Short Stack is a series of small-format cookbooks authored by America’s top culinary talents. Each edition is a collectible, single-subject booklet packed with recipes that offer ingenious new ways to cook our favorite ingredients.

Coconut Whether you're a recent coconut convert or a longtime lover, Ben Mims' cookbook will give you newfound admiration for this hard-shelled fruit. This edition cracks this ingredient open from all angles, with recipes like a Black Pepper-Coconut Dutch Baby, Soaked Coconut & Semolina Cake and Indian Coconut & Red Cabbage Slaw.

Ginger as an ingredient, ginger is downright generous, its flavor expressive and complimentary.

Avocado Avocados dominate the menus of hip restaurants, the hashtags of social media, the recipes of cookbooks and websites, the annals of special diets. Katie Quinn taps into this popular zeitgeist, while also examining some offbeat applications for this beloved ingredient. Got avocado fever? This book will bring more cowbell, with recipes like avocado baked eggs, avocado fries with spicy mayo, and avocado guava handpies.

Chocolate a must-have for every sweets lover.

Butter The edition every cook must own is here. Beloved cookbook author Dorie Greenspan gives us a spread of recipes with classic French roots that remind us why butter is the reigning champion in our kitchens. From delicious pastries to succulent b̩arnaise-coated steak au poivre, this rich edition will lead to the kind of comforting, delicious meals we all crave.

Cucumbers  Snappy. Refreshing. Pickle-worthy. Get to know this summertime staple in new and exciting ways, from inspired salads to simple and delicious cooked (yes, you can cook a cucumber!), centerpieces. This edition will turn you into a cuke connoisseur through recipes like Soy & Wasabi-Glazed Cucumbers with Crab & Lemon and Cucumber-Honeydew Paletas