Title:	Cooking as Therapy: How to Improve Mental Health Through Cooking
	Author:	Debra Borden
	Published:	October 14, 2025, Alcove Press
	No. of Pages:	288
	Cover Price:	$19.99 Hardcover, $19.99 Paperback, $14.99 Kindle

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Most of us will admit that we could use a bit of therapy for one reason or another. Debra Borden, a social worker who works in New York and New Jersey, has found a way to merge therapy sessions and cooking in her book Cooking as Therapy: How to Improve Mental Health Through Cooking. Many of us will enjoy a book that focus’ on self help and gives us a way to cook while healing.

The book includes recipes to use during each chapter of therapy sessions; many of those recipes are appealing, and all of them are fairly quick and easy. They call for ingredients that are easy to obtain and are available at mainstream grocery stores. They are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients first, followed by step-by-step instructions which include instructions to complete the instructions during the therapy session. There are no photographs of any of the dishes. The book is entirely prose.

There are also suggestions for certain foods and tasks that will help in therapy sessions, such as chopping or slicing to relieve stress. This can be helpful.

All told, anyone who loves self-help books and also loves to cook can find satisfaction from this book.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.