By Bob Howard

— Farmhouse Rules by Nancy Fuller. Every recipe helps readers to make healthy, authentic cooking their daily standard: From Buttery Braised Radishes to Bacon Wrapped Trout and Johnny’s Carrot Cake, the authorshows readers how satisfying freshly cooked comfort food can be. Grand Central. $30.

— The Up South Cookbook by Nicole Taylor. The cookbook combines the home-cooked goodness of traditional Southern food with international flavors in recipes such as savory sweet potato pie, poke salad frittata and pecan cornbread dressing. The Countryman Press. $26.95.

— The Silver Spoon: Quick and Easy Italian Recipes from Phaidon. With chapters devoted to appetizers, first and second courses, sides, desserts and drinks, this book provides recipes that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. Phaidon. $29.95.

— The Vitamix Cookbook by Jodi Berg. The makers of the Vitamix blender offers 250 recipes for meals to make in your blender. William Morrow. $27.50.

— The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook by Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez. The book is an eclectic colletions of bread recipes such as unleavened flat breads, leavened flat bread and more. Clarkson Potter. $35.