• The legendary Nancy Silverton is working on a new cookbook: How to Cook Like an Italian Butcher will feature recipes from her LA restaurant Chi Spacca. It sounds like the book will focus mainly on meat, but maybe, just maybe, there will be a recipe for her focaccia di recco, too.
• New York Times recipe guru Melissa Clark is working on a second Instant Pot cookbook, Comfort In an Instant (the followup to last year’s Dinner in an Instant), featuring 75 recipes for dishes like mac and cheese, shepherd’s pie, and, per her Instagram, chicken wings; it hits shelves October 16.
• José Andrés is writing a book about feeding Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, as the chef recently told Eater. We Fed An Island will be released September 11, 2018 on Anthony Bourdain’s Ecco imprint. Bourdain said in a press release: “With a fraction of the resources available to the government, huge non-profits or NGOs, José Andrés and World Central Kitchen fed hundreds of thousands of desperate people in Puerto Rico, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria...To say that I am proud to publish this book, and to help tell this vital story, is a vast understatement.”
• Canada’s most famous restaurant, Montreal’s gluttonous Joe Beef, has a second cookbook in the works. Titled Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse, it comes out this fall.
• Chicago chef-restaurateur and Top Chef alum Stephanie Izard will publish her second cookbook on April 3. Gather & Graze will include 100-plus recipes for dishes such as banh mi burgers and roasted shishitos with sesame miso.
• Nashville cocktail guru Michael Wolf, co-owner of tiki bar Chopper, will publish Garden to Glass: Grow Your Drinking From the Ground Up, in November 19. The book will “[explore] the way bartenders, growers, distillers and the like are re-shaping the way cocktails are being made, presented and consumed through the incorporation of elements of the natural world.”
• Paris-based restaurant critic and food journalist Alexander Lobrano is writing a memoir: Titled My Place at the Table, it will tell his story of “how a shy boy from suburban Connecticut became the arbiter of what matters most to the French.”
• Attention, aspiring whiskey aficionados: Whiskey educator Robin Robinson has inked a deal to publish The Complete Whiskey Course: A Comprehensive Tasting School in Ten Classes, described as “the definitive guide to understanding and appreciating bourbon, rye, Canadian whisky, Irish whiskey, scotch, and other whiskeys of the world”; publish date TBA.