The Best Cookbooks for Gifting

A list that brings the joy

Honey, Soy, and Ginger Braised Tofu. Photo: David Loftus

When it comes to cookbooks, I never know which kind of person I want to be: The streamlined one, with a few key cookbooks from which I get exactly what I need, or the romantic, with stacks of all different sorts of cookbooks scattered around sort of everywhere. (Can you tell? I am the latter, but strive to be the former.)