The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Tanya Steel, Editor-in-Chief at Epicurious.com, shares her picks for the year's best cookbooks - some of which can help sharpen your technique and others that will expand your culinary style.

Best Cookbooks of 2011

Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can't Wait to Make

by Melissa Clark

Hyperion

Cooking Without Borders

by Anita Lo, Charlotte Druckman

Stewart, Tabori & Chang

Heston Blumenthal at Home

by Heston Blumenthal

Bloomsbury USA

The Homesick Texan Cookbook

by Lisa Fain

Hyperion

Jamie Oliver's Meals in Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast

by Jamie Oliver

Hyperion

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

by Jeni Britton Bauer

Artisan

Mourad: New Moroccan

by Mourad Lahlou

Artisan

Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London's Ottolenghi

by Yotam Ottolenghi

Chronicle Books

Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook's Manifesto

by Michael Ruhlman

Chronicle Books

Truly Mexican: Essential Recipes and Techniques for Authentic Mexican Cooking

by Roberto Santibanez, JJ Goode, Romulo Yanes

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Food Memoirs

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

by Gabrielle Hamilton

Random House

Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War

by Annia Ciezadlo

Free Press

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

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