From weeknight-friendly dishes to low-stress baking, today’s most influential cookbooks are meeting readers where they are. In the years following the pandemic, many cookbooks have shifted their ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to bring the Taliban to heel. This deterioration is striking, given Islamabad’s ...

Magnus Marsden has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for ...

Sales of baking cookbooks are up about 80% over the past year, according to research group Circana. And that's bucking a downward trend in cookbooks overall. If a book filled with cookie recipes ...

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working with Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF to ...

The best cookbooks of 2025 inspired us to return to the kitchen again and again. They brought us not only inspiration and deliciousness but solace, beauty, delight and a sense of home in a challenging ...

2026 is upon us, and we have a suggestion for a resolution: Why not ring in the new year by vowing to shake up your cooking routine? Whether you're hoping to boost your protein intake, get better ...

Whether you're shopping for a gift for someone who enjoys cooking or simply building out your own cookbook collection, you've come to the right place. There were dozens of amazing new cookbooks that ...

U.S. officials rushed Mohammad Nabi onto a plane out of Afghanistan so quickly in 2021 that he didn’t have time to bring his passport, his wife or his eight children. More than four years later, the ...

With the holiday season coming to a close shortly, a gift guide to cooking treats and meals by some Chicago-based chefs might offer ideas for last-minute gifts. Here’s a selection of five cookbooks ...