Cookbooks worth reading – top lists from Atlantic Monthly, Eater and Serious Eats

What are some of your favorite cookbooks of the last year? Which cookbook or food memoir are you hoping to add to your collection? As a relatively new cook, I’m always looking for really good, thorough, useful (and beautiful) cookbooks.

Here are some top lists for the year (and for all time.) Any favorites in your kitchen library missing from these lists?

Eater:  The 21 Most Essential Cookbooks of 2014
The Atlantic: Best Food Books of 2014

Serious Eats: The Year in Cookbooks

Food52: Essential 10 cookbooks and why they still matter
Huffington Post:  The Best, Most Useful Cookbooks of All-Time