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For more than 25 years, Surrey has published award-winning writing on food, dining, nutrition, and entertaining. Explore its extensive backlist of varied titles, including both general cookbooks and specialized cookbooks addressing the needs of people with diabetes and celiac disease, as well as vegetarian, low-fat, and low-carb titles. Agate Surrey also offers cocktail guides, books on entertaining, and a breadth of other lifestyle-oriented titles.

Recent Titles

Vegan Indian Cooking
140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes
Anupy Singla
140 Indian dishes that will appeal to both vegans and non-vegans alike.
Slow Cooker 101
Master the Slow Cooker with 101 Great Recipes
Perrin Davis
One of the first titles in Surrey's 101 series, devoted to presenting readers with 101 great, tested recipes in a given category, featuring great kitchen and how-to tips, beautiful color photographs, and a clean, simple, contemporary design.
Vegan 101
Master Vegan Cooking with 101 Great Recipes
Kate DeVivo
One of the debut titles in Surrey's 101 series, devoted to presenting readers with 101 great, tested recipes in a given category, featuring great kitchen and how-to tips, beautiful color photographs, and a clean, simple, contemporary design.
Baking Basics and Beyond
Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro
Pat Sinclair
120 delectable recipes and the techniques you need—thoroughly and clearly explained—to bake like a professional, now with full-color photos throughout.
Chicago Spaces
Inspiring Interiors from the Editors of Chicago Home + Garden Magazine
Jan Parr
A lavish introduction to the best design and interior work coming out of Chicago and the midwest.
Soup & Bread Cookbook
Building Community One Pot at a Time
Martha Bayne
A beautiful, craft-oriented recipe book/social history/call to action focused on the world's most popular food.
Good Eating's Best of the Best
Great Recipes of the Past Decade from the Chicago Tribune Test Kitchen
Carol Mighton Haddix
The very best recipes published in the Chicago Tribune's Good Eating section through the last decade, as voted by readers and the section's editors.
Talk With Your Mouth Full
The Hearty Boys Cookbook
Steve McDonagh, Dan Smith
The paperback reissue of the popular cookbook by celebrated Chicago-based caterers and restaurateurs The Hearty Boys
The Puglian Cookbook
Bringing the Flavors of Puglia Home
Viktorija Todorovska
A beautifully illustrated collection of delicious, simple, healthful, and easy-to-prepare recipes from the Puglian region of southern Italy.
Plancha
150 Great Recipes for Spanish-Style Grilling
Liliane Otal
A terrific full-color guide to the traditional style of Spanish flat-slab grilling, with 150 great recipes.
1,001 Best Grilling Recipes
Delicious, Easy-to-Make Recipes from Around the World
Rick Browne
A virtual encyclopedia of grilling, featuring great recipes from around the globe.
The Indian Slow Cooker
Anupy Singla
Unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using classic slow-cooker techniques.
The Modern Mixologist
Contemporary Classic Cocktails
Tony Abou-Ganim
The definitive twenty-first century cocktail guide, with 60 great recipes for drinks new and old.
Vegan Baking Classics
Delicious, Easy-to-Make Traditional Favorites
Kelly Rudnicki
Vegan Baking Classics is a one-stop guide to delicious, everyday baked goods free of any animal ingredients.
Gluten-Free Baking Classics, Second Edition
Annalise G. Roberts
Annalise Roberts shares her most wonderful creations with the celiac community. Her cakes and muffins are as light as those made with standard flour; her pie and tart shells are perfect; her breads are tender and delicious.
The Veganopolis Cookbook
A Manual for Great Vegan Cooking
George Black, David Stowell
A practical, hands-on, no-attitude guide to great vegan cooking, from the founders of the famous Veganopolis Cafeteria, with 70+ terrific recipes, useful instructions, tips, and information, and a simple, easy-to-use format, with color-photo insert.
The Food Allergy Mama's Baking Book
Great Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Treats for the Whole Family
Kelly Rudnicki
Great allergen-free baking recipes perfect for the whole family, plus tricks and tips for families dealing with food allergies, featuring beautiful color photos throughout, written in a fresh, contemporary voice by a compelling new blogger/author.
Sweetness
Delicious Baked Treats for Every Occasion
Sarah Levy
A fun but straight-up guide to making the most delicious sweets, treats, and confections you can imagine, for those occasions when you want the very best, either for yourself or to impress someone else.
The Seasons on Henry's Farm
A Year of Food and Life on an Organic Farm
Terra Brockman
This journal/memoir of a five-generation Illinois farming family takes readers from the soil to the supper table through 52 meditative, closely observed "seasons" on an organic farm.
The Gluten-Free Good Health Cookbook
The Delicious Way to Strengthen Your Immune System and Neutralize Inflammation
Annalise G. Roberts, Claudia Pillow, Ph.D.
A breakthrough guide to strengthening the immune system, preventing disease, and losing weight by eating real food.