Fish Butchery. Mastering The Catch, Cut And Craft is a book by Josh Niland. It was designed by Daniel New. Titles are set in Kobe from VJ-Type. The body text is in Robert Slimbach’s Minion.

Fish Butchery won the 2024 ABDA award for Best Designed Cookbook. From Niland’s website:

James Beard award-winning author and culinary game-changer Josh Niland returns with the ultimate guide to the art of Fish Butchery, with expert techniques and groundbreaking recipes that are an urgent call for action on culinary sustainability.

Josh’s multi award-winning debut The Whole Fish Cookbook created a new blueprint for fish cookery, while its bestselling sequel Take One Fish unpacked 15 different species to reveal their true gastronomic potential. In this latest book, Josh continues to open our eyes to the potential of fish in the kitchen.

Presented in three stunning sections―Catch, Cut and Craft―it’s both a challenge to the food industry to do things differently and a dazzling manual to the eye-popping potential in each and every fish.

Tava is a recipe book about Eastern European baking and desserts from Romania and beyond, written by Irina Georgescu and published by Hardie Grant Books. Design by Evi O. Studio, using Jäger by VJ-Type throughout. Body copy is set in a combination of Klim Type Foundry’s National and Feijoa.

This Japan travel guide was conceived by Hello Sandwich, designed by Evi O. and Susan Le at Evi O. Studio, typeset by Megan Ellis, and published by Hardie Grant Books. Titles are set in Cako. Body copy is set in GT Super Text, Euclid Square, and at least one yet unidentified Japanese typeface.

Japan is a comprehensive guide written by Hello Sandwich, a local blogger as popular as she is stylish. Design blogger and Japanophile Ebony Bizys, aka Hello Sandwich, has been living in Tokyo since 2010 and has discovered the best of this unique country. All key destinations are covered, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Hakone, Sapporo, Okinawa and Naoshima. Hello Sandwich Japan is for people who appreciate aesthetics, good food and a rich culture, and who will enjoy the neon madness of Tokyo as much as the Buddhist calm of Mount Koya.

Cartography by Emily Maffei

Bitter Honey: recipes and stories from the island of Sardinia by Letitia Clark was published by Hardie Grant Books:

In Bitter Honey, seasoned chef Letitia Clark invites the reader into her home on one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean Sea – Sardinia. The recipes in this book do not take long to make, but you can taste the ethos behind every one of them – one which invites you to slow down, and nourish yourself with fresh food, friends and family.

All titles and most headlines are set in Canopée, which is also used for page numbers. Body text is set in Self Modern, GT America Mono, and Calluna; selected details use a wide style of GT America.

From Hardie Grant:

Tim Anderson shows you how you can build your own delicious bowl from scratch as well as how you can construct your very own bento (Japan's beloved and beautiful lunch boxes) from the comfort of your own home. Fun to make (and eat) JapanEasy: Bowls & Bento celebrates the versatility, simplicity and joy of Japanese food. This is everyday self-care and self-love, in bowl and bento form.

Alias Harbour and GT Maru Mega are used for headline type, with GT Maru for secondary type. Japanese text is set in Hiragino Kaku Gothic. See also JapanEasy and Vegan JapanEasy, from the same series.

Hardie Grant—

In Vegan JapanEasy, Tim Anderson taps into Japan’s rich culture of cookery that’s already vegan or very nearly vegan, so there are no sad substitutes and zero shortcomings on taste.

Alias Harbour is used for headline text. See also Alias Harbour used for Tim Anderson’s earlier JapanEasy (2017). The wide capitals are from PP Monument (Pangram Pangram). Japanese texts are set in Hiragino Maru Gothic (from Jiyu-kobo and Screen Graphic Solutions Co.); The sans serifs used for smaller point sizes in the book interior are ABC Monument Grotesk and ABC Monument Grotesk Mono (Dinamo) as well as Knockout (not pictured).

Rig Shaded 3D typeface used on the cover of Tim Anderson’s Japanese cookbook, Tokyo Stories. Described as a love letter to Japan’s capital city, Tokyo Stories is a journey through the boulevards and backstreets of Tokyo.

Rig Shaded is used in the title “TOKYO” on the cover and for section headings within the book. The styles that were combined in layers are Bold Face, Rig Shaded, and Bold Shading Coarse.

Evi O. picked two very different faces to complete the book cover. Moloch adds character to “STORIES”; compressed and expanded weights of the more neutral GT America seem to be used for top and bottom of cover, and the book spine.

From Waterstones:

JapanEasy is designed to be an introduction to the world of Japanese cooking via some of its most accessible (but authentic) dishes. The recipes here do not ‘cheat’ in any way; there are no inadequate substitutions for obscure ingredients: this is the real deal.

Alias Harbour is used for cover and title type. The font used for Japanese text is unidentified.

“In Green Kitchen at Home, bestselling authors David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl share over 100 vegetarian recipes for the family favourites which feature in their own kitchen every day of the week. From quick, delicious weekday breakfasts and dinners, to more elaborate meals for weekend celebrations, this is food that will make you look and feel great.” – description from the publisher’s website.

This vegetarian cookbook by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl is set beautifully in GT Sectra and JAF Domus by book designer Clare Skeats.