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The Ultimate Guide To Celebrity and TikTok Creator Cookbooks

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If you’re like us, you love watching cooking videos on TikTok! But so often, these saved recipes never make it out of our phones. Now you can bring the recipes you love IRL in your own kitchen! These cookbooks by celebrities and TikTok creators bring fun and good food to every meal of the day. Let’s get cooking!

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    Bad B*tch in the Kitch

    by Cassie Yeung

    Add some razzle dazzle to your home cooking with 80 recipes for your favorite Asian takeout dishes from culinary influencer Cassie Yeung. Not only can you save money by skipping takeout, but everything tastes better homemade, too. With Bad B*tch in the Kitch, you can confidently whip up classic noodles, stir fries, and soups whenever the craving strikes.
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    Craveable

    by Seema Pankhania

    Satisfy every craving — salty or sweet, comforting or spicy — with over 80 mouthwatering, flavor-packed recipes from the social media superstar behind Seema Gets Baked on TikTok. Drawing on Seema’s own voracious appetite, her travels around the world, and her culinary heritage, this collection of recipes will take you on a journey of flavor and leave you feeling very, very satisfied.
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    Something Delicious

    by Lindsey Baruch

    When learning to cook you’re often told to rely on your senses: Tasting as you go, listening for a sizzle when steak hits the pan. But in Something Delicious, Lindsey Baruch pushes you to use all five senses, noting what you should see or feel as you’re cooking. Her grandmother taught her to be present in the kitchen, and Lindsey’s tips for reading recipes, setting up a pantry, and creating memorable dishes will help you create decadent meals whenever you want. Whether cooking for a date night in, preparing a weeknight dinner, or choosing what pairs well for dining al fresco, this book has you covered for all meals of the day, ensuring something delicious will always end up on your table.
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    Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes

    by Jenné Claiborne

    Jenné Claiborne, the beloved author of Sweet Potato Soul, knows that vegans have more fun. Vegan Vibes offers 100 dishes that are almost as fun to make as they are to eat. That means laidback, whole food-based ingredient lists plus straightforward, no-fail techniques. Brimming with unexpected, flavorful dishes, Vegan Vibes invites you to fall in love with cooking and eating plants, in all their delicious diversity.
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    Pass the Plate

    by Carolina Gelen

    Wildly popular blogger and viral recipe creator Carolina Gelen presents 100 crowd-pleasing, effortlessly delicious recipes that showcase her simple-but-sophisticated style. Full of gorgeous photography and heartwarming stories about Carolina’s Romanian family, Pass the Plate will bring comfort to your kitchen and have friends and family asking for seconds.
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    Justine Cooks: A Cookbook

    by Justine Doiron

    Justine Doiron is known for approachable, inventive cooking that surprises with its unexpected flavor and ingredient pairings, as well as her love of vegetables, beans, bread, and farmers’ markets. She is also known on social media for her funny, inspiring, validating stories about the ways we connect through food. Here she shares 110 plant-forward recipes for salads, snacks, vegetables, seafood, and tofu plus beans, breads (as well as things to eat on or with bread), and dessert.
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    by Sarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn

    Learn Korean cooking alongside social media star Sarah Ahn as her umma passes down 100+ family recipes and decades’ worth of kitchen wisdom. The recipes are framed by mother-daughter conversations that are funny, profound, and universally relatable — plus all the food is backed by the recipe-testing power of America’s Test Kitchen. The Ahns understand that when generations come together in the kitchen, so much is shared: Not only food, but also knowledge, advice, family history, and love.
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    Every Day with Babs

    by Barbara Costello

    Everyone’s favorite grandmother is here to answer the age-old question “What’s for dinner?” with 101 tried-and-true recipes, plus genius tips and tricks that make getting dinner on the table even easier. Your family will soon be part of the clean plate club and you will be considered a virtual magician in the kitchen, too! Don’t panic, it’s easier than you think. Babs has you covered!
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    The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook

    by Meredith Hayden

    Inspired by years working as a chef in New York City and the Hamptons, as well as her childhood summers on Nantucket, Meredith Hayden makes food that is both unfussy and elegant — often with a touch of whimsy. In The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook, Meredith teaches you to cook like a professional hostess (and have fun while doing it). This is the kind of food to celebrate every season of life; the kind of cooking you don’t start until you’ve made yourself a drink first. Recipes range from 20-minute meals to show-stopping centerpieces, all fit for your next dinner party.
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    Martha: The Cookbook

    by Martha Stewart

    Martha Stewart celebrates her landmark 100th book with an intimate collection of 100 treasured recipes, along with stunning photos from her personal archives and the stories behind them. A must for anyone who has ever been inspired by the one and only Martha.
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    Cook Like a King

    by Melissa King

    In her debut cookbook, Top Chef All-Stars champion and award-winning chef Melissa King shares 120 of her favorite dishes, blending her California sensibility with the Chinese cuisine of her childhood. With stunning photography, personal stories, and expert guidance, Cook Like a King is a thoughtful, playful examination of the flavors that shape our lives.
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    Measure with Your Heart

    by Hannah Taylor

    Hannah Taylor is a culinary creator from Georgia known for her Southern charm, down-to-earth personality, and carefree “measure with your heart” cooking content. When Hannah began sharing her experimental cooking projects and snippets of her small-town life online, her platform exploded with support for her big-hearted spirit and off-the-cuff style, and her debut cookbook embraces this playful side of cooking. For Hannah, home cooking is not about being perfect — it’s about having fun and nourishing the ones you love.
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    Soju Party

    by Irene Yoo

    With Soju Party, food writer, chef, and co-owner of Brooklyn’s Orion Bar Irene Yoo has written the book on drinking like a Korean. In addition to recipes, Soju Party explores the history of Korean drinking, with illustrations explaining proper serving and drinking etiquette, drinking games, food pairings, and more. A book that promises late nights (don’t worry, there’s a section on hangovers!), this is a party on the page.
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    Party People

    by Brie Larson and Courtney McBroom

    Celebrate any occasion (really, any occasion!) with 100 creative recipes and endless ideas for your next party, from Academy Award-winning actor Brie Larson and former Milk Bar culinary director Courtney McBroom. They give you the tools to spark a new dining revolution in your home, one where connection takes center stage and entertaining is an afterthought. Now, go forth and party!
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    More Is More

    by Molly Baz

    It’s time to crank up the heat and lose the measuring spoons because the secret to cooking is hiding in one simple motto: MORE IS MORE. Learn to cook with confidence and unbridled joy in 100 big, bold, flavorful recipes from Molly Baz. With intoxicatingly delicious recipes, vivid photographs, and Molly’s one-of-a-kind playful guidance and whimsy, More Is More will inspire cooks to embrace a fearless mindset to level up their cooking — for life.
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    Bobby Flay: Chapter One

    by Bobby Flay

    This stunning cookbook collects 100 of the most timeless and seminal recipes from the first leg of Bobby Flay’s monumental career in one place, for the first time ever. Read the essays, absorb the photography, and most important, cook tantalizing dishes from this book. Bobby Flay has put decades of his daily work into these pages. The best part is: He’s just getting started.
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    Make It, Don’t Buy It

    by Matt Remoroza

    Make better food, spend less, and rediscover the joy of cooking. Make It Don’t Buy It invites you to stop ordering takeout and try your hand at making your favorite store-bought foods from scratch, with over 100 recipes for dishes that taste better and often cost less than their overpriced restaurant counterparts. Matt breaks down the ingredients, tools, and techniques you’ll need to discover for yourself how simple it can be to make restaurant-worthy meals at home.
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    Cooking Fast and Slow

    by Natalia Rudin

    A collection of over 100 simple, satisfying, plant-packed recipes that are low on effort but big on flavor, from Natalia Rudin, the viral creator behind Nat’s Nourishments. Filled with silky sauces, sweet treats, and morning delights, Cooking Fast and Slow takes simple ingredients and elevates them so that every meal feels special and tastes incredible.
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    My Mexican Kitchen

    by Eva Longoria

    A celebration of Mexican ingredients and traditions — plus 100 favorite recipes — from Eva Longoria. In My Mexican Kitchen, she embraces the techniques and flavors she discovered while hosting Searching for Mexico on CNN and brings them home to her Southern California kitchen. Eva’s genuine love for cooking and culinary-related history along with her pride for her heritage shine on every page of this beautiful, meaningful, and delectable cookbook.
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    Good Lookin’ Cookin’

    by Dolly Parton and Rachel Parton George

    You’re invited to pull up a chair to a year of meals, friends, and fun with the Partons, as Dolly and her sister (and favorite cook) Rachel share beloved, crowd-pleasing recipes and family stories. Good Lookin’ Cookin’ is a treasured cookbook that will make you feel like part of the Parton family. With their trademark warmth and sisterly love, Dolly and Rachel remind you that cooking doesn’t need to be serious — it should be fun! And always good lookin’!
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    Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy: A Cookbook

    by Tieghan Gerard

    Mega-bestselling author Tieghan Gerard is busier than ever — always creating recipes, taking photographs, and collaborating with friends. In her fourth cookbook, she returns with a collection of more than 120 recipes that reflect the way she cooks now: Simple ingredients, easy to get on the table, short on time yet big on flavor.
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