Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and More

Move over, breakfast: lunch is about to become the most important meal of the day. At least if James Beard Award–winning author, photographer, and food blogger Peters (365: A Year of Everyday Cooking and Baking) has anything to say about it. With her latest gorgeously photographed cookbook, Berlin-based Peters serves up 115 simple but thoughtfully conceived recipes for soups, sandwiches, salads, pasta dishes, and more that focus on delivering a maximum of bold flavors with a minimum of ingredients and some smart use of pantry staples. While many of the recipes, such as cucumber and fennel salad with melon and Rosti with pistachio-feta dip, are vegetable-forward in nature, carnivores and pescatarians will also find a sampling of yummy treats, like Mediterranean meatloaf with vegetables and herbs and beet cream cheese and smoked fish on a bun.