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How to Cook Everything Books in Order

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman contains 15 books, published between 1998 and 2024. The first book is Simple Recipes for Great Food (1998) and the newest is How To Cook Everything Kids (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1998–2024
Pages on record
2,238 in 7 of 15 books
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How to Cook Everything is Mark Bittman's nonfiction cookbook line, with 15 books catalogued between 1998 and 2024. The How to Cook Everything guide teaches recipes and kitchen techniques from scratch in plain steps, written for novice and practised cooks alike. Other titles in the line focus on Quick Cooking, Holiday Cooking, Vegetarian recipes, Meat, Christmas and Thanksgiving. How To Cook Everything Kids (2024) is the newest addition.

How many How to Cook Everything books are there?

How to Cook Everything has 15 books, released between 1998 and 2024.

How to Cook Everything Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 How to Cook Everything books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman, book 1 of the How to Cook Everything series (1998)
  2. Cover of Simple Recipes Anyone Can Cook by Mark Bittman, book 2 of the How to Cook Everything series (2003)
  3. Cover of Holiday Cooking by Mark Bittman, book 3 of the How to Cook Everything series (2003)
  4. Cover of Quick Cooking by Mark Bittman, book 4 of the How to Cook Everything series (2003)
  5. Cover of Easy Weekend Cooking by Mark Bittman, book 5 of the How to Cook Everything series (2003)
  6. Cover of Bittman Takes on America's Chefs by Mark Bittman, book 6 of the How to Cook Everything series (2005)
  7. Cover of How to Grill Everything by Mark Bittman, book 14 of the How to Cook Everything series (2018)
  1. 1
    Simple Recipes for Great Food1998 · 944 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998944
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  2. 2
    Simple Recipes Anyone Can Cook2003 · 210 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003210
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  3. 3
    Holiday Cooking2003 · 132 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003132
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  4. 4
    Quick Cooking2003 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003144
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  5. 5
    Easy Weekend Cooking2003 · 132 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003132
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  6. 6
    Bittman Takes on America's Chefs2005 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005260
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  7. 7
    Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  8. 8
    Meat2010 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010416
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  9. 9
    Christmas2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  10. 10
    Thanksgiving2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  11. 11
    How to Cook Everything Fast2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  12. 12
    The Basics2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  13. 13
    Simple Recipes for the Best Baking2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  14. 14
    How to Grill Everything2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  15. 15
    How To Cook Everything Kids2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Is there a chronological order for How to Cook Everything?

No separate chronological order is on record for How to Cook Everything, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read How to Cook Everything books in order?

You should read the How to Cook Everything books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each How to Cook Everything book also stands alone.

Where to start with How to Cook Everything

Start with Simple Recipes for Great Food (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest How to Cook Everything book?

How To Cook Everything Kids (2024) is the newest How to Cook Everything book released so far.

Is there a new How to Cook Everything book coming?

No next How to Cook Everything book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

How to Cook Everything at a glance

Still running
How to Cook Everything is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
Release pace
How to Cook Everything books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,238 pages across the 7 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 210 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most How to Cook Everything books, 7 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the How to Cook Everything books are about

6 of the 15 How to Cook Everything books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cooking is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Cooking 5 of 6 books
  • Menus 4 of 6 books
  • Cookbooks 3 of 6 books
  • Quick and easy cooking 3 of 6 books
  • Cooking & Food 2 of 6 books
  • Nonfiction 2 of 6 books
  • Vegetarian cooking 2 of 6 books

More books by Mark Bittman

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.