Cookbooks

Ken Concepcion of LA's influential cookbook shop Now Serving curates his favorite cookbooks of the season. Want to try before you buy? Check out our recipes, all excerpted from the latest cookbooks in print.

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Now Serving Picks 2025 Fave Cookbooks

Every issue we’re honored to have Ken Concepcion, co-proprietor of DTLA’s Now Serving bookstore, pick his best cookbooks of the season. Drumroll please! Here are his 22 fave books of the past year:

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