Kitchen Arts & Letters, books on food and drink
Book store · Upper East Side ·
Specialty bookstore for wine, culinary themes & out-of-print titles
Specialty bookstore for wine, culinary themes & out-of-print titles
"An independent New York bookstore specializing in food literature and cookbooks, known for its deep stock of vintage recipe booklets, pamphlets, and other paper ephemera that make distinctive, nostalgic additions to goodie bags." - Nat Belkov
"A cookbook shop offering cooking inspiration in multiple languages." - Kevin Chau
"Has everything you could ever want as a pastry chef, and they’ll let you sit and read without disturbing you—it’s the perfect bookstore for introverts; the last thing I bought was a croissant book as I was testing out their version of an almond croissant, and they used marzipan instead of an almond cream." - Sophie Friedman
"My favorite store for cookbooks, which I’ve been visiting for over 20 years; they have the ultimate selection of cookbooks, from the oldest classics to the newest releases." - Nancy DePalma
"The New York culinary bookstore currently stocks Martha Stewart’s Cakes (2013), Cookie Perfection (2019), and Fruit Desserts (2021) (all three are on backorder). Managing partner Matt Sartwell says Stewart’s baking books "have always had a good rep[utation] and we stock them and sell them really well," but adds that "people don’t come sentimentally looking for copies of Martha Stewart’s [1983]Quick Cook." He suggests the culinary style in many older volumes "has changed in the same way that the way Martha dresses has changed, and so the food isn’t quite as appealing," while also noting Entertaining’s outsized influence — "It showed Martha in Laura Ashley dresses looking poised and confident, and that was appealing to people for whom ambitious [hosting] was something they hadn’t tried before." Sartwell also observes that "I think it’s something of a fantasy of publishers that somebody might collect everything someone has done," and that the last time the shop sold Entertaining it went for a modest $40." - Bettina Makalintal