20 Ways to Become a Better Cook

From the yellow-polka-dotted text block (google "text block bookbinding" if you don't know what we're talking about) to the dreamy photography (star food photographer Matt Armendariz kills it, like always), Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes From Our Kitchen ($35) by Zoe Nathan, is a winner. Some recipes require relatively advanced pastry skills (the fresh blueberry brioche and cinnamon raisin bagels, for example) but most are simple enough that a newbie baker could successfully pull it off, making for a nice mix.

Recipes we can't wait to try:

• Banana chocolate silver dollar pancakes
• Smashed avocado toast with hard-boiled eggs and anchovy dressing
• Barley porridge with spring onions, kale, and sausage
• Maple bacon biscuits
• Grapefruit galette
• Cornbread pudding
• Blueberry cornmeal cake