Cookbook Suggestions from the Book House

Find out what’s cookin’ in cookbooks for this holiday season. Cheryl McKeon, manager of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, has nine recommendations for gifts or for getting ideas for entertaining. Her suggestions include: “The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2024” (America’s Test Kitchen, 2023); “The Food Lab” (J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt, 2015); “Start Here” (El-Waylly, 2023); “The World Central Kitchen Cookbook” (Andres, 2023); “Big Heart, Little Stove” (French, 2023); “Gullah Geechee Home Cooking” (Meggett, 2022); “Forest Feast Road Trip” (Gleeson, 2021); “Blueberries for Sal Cookbook” (McCloskey, 2023); and — for real — “Snoop Dogg Presents Goon with the Spoon” (Dogg & Stevens, 2023). Along the way we talk about the importance of independent stores to local economies and the ways the Book House supports community groups including Grassroot Givers and the Food Pantries for the Capital District. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.