Meliz's Kitchen (2022)

Turkish-Cypriot home cooking from a self-taught cook, and it reads like it: easy-to-follow recipes meant for family meals rather than dinner parties. The subtitle, Simple Turkish-Cypriot Comfort Food and Fresh Family Feasts, is an accurate summary of what you get. This is the book for the weeks when you want big flavors without a specialist shopping trip. It sits closer to Turkish and eastern Mediterranean cooking than most of this list, so it fills a gap if your Levantine and Persian shelf feels full. Berg's follow-up, Dinner Tonight, pushes even further toward the weeknight end.