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

Celebrity foodie and cookbook author Alton Brown knows a thing or two about where to get great cooking tips. He suggests every cook keep this classic on hand.

There’s a magic in old, tattered, stained cookbooks that transports you back to another time and place, when certain recipes were made with love and relied upon by countless Southern cooks, when you ...