Homemade Ramen

A 2026 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee

A Washington Post Best Cookbook of the Year
A Serious Eats Best Cookbook of 2025
One of The Strategist's Best Cookbooks to Gift This Year

Everything you need to know to make better-than-restaurant ramen at home.

Ramen, like pizza or hamburgers, is a bundle of traditions, conventions, cultural trends, proscriptions, and crazed opinions. As a food writer, recipe developer, and ramen geek, Sho Spaeth has spent over two decades trying to make sense of it all, adapting common ramen-making techniques to his kitchen at home, and coming up with recipes that are representative of a range of ramen styles.

Recipes include:

Classic shoyu ramen • Shio tanmen with clam stock • Miso ramen • Spicy tantanmen • Pork rib tsukemen • Soupless ramen (mazemen) • Vegan chickpea ramen

With over 100 step-by-step photographs, Homemade Ramen shows you how to make every element in 13 bowls of ramen from scratch, from the soup and seasoning to the springy noodles and a wide range of toppings. More than that, the book shows that making ramen is easy, and it gives you everything you need to geek out on ramen on your own.

100 color photographs