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This Month’s Best New Cookbooks: September 2013

Every month PBS Food highlights a handful of cookbooks that will be released during the month. This month’s batch looked too good to not have them grace our bookshelves.

Check Out the Cookbooks on Our List

OttolenghiOttolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Available: September 3rd, 2013 Available for the first time in an American edition, this debut cookbook, from bestselling authors Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi of Plenty and Jerusalem, features 140 recipes culled from the popular Ottolenghi restaurants and inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean. Buy at ShopPBS

Weelicious LunchesWeelicious Lunches: Think Outside the Lunch Box with More Than 160 Happier Meals by Catherine McCard Available: September 3rd, 2013 Easy, healthy, and fun lunch ideas for every age! Once kids walk out the door for school, all bets are off. Will your son toss the nutritious food you’ve included and jump right to the treats? Will your daughter trade her sandwich for her best friend’s prepackaged meal? Buy at ShopPBS

VedgeVedge: 100 Plates Large and Small That Redefine Vegetable Cooking by Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby Available: September 3rd, 2013 The most exciting vegetable cooking in the nation is happening at Vedge, where in an elegant nineteenth-century townhouse in Philadelphia, chef-proprietors Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby serve exceptionally flavorful fare that is wowing vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores alike. Buy at ShopPBS

Beating the Lunchbox Blues CookbookBeating the Lunch Box Blues by J.M. Hirsch Available: September 3rd, 2013 Tired of tussling with the kids over junk food lunch kits? When it comes to lunch, nobody has time to break out a recipe to bang out a brown bag special. Busy people need lunch ideas. And those ideas need to be healthy, fast, easy, affordable, and delicious. Buy at ShopPBS

Martha Stewart CakesMartha Stewart’s Cakes from the editors of Martha Stewart Living Available: September 24rd, 2013 A one-stop resource for cakes–birthday, chocolate, coffee, Bundt, upside-down, loaf, and more. From pound cake and angel food (with many variations) to genoise and streusel-topped, from comfort classics like red velvet, six-layer coconut, rich chocolate, lemon meringue, and cheesecake to sophisticated grown-up fare including chiffon cakes and tortes with luscious fruits. Buy at ShopPBS

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