Cookbooks for Mom: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond
If you’re like me and you wait until the last minute to purchase a Mother’s Day gift for Mom, I’m about to let you in on a big secret: This year, ditch the cheesy grocery store card and wilted flower bouquet, and instead head straight to your local bookstore for a copy of The Pioneer … Read more
Cookbooks for Mom: Savory Sweet Life by Alice Currah
I first met Alice Currah at a cocktail party hosted by Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman. This party was held at Salon de Ning, the rooftop bar on the 23rd floor of the Peninsula Hotel, here in New York City. It was a breezy, magical summer night. Morrow Cookbooks had just signed up Alice to … Read more
Cookbooks for Mom: Emeril 20-40-60 by Emeril Lagasse
It looks as if our favorite chef, Emeril Lagasse, has come to the rescue once again! This time he’s saving busy moms all across America from spending endless hours slaving over a home-cooked meal. Does the idea of eating spicy pork wraps with creamy cole slaw in only 26 minutes sound appealing to you? Or … Read more
COOKBOOKS FOR MOM: THE TREATS TRUCK BAKING BOOK
I love cookbooks, but my personal favorite is actually a baking book—THE TREATS TRUCK BAKING BOOK by Kim Ima. Let me start off by saying that I love baked goods… cookies, cupcakes, rice crispy bars, pies, lemon squares… don’t even get me started on lemon squares! When I first started working with Kim Ima, I … Read more
Cookbooks for Mom: Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
This week, we’ll be highlighting a cookbook each day that we think would be a great Mother’s Day gift. These are cookbooks we’ve each used in our own home cooking—and, these are authors we all enjoy working with. In addition to being great chefs, bakers, or cookbook authors, they’re just terrific people. What could be … Read more

A food reporter and columnist for the New York Times since 1997, Amanda Hesser is the author of the award-winning cookbook The Cook and the Gardener, as well as Cooking for Mr. Latte and Eat, Memory. She is the editor of The Essential New York Times Cookbook, and is the co-founder of the user-generated community website dedicated to recipes and cooking, 