Cookbooks
Plant & Planet: Sustainable and Delicious Vegetarian Cooking for Real People
Rodale, December 2021
Simple steps can make an impact on our planet. From BuzzFeed’s Goodful, these 75 plant-based recipes plus plenty of low-waste strategies will guide you to a sustainable life you can feel good about.
Goodful offers approachable recipes, tips, and guides for everyday life. In Plant and Planet, discover seventy-five plant-based recipes for meal prep, everyday celebrations, and cooking with the seasons, from Zucchini Lasagna Boats and Black Bean & Walnut Quesadillas to Caramelized Banana & Orange Parfaits, along with tons of ways to stock your kitchen, grow your own ingredients, turn your scraps into amazing treats, and more.
Beautifully photographed, this cookbook is super practical and impactful, with surprising and easy ways to reduce environmental impact, shopping guides and meal plans, information about repurposing food waste, plus a guide to growing your own ingredients. You will learn how to:
• Approach cooking from a seasonal perspective
• Minimize packaging while maximizing flavor
• Clear out your fridge and freezer to make comforting soups, salads, and other dishes
Featuring contributions from experts DeVonn Francis, Lorena Ramirez, Lauren Singer, Nadiya Hussain, Kelis Rogers, David Zilber, and Ben Flanner, Plant & Planet is filled with tips and quick hits of information about the environmental impact of these recipes—all to deliver a low-stress, high-impact path to a low-waste kitchen.
Developed and wrote 75 original recipes.
Tasty Over the Top: High Drama, Low Maintenance
Clarkson Potter, November 2021
Have fun in the kitchen and wow your friends with 75 of Tasty’s biggest, boldest, and most show-stopping “Over the Top” recipes that are easy to make for any occasion.
Tasty is the online and Instagram go-to for creative, playful, and mouthwatering recipes. Tasty Over the Top is peak Tasty, with eye-catching recipes that are sure to impress (and no one needs to know that they’re easier than they look!).
Here you’ll find seventy-five recipes that raise the bar with minimal effort, like Breakfast Biscuit Nachos (yes, split biscuits baked on a sheet pan with all the fixins), a sloppy joe/bacon cheeseburger mash-up, a BLT deconstructed into the salad of your dreams (think maple-glazed bacon and mayo-toasted croutons!), and more delicious, out-of-this-world ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. This book is your all-access ticket to proving your chops and pulling out all the stops. Not only are these dishes unexpected and stunning, but they will also inspire you to explore a world of bold flavor combinations and to experiment with new techniques that will make you feel like a tried-and-true Tasty chef.
Developed and wrote 75 original recipes.
Tasty Adulting: All Your Faves, All Grown Up
Clarkson Potter, November 2020
BuzzFeed’s Tasty helps you conquer the kitchen—one meal at a time.
Tasty Adulting is made specifically for the young (and young at heart) cooks who are just getting their footing as grown-ups. First, this book walks you through the foundations of cooking and builds up your kitchen confidence and know-how. Then, 75 fun, quick, and totally doable recipes meet you exactly where you are, allowing you to make mistakes, encouraging you to try new techniques, and gearing you up to reign supreme at the dinner table. With chapters like Souper Heroes, Put Some Meat On Your Bones, and A Sweet Finish, as well as a whole section for having people over, this book helps you move toward that golden “I have my life together” feeling. And just like that, you’re Adulting.
Developed and wrote 75 original recipes.
Developed and wrote additional chapter for Target.
Tasty Pride: 75 Recipes and Stories from the Queer Food Community
Clarkson Potter, May 2020
Be proud, be loud, be flavorful. From the beloved, fiercely inclusive BuzzFeed cooking brand comes 75 innovative recipes and inspiring stories from prominent LGBTQ+ cooks and foodies.
Tasty has always been the place to turn for good eats. Now, it’s also the place to turn for a community. Here, stories of love, pride, and acceptance—and the important role that food can play in that journey—accompany the innovative yet totally doable recipes you know to expect from Tasty.
Compiled by food writer Jesse Szewczyk and contributed by 75 cooks and celebrities from across the queer community such as Ted Allen, Anita Lo, and Rick Martinez, these recipes are not only delicious, but also meaningful. These folks bring you the dishes they love most, from Taco Potatoes with Spicy Ground Turkey to Everything Bagel Beignets, and from Beer-Steamed Crabs with Spicy Vinegar Dipping Sauce and Corn Salad to Fudgy Miso Brownies.
Pull up a chair and take your seat at the table with Tasty Pride.
Contributed “Garlicky White Bean Dip.”
Family Meal: Recipes from Our Community
Penguin Random House, May 2020
Restaurants nourish us. While they're closed, we need to nourish them.
Beyond the basics of providing food and drink, restaurants fulfill a human need for connection. They're a gathering place for family and friends, for first dates and breakups and birthdays and weddings. They've been there for us in good times and bad. Now it's time for us to give back.
To help support America's restaurant industry, Penguin Random House is publishing Family Meal: Recipes from Our Community, a digital-only collection featuring 50 easy recipes from our family of food and drink authors that you can't find anywhere else. Readers will get an exclusive look at what these culinary masters are cooking at home right now--recipes that feed, sustain, and provide connection to the world outside. From Mushroom Bolognese to Shrimp and Chorizo White Bean Stew to Chocolate Chip Olive Oil Cookies to Quarantine Wine Pairings, learn what Ina Garten, Samin Nosrat, Hugh Acheson, Dan Barber, Bobby Flay, Alison Roman, Christina Tosi, Kwame Onwuachi, Ruth Reichl, Claire Saffitz, Danny Trejo, and many others are cooking for comfort. All proceeds from Family Mealwill benefit the Restaurant Workers' Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund, which supports on-the-ground efforts in the restaurant community during this challenging time.
Contributed “Crunchy Ramen Salad.”
Tasty Every Day
Clarkson Potter, November 2019
Meal prep, one pot, no cook, slow cooker or Instant Pot®—BuzzFeed’s Tasty has something for everyone with 75 time-saving, taste-tested recipes that make cooking easy and fun.
We know you’re busy, so we'll make it quick. Or, actually, you’ll make it quick. With easy-clean-up one-pot wonders like Spaghetti with Caramelized Lemon, Shrimp, and Parsley and hands-off slow cooker life-savers like Shredded Chicken Tacos, you’ll get food on the table fast and effortlessly. Only have five ingredients? No problem—turn them into craveable Cauliflower Mac ’n’ Cheese. Wouldn’t it be magic if you could cook once and eat for the week? Spoiler alert: Meal prep makes it possible. Whether you’re short on time, ingredients, clean pans, motivation, or all of the above, there is food here for you. Mealtime can and should be Tasty every single day.
Developed and wrote additional chapters for Urban Outfitters and Walmart.
Maple Syrup
Short Stack Editions, January 2016
Leave it to a native son of New England to school us on the art and magic of this precious ingredient. Casey's recipes tread a brilliant line between tradition and whimsy, reviving old family recipes (like the ultimate custard-like French toast) while pushing his favorite childhood sweetener into new territory (as with miso-maple chicken wings). This Short Stack edition is the ultimate reminder that maple goes way beyond a short stack.
Developed and wrote 20 original recipes.