These are the Spring Cookbooks Chefs and Cooks Will Love

As much as this spring’s crop of new cookbooks provide inspiration for new dishes and guidance for finessing technique, more than anything, these books tell some great stories. Think of this as a series of blueprints of how different chefs and restaurateurs beat the odds (or didn’t) in a variety of situations, from a Vietnamese refugee who started one of Miami’s best restaurants, to an unlikely duo from New York who turned an old Savannah...