Restore body and mind after the party season, and give yourself and your family energy for the year ahead, with recipes packed with goodness. Plants are nature's richest bounty, and these four books are full of ideas and recipes with maximum taste and nourishment. Happy and healthful New Year all!
To keep that New Year's resolution goal, do away with heavy dinners in favor of tasty and just-filling enough salads.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
Bo Corley began his cooking journey due to a personal health crisis. His determination to eat well and feed his family with nutritious food that is easy to prepare resulted in his journey to cookbook author and food content creator. Dinner in One Take, published in 2024, is his debut cookbook.
Cookbook author Anna Stanford is a home cook and mother of three, on a mission to share her experience of cooking for a family, and create recipes that are approachable and appealing to all. Her book, Anna's Family Kitchen, is packed with tips and guidance for the busy family cook.
Food journalist Jesse Valenciana is a reporter and columist for The Takeout, and appears on local and national television in the US. He is a champion of Mexican food, and other Hispanic foods of the Americas. His book Birrias: 65 Recipes from Traditional to Modern focuses on Mexican home cooking, and the classic birrias stews at the heart of it.
Judi Rose is a food writer, author, and culinary educator based in London and New York, and daughter of legendary chronicler of Jewish food Evelyn Rose. Her books include two written with her mother, with whom she cooked for decades, and her 2020 book To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written with her cousin Jackie Rose.
Tony Custer is a Peruvian businessman and philanthropist with a passion for the gastronomy of his home country. His books, The Art of Peruvian Cuisine 1 & 2, bring together the culinary talents of many of Peru's most celebrated chefs, and show the excellence and range of Peru's food scene.
Cookbook author Suki Pantal was born and raised in India, moving to the UK at the age of 36. She founded Suki's Curries and Spices, on a mission to bring real tastes of India to other curry lovers. A Punjabi Sikh, chicken is a core part of her eating culture, something that she shares in her 2025 book No Worries, Just Chicken Curries.

It’s a wrap for 2025! Another year of milestones for ckbk, including adding the 1,000th cookbook to our ever-growing online collection. Thanks to all the ckbk users, authors and publishers who have helped us along the way. Below we present a list of the books and recipes which have been used most through the year via the ckbk website and app.

To all of you, a gigantic thank you for being with us along the way in 2025, we appreciate every one of you, your wonderful comments, the recipes you try and share with us, your place in our food-loving community. Thank you.
As we finish up the mince pies, and lunch on turkey sandwiches, we turn our thoughts to New Year’s Eve, what to make for the party of the year, and what to raise a glass of.

Christmas pudding is that once a year treat, rich in sweet fruits, seasoned with spice and more than its fair share of brandy, and everyone looks forward to it. Unless, of course, you don’t. It you are one of the naysayers, never fear, we’ve got a recipe for that. Your Christmas table will nonetheless be graced with a pudding to thrill them all, fitting of the annual feast.

Jewish food is as rich and varied as the many communities worldwide who have developed their own traditions, and evolve them today. As we publish Judi Rose’s feature on Hanukkah, we are delighted also to highlight the addition of her latest book to ckbk. In To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written together with her cousin Dr Jackie Rose, Judi combines aspects of a nutritious Mediterranean diet with Jewish culinary traditions, taking inspiration from her mother's recipes.

To mark the recent arrival on ckbk of To Life! by Judi Rose, daughter of legendary Jewish food writer Evelyn Rose MBE, we asked Judi to share some of her favourite family memories, recipes and traditions for this month’s Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights. Don’t miss her family potato latke recipe!
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