Eater’s second cookbook, Eaterland, is among this season’s new releases | Collage by Masood Shah | All cover images courtesy publishers The days are getting longer, the sun’s shining, and the whisper of ramp season is starting to swirl through the wind, with the abundance of exciting spring produce fast behind it. It was an especially cold, snowy winter in New York City, and because of that, my excitement to cook also felt stuck within a snowdrift at times. That’s to say that I was more excited than usual to read spring’s slate of new cookbooks. The season’s roundup of cookbooks delivered. I was pleased to find obsessive explorations into vodka sauce and chocolate chip cookies, incredibly in-depth explanations of barbecue that’ll push anyone with a grill to up their game, delightfully moody musings on baking and early-20s life, playful tips from a popular Brooklyn chef for perking up store-bought pita, and so much more. I can say with certainty: Reading these books, I’m excited to cook again. I hope they do the same for you. Obsessed with the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head TestsElla Quittner William Morrow, out now Nobody’s doing it like Ella Quittner. Perhaps you’ve seen her visually compelling recipe tests, like an array of 32 distinct chocolate chip cookies — each following a different technique — or 25 takes on vodka sauce on rigatoni laid out with tweezered precision. Quittner, a contributor to the New York Times and an alum of Food52,…
