Twenty-four kitchens. One shelf.

Cook the way
you actually eat.

Twenty-four downloadable cookbooks, each built around a night you already have — the sweet one, the clean one, the long one, the Sunday one, the far-from-home one, the fire one, the one-pan one, the one you pour, the one that is all fish, the one where nothing comes from an animal, and the one that uses up what the others threw away.

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The sample is 48 recipes, two from every book. No email, no account.

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The shelf

Every book is a whole way of cooking, not a folder of recipes.

The shelf

Every book, grouped by the night you are cooking.

Twenty-four books, 1,758 recipes, 2,099 pages. Every one is written and photographed the same way, and every one downloads as a single PDF.

Weeknight dinners

2 books · 141 recipes

The Tuesday problem: one pan, or a bowl worth eating.

Healthy Eats & Clean Energy title page
Bright Plate

Vegetable-forward dinners, bowls and broths that are not a punishment.

81 recipes · 93 pages · $25
One Pot title page
One Pot

One pan, thirty minutes, and nothing waiting in a second pot.

60 recipes · 71 pages · $25

American & Southern

2 books · 115 recipes

Regional cooking, and the Sunday table it comes from.

Soul Food Heritage & Hearth title page
Sunday Table

Sunday cooking: gravy, greens, cornbread and a table that stays put.

55 recipes · 66 pages · $25
The American Table title page
The American Table

Regional American cooking, by the part of the country that argues for it.

60 recipes · 71 pages · $25

World kitchens

2 books · 162 recipes

Further afield — twenty-odd kitchens, and Mexico from the corn up.

International Far Kitchen title page
Far Kitchen

The dishes people actually cook at home, from twenty-odd kitchens.

82 recipes · 94 pages · $25
Corn & Ember title page
Corn & Ember

Mexico from the corn up: nixtamal, the mole family by region, salsas, the coast.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25

Fire & slow cooking

2 books · 121 recipes

Live coals, and the cuts that reward being left alone for hours.

Savory Low & Slow title page
Low & Slow

Braises, smoke and the cuts that reward being left alone for hours.

61 recipes · 72 pages · $25
Smoke & Flame title page
Smoke & Flame

Sixty over live fire, sorted by what the heat is doing.

60 recipes · 71 pages · $25

Fish & shellfish

2 books · 160 recipes

The whole counter, from cheap shellfish to the once-a-year things.

Ink & Feather title page
Ink & FeatherPremium

What you walk past at the counter — octopus, duck, sushi, roe, whole fish.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $30
The Whole Catch title page
The Whole CatchPremium

The whole fish counter, from the cheap shellfish to the once-a-year things.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $30

Pasta & noodles

2 books · 160 recipes

Flour, water and hands, at both ends of the world.

Flour & Water title page
Flour & WaterPremium

Pasta and pizza by hand, one chapter per Italian region.

80 recipes · 95 pages · $30
Fold & Pull title page
Fold & PullPremium

Noodles, dumplings and buns, with the hydration written down.

80 recipes · 118 pages · $30

Vegetarian & vegan

2 books · 160 recipes

Where the vegetable is the dinner, and where nothing comes from an animal.

Root & Crown title page
Root & CrownPremium

Eighty where the vegetable is the dinner, not the thing beside it.

80 recipes · 99 pages · $30
Nothing from an Animal title page
Nothing from an Animal

Vegan as technique: depth without bones, richness without butter, binding without egg.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25

Baking & pastry

3 books · 209 recipes

The oven, from a plain loaf to a laminated pastry.

Decadent Desserts & Confectionery title page
Sugar Hour

Cakes, pies, cookies and candy, weighed twice over — grams and cups.

69 recipes · 80 pages · $25
Hearth & Crumb title page
Hearth & Crumb

Bread, pastry and the home oven, with the timings a home oven needs.

60 recipes · 71 pages · $25
The Pastry Room title page
The Pastry Room

Pâtisserie the way a pastry section builds it — components first, then assemblies.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25

Morning & drinks

4 books · 290 recipes

The early one, the late one, the one in a blender and the one you grind.

First Light title page
First Light

Breakfast and brunch, including the eggs everybody claims to have mastered.

60 recipes · 71 pages · $25
The Long Pour title page
The Long Pour

Seventy drinks sorted by the bottle you own, zero-proof chapter included.

70 recipes · 83 pages · $25
Blade & Glass title page
Blade & Glass

Eighty smoothies and juices, sixty of them needing only a blender.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25
Grind & Steep title page
Grind & Steep

Eighty coffee and tea drinks, and not a brewing manual.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25

Pantry & preserving

3 books · 240 recipes

The jar, the shop shelf, and the half you were going to throw away.

Jar & Crock title page
Jar & CrockPremium

Pickles, ferments, jam and cures, arranged by what does the preserving.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $30
Bought & Made title page
Bought & MadePremium

The things you normally buy — butter, cheese, ketchup, cereal, ice cream.

80 recipes · 98 pages · $30
Using It Up title page
Using It Up

The half of the ingredient you already paid for — stalks, peels, bones, brine.

80 recipes · 94 pages · $25

The whole shelf

All twenty-four books, $299.

1,758 recipes, 2,099 pages, as twenty-four PDFs. Bought separately it's $635, so the whole shelf saves you $336. Or any ten for $169, or any five for $89.

Get the shelf Emailed the moment you pay · yours to keep
1,758 recipes, 2,099 pagesTwenty-four books, six chapters or more each, every one written and photographed the same way. Nothing here is a repackaged blog archive.
Numbers on every pageYield, hands-on time and total time are printed with all 1,758 recipes, and per-serving nutrition with 872 of them.
109 technique notesWhere a step is the one that goes wrong, it gets its own paragraph explaining why — rather than a line telling you to be careful.