Cookbook covers can be like optical illusions. Take “Microwave Cooking for One,” which features the author, Marie T. Smith, alone with some platters of color-saturated food. Some readers may see ...

The Ultimate Mediterranean Diet Cooking for One Cookbook by by Kelly Jaggers is the perfect introduction to all the health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet, with 175 recipes that are easy, delicious ...

Finding the motivation to cook for just yourself can be challenging, especially when you're also the only one who will be doing dishes. It's a struggle cookbook author Eleanor Wilkinson knows well.

Exceptional new cookbooks, with fresh takes on easy baking, Thai cooking in America and seasonal pasta, as tested by New York Times Cooking and the Food desk. By Adina Steiman Adina Steiman, an editor ...

From weeknight-friendly dishes to low-stress baking, today’s most influential cookbooks are meeting readers where they are.