I have three collections, knives, mortar and pestles and cookbooks. By far I have the most cookbooks compared to my other two collections, hundreds at this point, I have been collecting them for years, so, honestly it is difficult to narrow it down to only 5. So I didn’t. The books I am sharing with you today are 5 OF my favorite cookbooks and in the future I will share more with you.

How many times have you been in the grocery store or farmer’s market and picked up an unusually shaped winter squash with a rock hard outer layer, only to wonder, “how on earth do I cook this”? Even as a long time cook, there have been moments where I have felt intimated  and simply walked away, only to move onto something more familiar and seemingly simple, like a garnet yam.