Foodista Cookbook Awards 2011
By: Leah Rodrigues
Published: December 30, 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