Cookbooks

This combination of  watermelon juice, pisco, and black currant liqueur will take you to the glossy world of a “Barbie Girl.”

Like a well-worn shirt, this rum, rye, and coffee cocktail has the right balance of moody and vibrant.

Yes, you can make shatteringly crispy imperial rolls by blasting them with heat in the oven or an air fryer.

This recipe, with browned butter for nutty notes, straddles both sides of the savory-or-sweet cornbread debate.

The Carondelet is built on the flavor template of a Ramos gin fizz—the notoriously laborious New Orleans classic—but artfully reimagined without the dairy and egg white.

Hailing from the historic New Orleans restaurant La Louisiane, this spiritous cocktail is a less-vaunted member of the Southern cocktail canon.

This fun twist on zucchini bread is covered in a buttery Cinnamon Toast Crunch topping.

A flavored salt ground with cilantro, mint, and various spices. 

Our favorite recipe for strawberry-rhubarb pie gets a crumb topping with cinnamon and brown sugar and a flaky, buttery bottom crust for the best of both worlds.

These fruit-laden muffins smell exactly like hot cross buns as they bake and taste just as satisfying, but with a fraction of the effort.

This is a wonderfully forgiving recipe to scale up and down—you can halve it to make a dozen cupcakes, or double it to make four 6-inch loaves.

The combination of flavors and textures in this chicken khao soy (also spelled khao soi), which marries creamy curry sauce and silky egg noodles, is magical.

Inspired by the laab found in Thai markets, this pork laab gets its fabulous flavor from thinly sliced pork liver combined with the ground pork.

This layered tres leches cake is sandwiched with strawberries, mangoes, and whipped cream for a knockout version of the popular dessert everyone will love.

Think Italian-style lemon cornmeal cake, served in scone form. These lemon cornmeal scones are great to have in your freezer at all times.

So-called toasted ravioli—which is really fried ravioli—is a specialty of the Italian-American restaurants in St. Louis.

Leeks slowly cooked down into a silky consistency become sweet and nuanced in these savory scones.

These pretty pink-and-white scones are dotted with blue or black poppy seeds.

This recipe for homemade English muffins employs a few smart tricks, offering a faster path to warm rolls with those coveted chewy nooks and crannies.

A simple homemade lime cordial and a touch of salt make this non-alcoholic cocktail just as special as any boozy option.