It can be so easy to fall into a vegetable rut. I mean, everyone loves a pan of cauliflower or brussels sprouts roasted until caramelized and crispy, but after enough repetition, even that can get old. So we turn to these cookbooks for vegetable inspiration: books which open our eyes to new veggie-prep options, from unusual braised dishes to creative spice combinations. Hey, vegetable lovers, what's your favorite book for vegetable dishes? Which recipes are in your frequent rotation? More

Whether you are planning to host a Cinco de Mayo party or simply trying to improve your tamale technique, a great Mexican cookbook can help. And while it's always tough to pick favorites from our massive cookbook collections, today we're sharing 6 of our favorite guides to Mexican cooking: books with photos that get us salivating and recipes that have proven successful. Check out the list and tell us: do you have a Mexican cookbook you love? More

Choosing favorites from your cookbook collection is a bit like choosing a favorite child, but here at Serious Eats, we will take just about any opportunity to talk about awesome sources for recipes. Here are 10 of our favorite Italian cookbooks—books that introduced us to some of our favorite dishes to cook at home. (Warning: acquiring these books is likely to increase your pasta cravings.) More

The best restaurant cookbooks have the ability to capture a dining experience, not only through its recipes but through tone, design, and the chef's voice. In a way these cheffy cookbooks act as much as actual cookbooks as they do dining mementos, preserving a truly memorable meal after you pay the check. More

This gift guide has a book for each of the unique cooks on your holiday shopping list. Everyone from the solo eater to the CSA junkie to the science-minded inquisitive cook to the time-pressed weeknight chef to the hardcore griller—they're all covered on this list of our favorite cookbooks of 2011. More

For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to share your Cookbook Keepers, the volumes that have served you best over the years. We're talking about the spatter-stained, dog-eared cookbooks, the ones that are home to the recipes you turn to again and again. So, what are the MVPs of your cookbook shelves? Let's take a look. More

Grant Achatz's Alinea cookbook came out back in 2008, but it's getting more attention now with the release of Modernist Cuisine and all of Achatz's new projects (read more about them in our interview). Even if you don't picture yourself making spheres of beet juice or mozzarella balloons every night, it's still a fun book to have on the shelf. Enter to win one of the five copies we're giving away here. More

As the "mostly plants" approach edges its way into the popular mindset, it's been a kick to see vegetable-heavy cookbooks by well-known authors springing up from the verdant ground of the major publishing houses. These two new books (one very new, one a rock star from 2010) are among my favorites in this category. More

To describe Modernist Cuisine as "a cookbook" is a bit like describing Mount Everest as a hill. With 2,438 pages—3,216 full color photographs and 1.1 million words—Modernist Cuisine will surely be the longest, most thorough examination of food ever published. It hits the market next month with a price tag of $625. The ink alone weighs over 4 pounds—that's about the same as Thomas Keller's entire French Laundry Cookbook. More

Judging by the comments in our Best Cookbooks of 2010, it looks like some readers are hankering for a list of our favorite Asian Cookbooks from 2010. Given the wide variety of books that fall under the umbrella category of "Asian," there were quite a few contenders. We were most drawn to the cookbooks that offered both excellent instruction and a distinctive voice, inspiring cooks in the kitchen. More