: 📚Celebrating Jennifer Brennan’s pioneering Thai cookbook + Journeying along The Route to Parsi Cooking🍛

‘This cookbook has been written to share the culinary journey of the Zoroastrians as they migrated from the Persian Empire to the shores of India. It summarises how Parsi food has been influenced by Persian cuisine but is distinctively different in its preparation. As the title suggests, it is just the route to an end—a beautiful way of being intertwined with different cultures while maintaining a clear identity of its own.’ Niloufer Mavalvala

Food photography with Rupa: Part 6 – Edit Like a Pro (Without Overthinking It)

Food photography with Rupa: Part 6 – Edit Like a Pro (Without Overthinking It)

Welcome back! We're now at one of the most anticipated parts of food photography, the edit. It’s where so many people think the magic happens. You’ll often hear the phrase “Oh, you can just fix that in the edit.” But I’m here to tell you: editing shouldn't be a crutch. It's not where the real magic happens. That starts in-camera. Editing is simply where we add the finishing touches. The sprinkle of sea salt. The drizzle of olive oil. A way to elevate the image, not disguise mistakes.

Behind the Cookbook: The Original Thai Cookbook

Behind the Cookbook: The Original Thai Cookbook

Max Tan is passionate about classic cookbooks and is on a mission to ensure that pioneering cookbook authors are not forgotten. In this feature, published to mark what would have been her 90th birthday, he celebrates Jennifer Brennan’s groundbreaking 1981 work, The Original Thai Cookbook, which is now available on ckbk.