Going out to a favorite restaurant is one of life's great joys. It can also be joyful to bring a little piece of that magic home, mastering a special dish, keeping the memory of that meal alive and sharing it. Here are a few of our favorite restaurant cookbooks.
Packed with nourishing ingredients and naturally energising flavors, this collection brings together recipes designed to fuel busy days and active lifestyles. From sustaining breakfasts to satisfying plant-powered meals and wholesome snacks, each dish focuses on ingredients that deliver lasting energy as well as great taste. Whether you need a quick boost, a post-workout pick-me-up, or a wholesome meal, these power-packed recipes are designed to keep you going.
Andrew Ho is the co-founder and co-owner of restaurant Curry Boys BBQ. His cooking combines Southeast Asian and Texan cuisines, and focuses on the BBQ culture within each. His book Asian Smoke is written with Curry Boys co-founders Andrew Samia and Sean Wen.
After a career in PR and marketing, Florence Stanton turned to baking during lockdown, in part to heal her own relationship with food. She celebrates good food and self love, sharing her beginner-friendly recipes through her website Tasting Thyme, and in her debut cookbook Part Time Baker.
Howie Southworth is a food writer and cookbook author, known for his books that combine recipes and his love of travel. His books include Chinese Street Food, and Hemingway's Spanish Table--a journey through Spain following the culinary passions of the great American writer.
Lauren Ko is an artist, baker, and founder of popular Instagram account and website Lokokitchen. Her vibrant colors and attention to latticework are a unique signature style. Her work has been included in publications including Vogue, and Tasty, and her books include Pieometry and Bitter & Sweet.
Omid Roustaei is an Iranian-American chef and culinary instructor who now balances a career as a psychotherapist with his teaching and writing. He shares Iranian culture and traditions through cooking and storytelling, using the power of food to foster connections and serve as a gentle form of advocacy and activism.
Born and raised in Odesa, Maria Kalenska is a food writer. Her book Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook is an ambitious documenting of the recipes and stories of 100 Odesan families now living around the world.

In our latest feature, Louisa Clutterbuck from wild venison supplier Lean & Wild offers an introduction to some of the best ways to make the most of this healthy, sustainable and delicious meat. ckbk users in the UK can save 15% when ordering venison from Lean & Wild.

There are chefs who chase fame, and there are chefs who quietly reshape how food is cooked, served and understood. Shaun Hill belongs firmly in the latter camp. Across more than half a century, he has built a reputation not through spectacle, but through clarity: of flavor, of thought, and of purpose. Ramona Andrews caught up with him to look back on a magnificent career.

Easter—this year celebrated across the long weekend of April 3 to 6—is the Christian festival commemorating Christ rising from the tomb. A festival that has come to be symbolic of the beginning of Spring, with all its new life and green shoots—hence the abundance of eggs, lambs, bunny rabbits and chicks, including all those chocolate ones.

For Scottish chef Clare Coghill, spring is when the landscape around her on the Isle of Skye bursts with new life, and is the perfect time for foraging. As she puts it:
‘We call Spring ‘an t-earrach’ which literally means for plants to spring forth from the ground. And the ground is exactly where I look when I start foraging for the year.’

Chef Clare Coghill runs Café Cùil on the Isle of Skye. She is a native, born and bred on the Scottish island, where her family have run a hotel for more than 100 years. Skye is blessed with ane exceptional range of seasonal local produce, and at Café Cùil, Clare and here team make the most of this, including foraging for wild ingredients which grow locally. If you have never tried a wild gorse flapjack (or latte) you don’t know what you are missing.
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