Happy spring equinox! Here, a gift just for the occasion: Eater’s annual spring cookbook preview. The list contains all the best cookbooks of the season, the ones that promise to refresh your cooking routine, whether you’re in the kitchen daily, prefer a project, or consider yourself a dedicated or even occasional home baker.

A preview of the preview from Eater’s Rebecca Flint Marx: “Caribbean-inspired cooking goes vegan; the hand-wringing weeknight dinner genre gets a shot to the arm; cocktails take their cues from the Zodiac; the complexities of Korean American identity find nuanced expression on the plate; flour gets a welcome reappraisal; an 89-year-old Gullah matriarch makes her debut. There are noodles and curries and matcha and lemon posset tarts; there is barbecue, and there is lox. And there is travel: from the Himalayas to Portugal, from Mexico to South Carolina’s Edisto Island, from California to Jaipur.”

Now that you’re itching to see the titles that match these descriptions, click through to the full list. I’m personally looking forward to making those matcha and lemon posset tarts from Bake Off star Benjamina Ebuehi’s A Good Day to Bake, out now.

Here, some more things to herald spring.

Spring cookbooks are here. | Andrea D'Aquino

Spice company Diaspora Co. is marking the new season by making a few new spices available for preorder to arrive in May. They include a hibiscus sourced from Manipur in Northeast India, and a three-spice pack of the brand’s Baraka cardamom, Kashmiri saffron, and Peni Miris Cinnamon that comes with a Zeenat Kulavoor-designed card to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
The latest cookware launch from Great Jones is a cooling rack they’re calling the Big Chill. It’s sold separately in shades of blueberry or raspberry or in a bundle with the popular Holy Sheet pan.
Legacy cookware brand Le Creuset also has a new product in its lineup: The Le Creuset bread oven, made from the brand’s traditional enamel cast iron. Home cooks have long made no-knead bread in a Dutch oven, the kitchen tool for which Le Creuset perhaps known best, but this new oven, consisting of a pan and domed lid, promises maximal rise and a golden crust.
Coach has released a mini collection paying tribute to New York City appetizing institution Zabar’s. There’s a sweater, T-shirt, and a bag emblazoned with the Zabar’s logo and a partially eaten bagel, and they’re all selling out quickly.
Also likely to sell out, Puma’s sneaker collaboration with White Castle. My favorite detail is the little “5¢” right by the tongue of the shoe, a nod to the original price of White Castle sliders and not, unfortunately, to the cost of the sneakers; that price is $120.
Mister Parmesan, as the Los Angeles Times describes it, is a “comical new source of apparel for pasta lovers.” The line of (mostly) hats decorated with the names of pasta shapes was co-founded by Samuel Schiffer, the lead pasta maker at Pasadena’s Semolina Artisanal Pasta, and is available for preorder now. This bucatini bucket hat seems like the right move for spring.

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