18 High-End Cookbooks Your Kitchen Needs Now

This is the first cookbook written by Thomas Keller, a world-famous chef, restaurateur, author, and the only American chef with three Michelin stars.

Named after Keller’s famous restaurant located in Napa, California, the book contains 150 recipes from the restaurant itself, along with Keller's

highly sought-after methods.

This book is named after Central, a restaurant helmed by chef Virgilio Martinez. Located in Lima, Peru, the eatery is considered the best restaurant in the world as of 2023.

Central has mastered the art of Peruvian cuisine, and the book holds the same passion for authentic Peruvian ingredients, and documents Martinez's search for the best ingredients.

Disfrutar is the second-best world-famous restaurant. The owners, Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, and Mateu Casnas, have written two multi-volume cookbooks.

The first of these two books, "Disfrutar Volume I," includes all recipes from the trio of chefs from 2014 to 2017, whereas “Disfrutar Volume II” features recipes from 2018 to 2020.

This book, holding 350 Korean recipes, is written by Junghyun Park, owner of Atomix, a famous restaurant. He‘s one of the most well-respected chefs of his time.

From Korean pantry staples to rice and noodle dishes to stews, there are no limits when it comes to the recipes in this cookbook, and you possibly can’t go

wrong with these dishes.

Chef René Redzepi is known

to have reinvented a sort of

new Nordic cuisine, and his renowned restaurant Noma has been named the world's best restaurant numerous times.

The cookbook “Noma: Time

and Place in Nordic Cuisine"

features 90 recipes, and it helps understand Redzepi's thinking behind each ingredient, each step, and the dish as a whole.