One of my absolute favorite cookbook series of all time is the Short Stack collection of books, which were all the rage in the mid-2010s. I would hurriedly trek around New York City on my lunch breaks, going into small, indie bookshops which stocked the tiny cookbooks, buying as many as I could, collecting them like someone might collect rare baseball cards, increasing my collection more and more as time went on.
On one of my birthdays a few years. back, a few lovely, generous colleagues actually purchased me a stack of them. I loved the books: hand-sewed binding, bright colors, great recipes and individual, singularly-focused, the books were a perfect, pamphlet-sized exploration of these ingredients.
