Flipping through some cookbooks can feel like an escape into a reality show, with recipes accompanied by glossy photographs of carefully stylized food and immaculately groomed diners gathered around ...

If you’ve logged your requisite man-hours staring fixedly at Great British Bake-Off reruns, you’ll need no introduction to Ruby Tandoh, the British baker and writer who was runner-up on the show’s ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The fact that I live close to a dedicated cookbook-and-food-writing store—and that it’s ...