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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lauren Taylor

The standout cookbooks of 2025 you may have missed – and the recipes worth cooking first

A reminder that 2025’s best cookbooks weren’t just the loudest ones – some of the most rewarding flew quietly under the radar - (Dan Jones/Mowie Kay/Clare Winfield)

This year brought an array of amazing cookbooks; TV icon Mary Berry turned 90 and released a book celebrating the milestone, Rick Stein wrote his first-ever festive food cookbook at 78, US chef Samin Nosrat published the much-anticipated follow-up to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat – later made into a Netflix show – and Ottolenghi collaborator, Sami Tamimi released Boustany, a celebration of Palestinian vegetables.

But in case you missed some of the other releases, here are some of our favourites from 2025.

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