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Have a Nourishing New Year

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!

Wholesome

Wholesome

Sarah Graham

The 100-plus recipes from food blogger Sarah Graham are based on ‘delicious, close-to-the-earth whole foods’ (including plenty of grains such as millet and teff) that are low in gluten, refined carbs and sugars, organically grown and aimed at being friendly to the gut. There are no calorie counts (“eat well, and eat moderate portions,” advises the author), and recipes are simple to follow.
Plant Feasts

Plant Feasts

Frankie Paz

Plant-based cooking meets self-care in this cookbook that brings community and connection back to meal times - these delicious plant-based recipes are easy, beautiful and deeply nourishing. Born from a journey of overcoming addiction, this is a cookbook like no other, offering easy, plant-based recipes as a gateway to nature, community and self-discovery.
Veg-table

Veg-table

Nik Sharma

Nik Sharma, blogger at A Brown Table, Serious Eats columnist, and author of the bestselling cookbooks The Flavor Equation and Season, brings us his most cookable collection of recipes yet in Veg-Table. Featuring more than 100 of Nik's gorgeous and evocative photographs, as well as instructive illustrations, this cookbook perfectly balances beauty, intellect, and delicious, highly cookable recipes.
Healthy in a Hurry

Healthy in a Hurry

Karen Ansel and Charity Ferreira

Good-sense nutritional advice from registered dietician Karen Ansel and tempting recipes from cookbook author Charity Ferreira combine for a healthy-eating book that deserves its place on the bookshelf. Recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, sides and flavorsome fruit-based desserts are made with fresh, unprocessed foods and are quick to put together.

Recently added cookbooks

Recipe of the Day

Recipe of the Day

New Year’s Day Steak Pie

The Hebridean Baker: Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands

Coinneach MacLeod

"Having a steak pie on New Year’s Day is as much a Scottish tradition as drinking whisky at the Hogmanay cèilidh the night before! Serve with root vegetables and mashed potatoes – then enjoy a meal guaranteed to get your New Year off to the perfect start!" Coinneach MacLeod

Author spotlight

Bo Corley

Bo Corley

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.

Anna Stanford

Anna Stanford

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.

Jesse Valenciana

Jesse Valenciana

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.

Features & Stories

ckbk's Best of 2025: Your favorite books and recipes

ckbk's Best of 2025: Your favorite books and recipes

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.

Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁

Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁

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.

Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄

Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄

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.

Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃

Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃

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.

Recipes to celebrate Hanukkah

Recipes to celebrate Hanukkah

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!