Foodista Cookbook Awards 2011

This is Foodista's first annual cookbook awards.  We read, we tested, and we tasted.  We learned about different food cultures and honed new culinary technique- it was a good year for the cookbooks. Check out our favorites of 2011.

Best Overall Cookbooks:

1. Cook This Now by Melissa Clark

2. Ruhlman's 20 by Michael Ruhlman

3. Food 52 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

4. Splendid Table: How to Eat Weekends by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift

Best Regional Cookbooks:

1. Food of Spain by Claudia Roden

2. Food of Morocco by Paula Wolfert

3. Truly Mexican by Roberto Santibanez

Best Vegetarian Cookbook:

Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

Best Chef to Home Cookbook:

The Family Meal by Ferran Adria

Best Special Diets Cookbook:

Intolerant Gourmet by Barbara Kafka

Best Celebrity Chef Cookbook:

Good Eats 3 by Alton Brown

Best Cookbook with Healthy Focus:

Comfort Food Fix by Ellie Kreiger

Best Cookbook with Wine Focus:

Food Lover's Guide to Wine by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

Best Dessert Cookbook:

1. Momofuku Milk Bar by Christina Tosi

2. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer

Best Wildcard Cookbook:

Odd Bits by Jennifer McLagan