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Browse Milk Street books by Christopher Kimball in order, with publication details and summaries to help you choose where to start reading.

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Milk Street books in publication order

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12 books

1

The New Home Cooking

by Christopher Kimball

2017

Kimball and the Milk Street team introduce internationally inspired recipes and techniques intended for home kitchens. Grains, salads, dinners, and desserts demonstrate an approach centered on accessible ingredients, shorter preparation, and practical methods rather than specialized equipment or elaborate procedures.

2

Tuesday Nights

by Christopher Kimball

2018

More than two hundred weeknight recipes use pantry staples and a few additional ingredients to build internationally influenced meals. Chapters group dishes by preparation time and method, helping home cooks choose among quick dinners, salads, one-pot meals, and simple desserts.

3

The New Rules

by Christopher Kimball

2019

Seventy-five cooking principles connect more than two hundred recipes with techniques for developing flavor and texture. The Milk Street team demonstrates changes in searing, roasting, sauce-making, and ingredient combinations, presenting practical lessons that can extend beyond each individual dish.

4

Cookish

by Christopher Kimball

2020

Two hundred streamlined recipes use small ingredient lists and adaptable techniques to simplify dinner. The Milk Street team shows how pantry staples, vegetables, and everyday proteins can become varied meals, with most dishes requiring less than an hour and leaving room for improvisation.

5

Fast and Slow

by Christopher Kimball

2020

This multicooker cookbook offers pressure-cooking and slow-cooking approaches to the same dishes, allowing preparation to fit different schedules. Recipes span vegetables, grains, beans, pasta, and meats, using internationally inspired flavors while explaining how each appliance setting changes timing and technique.

6

Tuesday Nights Mediterranean

by Christopher Kimball

2021

Mediterranean weeknight meals draw on traditions from southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Organized by time and cooking approach, the recipes use accessible pantry ingredients to build dinners, soups, vegetable mains, and flatbreads in less than forty-five minutes.

7

Vegetables

by Christopher Kimball

2021

More than two hundred fifty vegetable-focused recipes draw on cooking traditions from several countries. Roasting, braising, stir-frying, spices, and contrasting textures move vegetables toward the center of meals, with grains and beans expanding the possibilities beyond familiar side dishes.

8

Cook What You Have

by Christopher Kimball

2022

A pantry-centered approach turns common ingredients and leftovers into adaptable meals instead of prescribing another shopping trip. The recipes demonstrate how canned beans, tomatoes, eggs, frozen proteins, and everyday staples can support improvisation across soups, main dishes, and desserts.

9

The World in a Skillet

by Christopher Kimball

2022

A standard skillet becomes the basis for internationally inspired one-pan meals drawn from more than thirty-five countries. Recipes are grouped by time and dish type, showing how the same piece of cookware can handle curries, pasta, stir-fries, sandwiches, and roasts.

10

Milk Street Simple

by Christopher Kimball

2023

Two hundred weeknight recipes reduce internationally inspired dishes to a few essential ingredients and techniques. Quick preparation, limited hands-on work, and adaptable combinations organize an approach spanning noodles, grains, roasts, salads, sheet-pan dinners, and desserts for everyday cooking.

11

The Milk Street Cookbook

by Christopher Kimball

2023

This collection gathers recipes from Milk Street television episodes through the 2023–2024 season, organized by dish type. Photographs and tested home-kitchen methods accompany globally influenced salads, soups, grains, main courses, and desserts, with an emphasis on accessible ingredients and manageable preparation.

12

Milk Street Backroads Italy

by Christopher Kimball

2025

Kimball and J. M. Hirsch explore regional Italian cooking through recipes gathered from small restaurants, markets, farms, and home kitchens. Their collection pairs local techniques and stories with pasta, vegetables, soups, dumplings, and other dishes less familiar outside their places of origin.

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