This week we cook from the cookbook Takashi’s Noodles written by Takashi Yagihashi, chef of his eponymous restaurant in Chicago.

For the launch of our new web design, we’re featuring recipes from seven new cookbooks.

Steve Sando, the emperor of beans, offers a cookbook that explains bean basics, offers recipes, and introduces us to the unusual and delicious.

Our pick this week: the demonized ingredient: fat. Jennifer McLagan’s eye-opening book covers all types of fats and their uses. The recipes are fantastic.

Cookbook authors are an amazingly dedicated bunch. When we here at LC peruse a new book, looking for the recipe we’ll test before posting, I think not enough thought goes into the process of creating a book. Lifetimes are spent writing, testing, photographing, and tweaking — all in the hopes for perfection, for recognition, for, [...]