Our Holiday Cookbook List

Here are a few suggestions for holiday cookbooks from us at Moe's Books. This list will be featured in Diablo Magazine' s gift guide for the coming holidays.

1. Mission Street Food (McSweeney's), by Anthony Myint  978-1936365159.  Coolest book in the store! Great design, food stories, and the best hamburger recipe ever.

2.  Odd Bits, by Jennifer McLagan. (Ten Speed press) 978-1580083348. From the author of Fat and Bones , a new book on using more adventuresome parts of animals - all to delicious effect.

3.  40 years of Chez Panisse, by Alice Waters. (Clarkson Potter)  978-0307718266. This book celebrates the 40th anniversary of Chez with a wealth of photos, menus, stories.

4.  David Chang's " Lucky Peach " magazine, Issue 2. (Mcsweeney's) 978-1936365470. Issue No. 1 was a runaway bestseller - Second issue arrives in time for the holidays, from the wild and wise David Chang.

5. Best Food Writing 2011, ed. Holly Hughes (Da Capo) 0738215181. Always an in-store bestseller, this smorgasbord of articles covers the pleasures of food from every direction.

6. Miette - Recipes from San Francisco's Most Charming Pastry Shop, by Meg Ray. (Chronile Books) 978-0811875042.This book is truly charming - its pages are cut to resemble a decorated cake.

7. Mourad: New Moroccan, by Mourad Lahlou (Artisan) 978-1579654290. Mourad Lahlou (of San Francisco's Aziza restaurant provides a luscious blend of Moroccan cooking with fresh Northern California ingredients. Beautiful photographs, too.

8. And don't forget our fourth floor art shop More Moes which offers rare and collectable books on cooking, wine, and more.

Stanislaw Sobolewski
Cookbook manager, Moe's Books