The best cookbooks of 2020

Whether you’re using this time to cook and bake up a storm or you just love beautiful cookbooks (we certainly do!), check out this year’s James Beard Foundation Book Awards nominees.

Award nominees & our favorite digital cookbooks & magazines

2020 James Beard Foundation Book Awards

Each year, the James Beard Foundation presents awards to the best cookbooks and other nonfiction food- or beverage-related books published in the U.S. the prior year. On May 4, they announced this year’s nominees. See the full list of nominees »


Winners, including the Book of the Year Award and the Cookbook Hall of Fame inductee, will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.