Father’s day is already at the corner! If your dad loves to eat, why not making him dinner from one of these five cookbooks, and leave them behind as a gift for him. Check our best cookbook picks for Father’s Day, you’re sure to make a hit this sunday!
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
This complete meat—and brisket—cooking education from Aaron Franklin unlocks the secrets behind truly mind-blowing barbecue, and share years’ worth of knowledge and experience. From building a smoker to finding the right wood and sourcing the right meat, this guide is the perfect gift for the aspired backyard pitmaster.
$18.92, available at Amazon.
Heritage
A celebration of Southern food and ingredients by renowned chef Sean Brock. The recipes include all the comfort food and high-end elaborations for which he has become so well-known. This very personal book features headnotes that explain Brock’s background and America’s culinary heritage to give context to an ensemble of recipes your can easily make at home.
$24.00, available at Amazon.
Southern Living A Southern Gentleman’s Kitchen
Adventures in Cooking, Eating, and Living in the New South—In this part-cookbook and part-guidebook, Matt Moore embraces a fresh perspective on what it means to cook, eat, and live as a true Southern Gentleman in the 21st century. Treat your dad with this collection of 150 distinctly simple Southern dishes for every meal of the day!
$21.51, available at Amazon.
Wicked Good Burgers
From the basics of meat combinations to grinding your own meat, to non-meat burgers Wicked Good Burgers is a great burger book. Your dad will learn the art and science of freshly grinding meats – from beef to lamb to goat – for the ultimate juicy burger as well as cooking methods such as smoking, grilling, griddling that impart distinctive flavor. A fun cover-to-cover read, for dads who enjoy reading cookbooks.
$13.19, available at Amazon.
Feeding the Fire
For the dads who are serious about stepping up their barbecue and grilling game, this book is the ultimate gift for Father’s day. Feeding the Fire teaches the hows and whys of live-fire cooking: from controlling fire to properly grill meat and chicken to how to make the best sides. Reading this book got us so hungry we wanted to eat its pages!
$20.23, available at Amazon.