Want a cookbook? Plan on spending three hours at this culinary Mecca, which has the largest collection of cookbooks and food writing in America..
You're looking for an out-of-print cookbook? You need advice on how to cook kangaroo? You want to know the best kind of blowtorch for making perfect caramel atop a crème brûlée? These are all actual inquiries we have heard hanging out over the years at Kitchen Arts & Letters, New York's most esteemed and beloved stop for cookbooks of all stripes.
Biggest collection of cookbooks you've ever seen. Exotic, out of print, prestige, rare, vintage, ancient -- you name it, they got it. Heaven for the intersection of food nerds and bibliophiles. Truly staggering range of cookery and any writing on eating, plus devoted staff ready to help you find whatever recipe, for anything, using anything.
This shop teaches its customers to be linguini-literate.:
The Scene
One block north of the 92nd Street Y is a unique culinary bookstore catering to cooks and other food buffs. The small shop is home to hundreds of popular titles by top food...