Here is a shortlist of Super Chef‘s favorite cookbooks and books about food for gift-giving this year, chosen among many excellent contenders.

Food Fiction:
City Lit-Paris (buy)
Various Authors

Young Children:
Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie (buy)
Robbin Gourley

Older Children:
Soup for Breakfast (buy)
Calef Brown

New Cook:
Heard It Through the Grapevine (buy)
Matt Skinner

Foreign Cuisine:
Turquoise (buy)
Greg & Lucy Maalouf

Food Tourism:
New Israeli Cuisine (buy)
Janna Gur

Single Ingredient:
Fat: An Appreciation (buy)
Jennifer McLaglan

Dessert Cookbook:
Rose’s Heavenly Cakes (buy)
Rose Beranbaum

Stocking Stuffer:
School of Essential Ingredients (buy)
Erica Bauermeister

For those with strong chef aspirations and hearts (desirous) of gold, we recommend Super Chef.