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
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