Imaginative, clearly written recipes are at the heart of this book by Yankee Magazine food editor Amy Traverso. The 100+ recipes offer the full range from breakfast dishes, appetizers, salads, soups, and entrees all the way to desserts. On the savory side, there's a cider-braised brisket and a recipe for Sweet Potato-Apple Latkes. On the sweet side, you'll find crisps, cobblers, pies, and cakes, including Apple-Pear Cobbler, Cider Donut Muffins, and an Apple-Cranberry Slab Pie cut into squares to eat by hand.

But The Apple Lover's Cookbook is more than a cookbook. It's a celebration of apples in all their incredible diversity, as well as an illustrated guide to 70 popular (and rare-but-worth-the-search) apple varieties. Each has its own complete biography with entries for best use, origin, availability, season, appearance, taste, and texture.

First published a decade ago, and newly revised and updated in 2020, The Apple Lover's Cookbook is a go-to book for all things apple.

Size/Weight

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.1 x 10.4 inches