Hometown Heroes: Cookbooks Spotlight Fall 2016

Big Food Big Love

Sasquatch, Sept.

Southern transplant Earnhardt brings a bit of North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest with the Wandering Goose, her small bakery/cafe in Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Local publisher Sasquatch is calling her book, which collects 130 of her recipes, a key title on its fall list.

There’s Always Room for Chocolate

Rizzoli, Sept.

In 2005, Josepher and Payson opened the Chocolate Room in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, after identifying a need for a dessert bar

in the rapidly changing neighborhood. They opened a second Brooklyn location in Cobble Hill in 2008, and this fall they are debuting their first cookbook, coauthored by Georgia Freedman, a contributing editor at Saveur.

Black Trumpet

Chelsea Green, Oct.

Mallett, chef and owner of Black Trumpet in Portsmouth, N.H., shares more than 250 recipes inspired by the changing New England seasons, as well as the story of how his restaurant came to be a model for local food sourcing.

The Enchilada Queen Cookbook

St. Martin’s, Nov.

Casares, owner of Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen, Houston’s Tex-Mex favorite, offers up recipes for enchiladas, fajitas, tamales, and more, inspired by the “madres and abuelas who make food specific to their border towns on the Rio Grande,” according to the publisher.

Biscuit Head

Voyageur, Nov.

The husband-and-wife team opened Biscuit Head, a popular Asheville, N.C., breakfast joint, in 2013 and expanded with a second location in the city in 2014. This year is proving to be a big one for the Roys—they’ve opened a third outlet, in Greenville, S.C., and are releasing their debut cookbook.

The Dumpling Galaxy Cookbook

Clarkson Potter, Jan. 2017

For nearly a decade, You has served dumplings at Tianjin Dumpling House, a stall in the basement food court of a Queens mall, which has enmeshed her in Flushing’s growing food scene. She opened Dumpling Galaxy, a full-service restaurant, in the neighborhood in 2014.