In preparation for the season, check out some new cookbooks as you get ready to come together around family and food for the holidays.

Lidia’s The Art of Pasta by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali: No one knows pasta like Lidia Bastianich. Through her bestselling cookbooks and award-winning television programs, she has introduced generations of home cooks to the wonders of Italy’s greatest export. Now, for the first time, she has compiled her decades of expertise into one authoritative volume: the definitive book on pasta. Through more than a hundred simple, perfect recipes, Lidia showcases pastas of all kinds–both fresh and dried, stuffed, baked, and sauced; in soups and pasta salads; plus, of course, directions for making fresh pasta doughs and sauces at home. The one-stop guide to all things pasta, the book is filled with simple, authentic, flavor-forward Italian dishes that the whole family will love.

Measure With Your Heart: Southern Home Cooking to Feed Your Family & Soul by Hannah Taylor: Measure with Your Heart is filled with Hannah’s twists on classic Southern cooking, with an emphasis on making everything from scratch so you know exactly what’s in it. Hannah Taylor is a culinary creator from Georgia known for her Southern charm, down-to-earth personality, and carefree “measure with your heart” cooking content. When Hannah began sharing her experimental cooking projects and snippets of her small-town life online, her platform exploded with support for her big-hearted spirit and off-the-cuff style, and her debut cookbook embraces this playful side of cooking.

The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook: Cookies and Treats from America’s Golden Era: 1868-1900 by Becky Libourel Diamond: With origins that date back to the nineteenth century and even earlier, the recipes in The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook have been adapted for today’s ingredients and appliances, allowing cooks to recreate them in their own modern kitchens. Each recipe will provide a colorful glimpse into the era, featuring the fascinating history behind each cookie, its ingredients and baking methods. There will also be sidebars throughout, offering tidbits of Christmas lore of the era.

Dorie’s Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan: Over the years, Dorie has created thousands of excellent recipes. And out of all of them, the ones she always comes back to are the simplest cakes. Some may have a dusting of powdered sugar or a drizzle of icing, but most of them are straight-from-the-oven cakes that are great as-is. They’re cakes that you probably already have all the ingredients for in your pantry. They’re the kinds of cakes you can whip up, put out and know that anyone with a hankering can come by and cut a sliver or a hunk. Any time. With expert advice and gorgeous illustrations by Nancy Pappas, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes celebrates the simple–but still exciting and special–with more than 100 recipes for easy-to-make, easy-to-love cakes.