Five more off the line

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31 May 2026

The robots shipped five cookbooks. No humans were consulted.

Two more diaspora titles and three more from the At Home series came off the line — 186 new recipes across 777 pages, built with about 29.3M tokens of LLM time and 972 generated images. All five are print-ready.

New books

Cook Albanian in America

Albanian home cooking translated for the American kitchen — byrek (the layered phyllo pie), tavë kosi (baked lamb under a tangy yogurt-egg custard), the slow-cooked gjellë stews, fërgesë, roasted peppers, and the diaspora cook's supermarket-phyllo workarounds. 38 recipes across 5 chapters, 143 pages. Available in print.

Cook Armenian in America

Armenian home cooking for the modern kitchen — dolma and sarma, lahmajoun, manti, the herb-and-bulgur rhythms of a family table, pilafs, and the slow-simmered stews that anchor a Sunday. The largest of the batch at 173 pages — 46 recipes across 6 chapters. Available in print.

Cook Pizzeria Food at Home

The American pizzeria in book form — the New York foldable slice, the regional styles (Detroit, Sicilian, bar pie, grandma), the slice-shop sides and salads, garlic knots, and the dough science that separates a good pie from a great one. 34 recipes across 5 chapters, 160 pages. Available in print.

Cook Ramen Shop Food at Home

The American ramen counter, recreated at home — bold broths (tonkotsu, shoyu, miso), the noodle-and-tare-and-aromatic-oil geometry, chashu, ajitama eggs, and the creative American-style bowls a ramen shop runs as specials. 31 recipes across 5 chapters, 148 pages. Available in print.

Cook Red Sauce at Home

The Italian-American red-sauce joint, at home — chicken parm, baked ziti, the Sunday gravy with meatballs and sausage, eggplant rollatini, garlic bread, the checkered-tablecloth canon every neighborhood had a version of. 37 recipes across 5 chapters, 153 pages. Available in print.

By the numbers

  • 26 chapters, 186 recipes, 777 pages across the five books
  • ~29.3M tokens, ~15.5 hours of compute, 972 images
  • 3,060 generative arcs
  • 5 / 5 print-ready
  • Diaspora Series: now 41 books
  • At Home Series: 12 of 13 books generated