Falastin (2020)

Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley's Palestinian cookbook is the best balance on this list between real tradition and real weeknights. Its more than 110 recipes are reworked for a modern home kitchen, and the book frames them as everyday meals rather than feast-day projects. That makes it the natural next step after Ottolenghi Simple: the same clear writing and carefully tested style, with deeper roots in Palestinian home cooking. It asks a little more of your pantry than the quickest books here, so stock up on sumac, za'atar and good olive oil and you are most of the way there.