Food52 Simply Genius: Recipes for Busy Cooks

Food52 is one of my favorite websites to peruse their culinary techniques and use their recipes. This is one of the best new cookbooks for 2025. I highly recommend you purchase this book and share the recipes with your family.

Each delicious recipe feels specially chosen to teach you something new and unexpected about cooking that will either simplify the process or bump things up to a higher level without much extra trouble. It helps you understand how it all works. I’m in the process of thinning out my cookbook collection but will keep this forever.

I am really trying to expand my cooking repertoire and this book does a great job of providing some relatively straightforward recipes while teaching some key fundamentals along the way. Other books have assumed that I have knowledge or equipment for that matter that are foreign to me. It has helped nuture my love of cooking. Good luck!

I love to come across those magical recipes that have fewer ingredients, easy shortcuts, or a secret ingredient - this book is full of those! The recipes are hand-picked and crowd-sourced, and they are presented between all kinds of tips and tricks to make cooking feel easier. The pictures are beautiful, as are the illustrations. Highly recommend this book!

This is so much more than a roast chicken cookbook. The author has searched out simple recipes from famous, lesser known , and unknown chefs. Her detail in graphic cooking tips and recipe hints are so informative and the photos make it coffee table worthy. Really enjoying this as well as her other two titles.