Cookbooks

Turkish pide is a popular summer snack; this version uses sheep’s-milk cheese.

This leavened Persian flatbread is at its best when eaten fresh.

Meet mlaoui—msemen’s rebellious younger brother—a flaky skillet-fried Moroccan flatbread.

These gozleme are stuffed with a mixture of three different cheeses to mimic the feta-like Turkish white cheese that’s often used for these flatbreads.

Garlicky, buttery shrimp scampi is an Italian-American restaurant staple that takes little more than a skillet and 15 minutes of your time to make at home.

These lacy pancakes are cooked only on one side, which gives them an incredibly light and delicate texture.

These sesame flatbreads can be made ahead and frozen—or, if you plan ahead, made fresh for breakfast.

These easy Moldovan flatbreads are made by mixing the filling into the dough rather than stuffing it.

The fillings for plachinda often include a salted fresh cheese, as well as spring onions and dill.

This oversize version of khachapuri, the Georgian cheese-filled bread, is both a time-saver and brilliant way to feed a group.

This khachapuri recipe makes all you need for a meal—a luscious cheesy, eggy, buttery bath to dip bread into.

This fried Greek bread—stuffed with feta and spring onions—can be filled with chopped herbs for extra flavor.

In this bok choy recipe, you’ll stir fry the vegetables with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic, and drizzle with sesame oil.

If you like mojitos, you’ll like this minty swizzle from the Queen’s Park Hotel in Trinidad. The swizzle is a category of cocktails named for the special bar tool used to mix all crushed-ice cocktails in the days before blenders. A swizzle stick is a long stick made with three to five forked branches originally made from the allspice bush. If you don’t have one, though, you can use a bar spoon to churn the drink with a similar motion, rotating the stick by rubbing your hands back and forth again …

Audrey Saunders created this sparkly hybrid of a French 75 and a mojito at her bar, New York’s Pegu Club.

One of the oldest and most perfect of three-ingredient cocktails, the Japanese Cocktail first saw print in 1862 but remains stubbornly unknown and underappreciated.

The Manhattan/Brooklyn cocktail riff that birthed a dozen others, Vincenzo Errico’s Red Hook was first served at the original Milk & Honey, the influential bar in New York.

When you store this batter in the fridge (for up to 2 days!) every day can be pancake day.

Thick slices of milk bread are stuffed with creamy peanut butter and soaked in an egg batter for a luscious and exquisitely custardy interior.

Using tangzhong—a technique that calls for mixing a cooked flour mixture into bread dough—produces a bread that’s unbelievably soft, sweet, and fluffy.