THE WORLD IN YOUR KITCHEN
n (Quadrille Publishing), the Kuala Lumpur–born chef behind the lauded London restaurant of the same name, Mandy Yin, celebrates the diversity of Malaysian food culture, with dozens of recipes ranging from. • Katerina Nitsou’s (Interlink Books) is a love letter to her Northern Macedonian roots and the food she grew up eating — dishes like (baked beans) and , a meat-and-egg “pizza.” • Today shared by Slovenia and Croatia, the Istrian peninsula has in turn been ruled by the Venetian Republic, Austria, and Italy, creating a rich culinary heritage that Italian-American author Paola Bacchia, whose father hails from the area, affectionately explores in (Smith Street Books). • Interspersed with memoirs and recipes, (Avery) is attorney and TikTok star Joanne Lee Molinaro’s plant-based tribute to her ancestral homeland. • Tour the capitals of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia with self-described “storyteller cook” Zuza Zak in (Interlink Books), whose pages offer up new-wave Baltic dishes like wild mushroom and pumpkin terrine and a beetroot salad with smoked fish. • (Phaidon) draws on hundreds of regional recipes compiled by Peruvian chef Virgilio Martínez, who guides readers on a journey from Mexico to Argentina and situates dishes like Honduran tacos and Bolivian spicy pork stew in fascinating cultural context. • Rohit Ghai, the Punjabi chef behind some of London’s leading Indian restaurants, has packed his first cookbook, (Kyle Books), with innovative vegetarian and vegan dishes (like jackfruit masala or lotus-root ) that pay homage to the food his parents ate. • (Rizzoli) is Franco-Vietnamese actress and model Anne-Solenne Hatte’s heartfelt tribute to her maternal grandmother, who fled the Vietnam War and eventually opened a well-regarded family restaurant in France.
