Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide

An eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicles, graphics, and snappy writing.  

Subjects include: a visual history of cookbook design; what’s the matter with front matter?; the diet cookbooks we’ve starved for; the proliferation of French cookbooks, hippie cookbooks, TV-show cookbooks. And so much more. In short, Cookbooking is a celebration of the genre and an exploration of what makes books filled with recipes so engaging, collectable, and such excellent companions in bed.

This is a book for cookbook collectors and casual fans alike. Whether you're looking for cool cookbooks to add to your shelf or searching for a unique gift to give the foodie in your life, Cookbooking is sure to surprise and delight.  

• A love letter to the cookbooks you already own: and an irresistible guide to the ones you'll want next
• Visually stunning and endlessly browsable: packed with photographs, graphics, and snappy writing 
• The perfect gift for the cookbook obsessive in your life

Debbie Berne was a Bay Area-based fixture in cookbook publishing. She designed dozens of cookbooks including The Downton Abbey Cookbook, Somebody Feed Phil, Budmo, (Serious) New Cook, Chîmi Nu'am, The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook, and Flavors from the Farm. Debbie was also the author of The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers.