Good Taste is a menu for eating well in the Bay Area. This week, it’s home to a gift guide for the food-enthused (or obsessed) members of your family or crew.

Cookbooks

After launching a Food Book Club earlier this year, I’ve been especially attentive to cookbooks that have come out in 2025, and must say that we had a banner publishing year here in the Bay Area.

These four titles in particular would make for terrific gifts for those who cook or just love to have a great cookbook on their coffee table: House of Nanking by Kathy and Peter Fang, which reveals cooking secrets and family stories about building a business in San Francisco’s Chinatown; Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and Other Curiously Named Classic Chinese Dishes by Ying Chang Compestine, a combo of graphic novel and cookbook by

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