Ten Best Gluten Free Cookbooks and Happy Chanukah!

My Little Blue Heron’s Ten Best Cookbooks for 2017

Whether you're looking for additions to your library, or for a holiday or host gift, here are a few of my favorites. For my bookshelf, I look for used books in good or better condition on Amazon. I find that books sold by any "Goodwill" are in better condition than listed.

Some books don’t reference “gluten free”, not in title, main or sub, or in description. One of my most treasured cookbooks, Flavor Flours, only refers to “a new way to bake with teff, buckwheat, sorghum, other whole & ancient grains, nuts & non-wheat flours.” Result? We’re all invited to this party. Gluten free is the outcome rather than the object of these recipes. Nice.

Here’s are 10 cookbooks that I think are really great. Most are completly gluten free, but those that aren’t have enough gluten free recipes to have made the cut.

Be happy, healthy, peaceful and live with ease both in and out of the kitchen,

xojane

Flavor Flours by Alice Medrich

Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

                                                                        by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D. and Zoe François

Alternative Baker by Alanna Taylor-Tobin

Flying Apron’s Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book by Jennifer Katzinger

Flourless. by Nicole Spiridakis

Good to the Grain, Baking with Whole Grain Flours by Kim Boyce with Amy Scattergood

            (not entirely gluten free, but plenty of gluten free options)

My New Roots, Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season by Sarah Britton

            (not entirely gluten free, but plenty of gluten free options)

La Tartine Gourmande Recipes for an Inspired Life by Béatrice Peltre

Les cakes de Laurent Sans gluten & sans lait by Laurent Dran

            In French

Small Plates & Sweet Treats My family’s journey to gluten-free cooking  

                                                                        by Aran Goyoaga

It's the first day of Chanukah, festival of light .. or as I interpret it, of survival. In the U.S., many of us feel that we're living in the Twilight Zone, a surreal existence. 

But goodness prevailed last night, and a pedophile and sexual abuser was ousted from political power, despite that his wife argued that "some of our best friends are Jewish." 

There is hope and love and light in this world. Let it shine from every pore!