Happy 2026!

Happy 2026 from Tara’s Multicultural Table! 2025 was another big year of travel, food, and amazing cookbooks.

Total views for the year were 1,875,528! The countries with the most visitors were the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Germany, New Zealand, Netherlands, France, and Sweden.

Thank you all so much for your continued support and I am excited to see what new recipes and travel 2026 brings.

Here are the most popular 2025 blog posts:

• Pasta con Salsa Caruso (Uruguayan Pasta with Caruso Sauce) (updated post)
• Martabak Telur (Javanese Savory Stuffed Pancakes) (updated post)
• Schmalznudeln (Bavarian-Style Doughnuts)
• Creamsicle Crush
• Stroopwafels (Dutch Syrup-Filled Waffle Cookies) (updated post)
• Kong Sik Nai Cha (Hong Kong-Style Milk Tea) (updated post)
• Pişi (Turkish Fried Dough)
• Caramel Apple Empanadas (updated post)
• Ravioli Ricotta e Spinaci (Spinach Ricotta Ravioli) (updated post)
• Farsangi Fánk (Hungarian Carnival Doughnuts) (updated post)

Here are the most viewed posts in 2025 (none were actually from 2025):

• Pannekoek (South African Crepes with Cinnamon Sugar)
• Pani Popo (Samoan Sweet Coconut Buns)
• Blini (Russian Crepes)
• Lepinja (Balkan Flatbread)
• Künefe (Turkish Sweet Cheese Pastry)
• Toasted Marshmallow Syrup
• Sopa de Fideo (Mexican Noodle Soup)
• Poffertjes (Dutch Mini Pancakes)
• Pasta with Garlic Butter Sauce
• Pretzel Bread

My Personal Favorites of the Year:

• Egg Yolk Onigiri
• Appenzeller Chäs-Schoope (Swiss Toasted Bread with Cheese)
• Matcha Scones
• Corzetti Stampati (Ligurian Stamped Pasta)
• Nussecken (German Nut Corners)
• Baltic Fried Bread
• Panisses (Provençal Chickpea Fritters)
• Fox Nerikiri
• Nudle s Mákem (Czech Noodles with Poppy Seeds)
• Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

Favorite Cookbooks:

I started doing regular cookbook reviews in 2015 and have come across so many amazing books over the past ten years!

Here are my ten favorites from 2025 (not necessarily released in 2025, but reviewed and not including digital copies):

• Marzipankartoffeln (Marzipan Potatoes) and The German Christmas Cookbook
• Kokoro (Crunchy Corn Sticks) and Chop Chop
• Ghraybe (Crumbly Butter Cookies) and Taboon
• Tataki Cucumber and Real Japanese Cooking
• Pebete and Pan y Dulce
• Salted Vanilla Honey Cream Coffee and Brew This Book
• Cholermüs and Simply Swiss
• Jeyuk Kokkeum (Stir-Fried Spicy Pork) and Cook Korea
• Octopus-Shaped Hot Dogs and Japanese Cooking with Kids
• Nargessi (Spinach Onion Omelet) and A Persian Kitchen Tale

Favorite Digital Cookbooks:

I have been getting more digital copies (PDFs) of books to review over the last couple of years and didn’t want to leave them out of the top ten simply because I didn’t have a copy to stack in a photo.

Here were my personal favorites over the last year (not necessarily released in 2025):

• Gulasch alla Triestina (Beef Goulash Trieste Style) and Adriatico
• Garlic Butter Crispy Chicken Rice and Long Day? Cook This.
• Sweet and Sour Pineapple Meatballs and Sama Sama
• Kürbiskernbrötchen (Pumpkin Seed Rolls) and German Home Kitchen
• Mauritian Bol Renversé and This is a Book About Rice
• Pistachio Skillet Cookie and Sugar & Spice
• Qing Tang Mian (Clear Broth Noodles) and Zao Fan
• Tomato and Lapsang Souchong Salad and Bitter
• Crunchy Cinnamon Æbleskiver and Aebleskiver
• Plant-Based Chai Custard Creams and One Bake, Two Ways

Travel:

For travel, I finally shared the posts of our time at the Christmas markets in Germany last December:

• Kartoffelpuffer (German Potato Pancakes) and Munich Christmas Markets
• Feuerzangenbowle (German Fire Tongs Punch) and Nuremberg Christmas Market
• Gebrannte Mandeln (German Candied Almonds) and Frankfurt Christmas Market
• Eierpunsch (German Egg Punch) and Heidelberg Christmas Market
• Schmalznudeln (Bavarian-Style Doughnuts) and Munich
• Nussecken (German Nut Corners) and Frankfurt am Main

We also spent two wonderful weeks in Japan seeing friends and Kyoto for the first time:

• Matcha Scones and Asakusa, Tokyo
• Chocolate Nama Yatsuhashi and Kyoto Station
• Iced Matcha Espresso Latte and Kyoto
• Fox Nerikiri and Kyoto

We also spent more time around our current home in Virginia and visited Virginia Beach:

• Ćevapi (Balkan Grilled Meat) and Clarendon, Virginia
• Creamsicle Crush and Virginia Beach Oceanfront
• Stuffed Meatballs and Virginia Beach

Happy 2026!