Room at the Table: Gluten-Free Recipes, Stories and Tips to Share With the People You Love

This handsomely photographed book offers gluten-free recipes developed by a registered dietician nutritionist. Author Lisa Samuels does include the likes of breads and biscuits, cakes and cookies, but the bulk of the recipes are for navigating everyday life when gluten must be avoided.

Samuels favors vegetable-based cooking and offers an appealing assortment of dishes such as roasted beet and citrus salad, fresh corn polenta, and herby, crispy falafel. These easily compliment meat courses such as chicken-zucchini meatballs, olive oil-poached halibut with eggplant and olive gremolata, and pulled pork barbecue sandwiches.

But if baked goods are your real motivation for seeking a gluten-free book, you can turn to browned butter cornbread, sourdough pancakes, chocolate pecan pie, and lemon olive oil cake.

Many recipes come with sidebar note on making ahead or riffing to create your own verisons.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.