SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.99
Antonio and Lucia
Recipes and Stories from My Australian Calabrian Kitchen
Riccardo Momesso
Plum, HB, 9781742610474
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The story of Antonio and Lucia – the parents of Riccardo Momesso, chef and co-owner of Melbourne’s Sarti restaurant – is the story of many Italian immigrants. They started a family, bought a small farm, opened a milk bar. All along, they followed the food traditions of their home: preserving vegetables in season, raising their own meat and making smallgoods to ensure nothing was wasted, eating heartily in line with the Calabrian ‘more is more’ food philosophy. Many of the generous, simple but elegant recipes here come with childhood memories of suburban foraging: wild artichokes in Werribee, fishing for sardines in Williamstown. Dishes such as seared yellowbelly with prickly pear salad feel like Calabria meets the Murray, while the inclusion of Sarti’s pistachio pannacotta feels like a gift.
Antonio Carluccio
The Collection
Antonio Carluccio
Quadrille Publishing, HB, 9781849491860
$45.41 exGST $49.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This is a Carluccio one-stop-shop – a compendium of 300 of his best recipes. It’s a no-fuss affair: simply and elegantly presented recipes organised like a languorous Italian meal that progresses from antipasti through zuppe and pasta primi to meat and fish secondi and then on to a finale of baked honey figs or – why not? – Carluccio’s supereasy tiramisu. Provenance is recognised: recipes span the country from Venetian eel baked with bay leaves to Sardinian ravioli stuffed with potato, mint and sage. Simplicity is key: pasta dishes include classics such as spaghetti with garlic, oil and chilli; orecchietti with broccoli; and a Neapolitan-style ziti (lasagne-type dish). But everything is presented as eminently achievable – there’s no one better to guide you through a culinary challenge such as il gran bollito misto.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $125.00
Balance and Harmony
Neil Perry
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781740459082
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
It’s rare to encounter a cookbook full of recipes that look complex, but are in fact remarkably easy to follow – usually, the opposite applies. Neil Perry’s guide to the secrets of Asian cooking is divided into chapters focusing on soups, salads, braising and boiling, steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying, tea-smoking, curry and spice pastes, and we can attest (based on intensive testing!) that every dish is easy to emulate in the home kitchen. The introductory text discusses finding ‘balance and harmony’ in Asian cuisine and gives a handy run-down of the cooking equipment and ingredients required (all easily accessed), setting the home cook on a delicious journey of discovery. The emphasis is on Chinese cuisine (Perry’s all-abiding passion), though Thai, Malaysian and Indo- Chinese flavours also feature. Sumptuously presented and offered at a ridiculously low price, this is an essential buy!
Easy Weekends
Neil Perry
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781742669731
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This is entry-level Perry, easy and approachable recipes for everyday cooking – specifically, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Friday you’ll need ... maybe a simple late supper? Something easy for a no-fuss dinner party? Or a special dinner à deux? All covered. Saturday brings a few good brunch ideas and dinners for nights in: roast blue-eye with fennel and olives; an honest-to-goodness hamburger with thrice-cooked chips; and stirfried pork with snake beans and black funghi. Sunday is all about breakfasts, brunch and relaxed dinners featuring decadent desserts such as peach, ginger and vanilla pudding and passionfruit tart. Yum.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.99
The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Marcella Hazan
Pan, HB, 9781742610016
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
First published in 1992 and selling steadily ever since, this new edition combines and expands two of Marcella Hazan’s seminal early cookbooks: The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking. It includes all of the dishes that made those two books so popular, plus 35 new recipes. Hazan says that the new book ‘is meant to be used as a kitchen handbook … for cooks of every level … who want an accessible and comprehensive guide to the products, the techniques and the dishes that constitute imperishable Italian cooking’.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $89.95
The Food I Love
Neil Perry
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781740457170
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Perry introduces this as a ‘how to cook’ book rather than a recipe collection (although it boasts 200 of them), and in it he shares practical knowledge and tips to help us become better home cooks. He starts with basics – how to make a perfect soft-boiled egg, or an omelette – and proceeds to help us perfect sandwiches, salads, soups and so on. In sections on meat and fish, the focus is on technique: how to steam, roast, grill, barbecue, fry and braise. In a deviation for Perry, there’s not an Asian ingredient in sight – instead, the infl uences are from Italy, Spain and Morocco. A great kitchen staple for reference, as well as recipes.
Gary Mehigan
Lantern Cookery Classics
Gary Mehigan
Lantern, PB, 9781921383151
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
George Calombaris
Lantern Cookery Classics
George Calombaris
Lantern, PB, 9781921383120
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $69.99
Gingerboy
Creative Street Food
Teage Ezard, Chris Donnellan
Harper Collins, HB, 9780732293475
$18.14 exGST $19.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
At Teage Ezard’s Melbourne restaurant Gingerboy, Asian hawker-style food meets modern Australian cooking in a Melbourne laneway – a perfect match. While adaptation is key, chefs Ezard and Donnellan never lose touch with their source, and a love of Thai, Malaysian and Chinese flavours and dishes dominates. Cooking seasonally is also at the core of the Gingerboy philosophy, with the wintery selection focusing on braised, steamed and claypot dishes, and the summer options dominated by refreshing, crisp and cool flavours.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $54.95
Gran Cocina Latina
The Food of Latin America
Maricel E Presilla
Norton, HB, 9780393050691
$45.41 exGST $49.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Latinophiles and foodie omnivores with an eye to the next big thing will lose themselves in this definitive reference on the cuisines of Latin America – from Mexico to Argentina and the islands of the Caribbean. Its author – a New Jersey chef born in Cuba and with a doctorate in history – spent 30 years researching it, and she enlivens the encyclopaedic text with cultural insights and snippets of personal experience in a way that’s reminiscent of food-writing pioneers like Elizabeth David. History is a strong focus, and insights into how native and Iberian traditions – along with a strong African influence from the Caribbean – amalgamated into a vibrant criollo cuisine are woven through the text. Five hundred recipes bring the story to life.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $55.00
Great Mekong
Luke Nguyen
Hardie Grant, HB, 9781742705125
$45.41 exGST $49.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In this, the book of his most recent SBS series, Luke Nguyen follows the mighty Mekong from China through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Along the way he cooks with locals and finds inspiration for vivid, spicy and sometimes surprising dishes such as the rice-paddy frog curry he discovers in northern Thailand, the claypot fish he slates back to Genghis Khan’s grandson, and the cola chicken described by an ancient Cambodian man. The river links the cuisines of this fascinating region; we learn about the lesserknown – including Myanmar’s light, delicate curries, Laos’ duck-blood and red-ant egg salad – and are also given Nguyen’s versions of classics such as green papaya salad and a tom yum soup made with Mekong catfi sh.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.99
Hugh's Three Good Things on a Plate
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Bloomsbury, HB, 9781408828588
$40.86 exGST $44.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
HFW’s latest book is about getting back to basics, and for Hugh the basics come in threes. He claims to have uncovered an essential truth of the kitchen: that three is the magic number for flavour combinations. And it’s hard to argue: tomato, mozzarella, basil; asparagus, egg, ham; beetroot, walnuts, feta. The simplicity of the concept makes it perfect for midweek cooking, and there’s something both rhythmic and inspiring about this approach to meal planning – the ‘three ingredients’ mantra gets under your skin. As Hugh himself admits, some of his ‘recipes’ stretch to deserve the name – toast, olive oil, honey? – but it all contributes to a creative pattern of thinking that will help you pause before reaching for that fourth ingredient and risk overcomplicating something that’s already perfect.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $59.95
J'aime Paris
A Taste of Paris in 200+ Culinary Destinations
Alain Ducasse
Hardie Grant, HB, 9781742701875
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In Nature, restaurateur and chef extraordinaire Alain Ducasse presents interesting and easy-to-prepare recipes that are accompanied by notes from dietician Paule Neyrat. Solidly aimed at the home cook, it is grounded in Ducasse’s love for quality seasonal produce, something he celebrates in J’aime Paris, a lavishly photographed homage to his favourite Parisian foodie haunts.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.95
Jerusalem
Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi
Ebury Press, HB, 9780091943745
$40.91 exGST $45.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
As its authors readily admit, Jerusalem is a place where culinary traditions overlap and interact in unpredictable ways, creating food mixes and culinary combinations that belong to specific groups but also belong to everyone else. Be it according to its culture, religion, politics or cuisine, this extraordinary city defies the absolute. Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi grew up here – Yotam in the Jewish west and Sami in the Muslim east – but both ate many of the same dishes at the family dinner table, and still consider them the best comfort food in existence. There’s an emphasis on vegetarian choices (including a fabulous basic hummus recipe), but there are plenty of meat and fish options, too – we certainly vouch for their roasted chicken with Jerusalem artichoke and lemon.
The Kitchen Diaries 2
Nigel Slater
Fourth Estate, HB, 9780007256037
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
He loves simple cooking, does Nigel, and emphatically states that he is a home cook, not a chef. A home cook, we feel obliged to note, who just happens to write wonderfully well about food, and whose recipes are blessedly easy and reliably tasty. This is the second volume of recipes and thoughts on food to be drawn from his kitchen diaries, and it’s full of gems such as ‘getting the most from a roast’, ‘eating bunny’, ‘sharing a pudding’, ‘rolling pastry’ and cooking ‘finger-licking chicken’. If you can’t find an achievable option for every meal here, you may as well give up!
Kylie Kwong
Lantern Cookery Classics
Kylie Kwong
Lantern, PB, 9781921383182
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
Latin for Gardeners
Over 3000 Plant Names Explained & Explored
Lorraine Harrison
Allen & Unwin, HB, 9781743312759
$31.82 exGST $35.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Most of us just shrug our shoulders when ‘the professional gardener’ starts waxing lyrical in Latin when referring to certain plant species. Latin for Gardeners demystifies this secret gardeners’ language, and clarifi es exactly why a knowledge of the Latin names for plants is as essential to your garden armoury as a bucket of good compost. Botanist Carl Linnaeus introduced this simplifi ed system for accuracy in identifying and naming plants in the 18th century. Today, plants may be known by a variety of names but the Latin name remains the same. The information each name holds can be the key to planning and maintaining a healthy and happy garden; for example, instantly identifying whether a plant suits arid or damp situations, prostrate or climbing positions.
The Lebanese Kitchen
Salma Hage
Phaidon, HB, 9780714864808
$54.50 exGST $59.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The proliferation of celebrity chefs – some, it must be said, whose reputations rely more on their personalities than their cooking skills – is a rapidly escalating phenomenon, so it’s refreshing to come across a book such as The Lebanese Kitchen. Written by a 50-year-old Lebanese housewife who lives in a mountain hamlet in Lebanon’s Kadisha Valley, it’s a comprehensive, unfussy guide to traditional Lebanese home cooking that brings this wonderful cuisine – generally acknowledged as the most impressive in the Middle East – to life for the home cook. As well as the expected chapters on mezze and salads, soups, fish, meat and vegetables, it also has alluring chapters on desserts, drinks and – best of all – pickles and jams.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $59.99
Limoncello and Linen Water
Tessa Kiros
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781742668789
$45.41 exGST $49.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Tessa Kiros’ latest book celebrates both her adopted homeland, Italy, and feminine domestic wisdom. It’s a beautifully packaged evocation of ‘old Italy’: laundry hanging picturesquely from wrought-iron balconies, old-fashioned roses, vintage silverware and charmingly shabby wooden tables. The recipes are proudly old-school, collected from a cohort of mammas and nonnas: Marta’s mum’s fennel, Barbara’s mum’s spinach polpettine, and a deliciously rustic, hearty and simple dish of onions stuffed with beef and tomato from Kiros’ own mother. Highlights include a collection of pantry items including giardiniera (pickled vegetables) and limoncello and celery marmalade; as well as classic cakes and biscuits, including a spectacular apple cake and Dolce di Marie, a coffee-infused Italian version of no-cook cake (à la Chocolate Ripple).
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $45.00
The Little Veggie Patch Co's Guide to Backyard Farming
Fabian Capomolla, Mat Pember
Plum, PB, 9781742611587
$36.32 exGST $39.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Gardening books come out of their daggy past and into their funky future with The Little Veggie Patch Co.’s follow up to last year’s bestselling The Little Veggie Patch Co.: How to Grow Food in Small Spaces (Plum. PB. $45). But the future as promoted by Capomolla and Pember is funky in an attitude-free, everyone’s-invited, you-cando- it-with-your-kids kind of way. Readers can start with dreaming and end by doing thanks to the inspiring photos and the nicely solid information. The guide tells you what to do every month – not just planting, but harvesting and cooking, too. There are even projects to build. It’s about living sustainably, but there’s never any preaching, and the emphasis is on enjoyment.
Maggie Beer
Lantern Cookery Classics
Maggie Beer
Lantern, PB, 9781921383144
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
Mat Moran
Lantern Cookery Classics
Mat Moran
Lantern, PB, 9781921383168
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $34.95
Mrs Beeton's Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book
Isabella Beeton
Five Mile Press, HB, 9781742485812
$13.59 exGST $14.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This charming curio is a facsimile of the original edition, fi rst published in 1893 to provide good Victorian ‘mistresses and servants’ with everything they needed to keep house. It’s an intriguing social document of how people lived when meat was hung, brewers and milkmen had to be paid from the household accounts and decorating the table was one of the ‘most pleasant of a young housewife’s duties’.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $39.95
My Italian Heart
Guy Grossi
Lantern, PB, 9781921382673
$18.14 exGST $19.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In My Italian Heart, the genial chef who co-hosted SBS’s Italian Food Safari and who operates Melbourne’s iconic Grossi Florentino restaurant presents a collection of classic Italian dishes. Grossi takes the best and freshest ingredients and creates memorable meals – everything from simple antipasti, salads and pastas, to spectacular offerings of roast suckling pig, duck pie and doughnuts filled with pastry cream. The recipes draw from Italy’s diverse regional cuisines and are accompanied by plenty of colour photographs.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $39.95
My Taste of Sicily
Dominique Rizzo
Lantern, PB, 9781921382499
$18.14 exGST $19.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In her first cookbook, the Brisbane-based chef and TV personality (Ready, Steady, Cook) delves into her family’s repertoire of Sicilian recipes to deliver a collection that captures the essence of what she calls ‘soul-food cooking’. Using fresh, seasonal produce, Dominique demonstrates how to cook dishes such as baked risotto with mushrooms, marsala and cream; swordfish stuffed with pine nuts, raisins and pecorino; and lemon meringues with limoncello crema. These simple yet seductive offerings from Italy’s sun-kissed south are perfect choices for summer feasts.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.95
Nature
Simple, Healthy and Good
Alain Ducasse
Hardie Grant, HB, 9781742700502
$27.23 exGST $29.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In Nature, restaurateur and chef extraordinaire Alain Ducasse presents interesting and easy-to-prepare recipes that are accompanied by notes from dietician Paule Neyrat. Solidly aimed at the home cook, it is grounded in Ducasse’s love for quality seasonal produce, something he celebrates in J’aime Paris, a lavishly photographed homage to his favourite Parisian foodie haunts.
Origin
The Food of Ben Shewry
Ben Shewry
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781741969870
$86.36 exGST $95.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This deluxe piece of publishing presents food as art and recipes as biographical insights. The Melbourne-based chef tracks the formation of his food philosophy and his craft, from idyllic rural New Zealand childhood to the 105-hour weeks establishing Attica, the Ripponlea restaurant that’s feted as one of the world’s best. That philosophy – centred on sustainability, indigenous food heritage, connection with nature and the importance of passionate producers – sits beside photographs of stunning landscapes and gorgeously styled dishes (sometimes both at once). The recipes are many and detailed, but unless your kitchen equipment includes the likes of rotary evaporators, vacuum sealers and cold smokers, they’ll be primarily for purposes of wonderment.
SPECIAL PRICE Originally $49.99
Rosa's Farm
Country Cooking
Rosa Mitchell
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781741969276
$18.14 exGST $19.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
If you’ve cooked from Rosa Mitchell’s first book, My Cousin Rosa (Murdoch. PB. $39.99), you’ll know what to expect from this, her follow-up volume: simple, rustic Italian food with big flavours. The recipes here are inspired by her property in rural Victoria: what she and her husband Colin grow on the farm and forage from nearby countryside, and what’s produced locally (a good example is the Bullboar, the northern Italian beef and pork sausage introduced by early settlers to the region and now a local food hero). Rosa’s signature is understated simplicity, and this is apparent in the recipes: oxtail ragu, lamb with potatoes and peas, sour cherry and walnut cake, quinces baked with Marsala and honey.
A Sardinian Cookbook
Giovanni Pilu, Roberta Muir
Lantern, HB, 9781921382598
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
How do you transform a cucina rustica of bread, pasta, boiled mutton and dried fish innards into the stuff of a Sydney destination restaurant? In this – surely the first Sardinian cookbook Australia has produced – chef Giovanni Pilu demonstrates. It’s clearly a labour of love: Sardinian-born Pilu is intimate with, and passionate about, his subject matter. He takes us through the staples, including the famous crisp flatbread pane carasau and bottarga (dried mullet roe), which has been made in Sardinia for over 3000 years. Pilu evokes a real sense of this rugged island where mint grows wild like weeds, hare and boar are hunted, and chestnuts are foraged and served with rabbit; before you know it, you’ll be stuffing squid, boiling mutton or spitroasting some offal.
Stephanie Alexander
Lantern Cookery Classics
Stephanie Alexander
Lantern, PB, 9781921383137
$18.17 exGST $19.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Take six of Australia’s top celebrity chefs, pull together some of their best recipes, illustrate plentifully, neatly package as an attractively simple collection, and voilà! – you’ve provided the perfect Christmas gift solution for thousands of Australians. Like the Penguin Literary Classics series, the graphic bright orange covers grab attention from the get-go, and the compact size and softback design come as a blessing after the bulkiness of the weighty bibles to modern Australian cuisine we’ve become so used to. The series kicks off by pulling out some big names: Stephanie Alexander, Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, George Calombaris, Kylie Kwong and Gary Mehigan.
Sustainable Food
Michael Mobbs
Choice Books, PB, 9781920705541
$40.91 exGST $45.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
In 1996, sustainability expert Michael Mobbs took his inner-city Sydney home off the grid and subsequently wrote the best seller Sustainable House (Choice Books. PB. $45). In this follow-up, Mobbs takes his battle for sustainability to the gardens and streets in an effort to get communities working together with councils to focus on producing sustainable foods in roadside verges and community gardens. This how-to manual is partly based on Mobbs’ experience working with the community in his own suburb of Chippendale, which has trialled a range of sustainability options over the past four years. Practical and inspiring, Mobbs’ new book is a call to action for communities to join forces and take people power to the streets, to make our suburbs healthier, safer and better places to live – and who doesn’t want that?!
Sweet Studio
Darren Purchese
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781742663371
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Those with a few spare days up their sleeves may want to try cooking something from this book. The amazing creations each have up to 11 separate recipes hidden within (macaroons used as garnish – get the idea?). First Purchese whams you with 16 blockbuster desserts – and they are both gob- and lip-smacking – then he deconstructs them into individual components: the small, manageable recipes that combined, make something spectacular. Having the recipe for Sweet Studio’s salted caramel spread feels like holding a dangerous weapon – and all of a sudden these outrageous desserts seem within reach. Perched delectably between art and science, this is an essential handbook for the adventurous and committed dessert freak.
Theo and Co Take 2
The Search for the Perfect Pizza Continues
Theo Kalogeracos
UWAP, PB, 9781742583532
$31.77 exGST $34.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
How does pizza topped with kangaroo, crème fraîche and pomegranate sound? Or how about roast chicken, sweet potato, cinnamon and sultana pizza? Kalogeracos is a World Champion Pizza Maker; this book recounts the Las Vegas championship where he won the title, and his tour of the USA’s great pizzas – clam pizza from Lombardi’s in New York, Chicago’s deep dish, and a sourdough pizza from San Francisco. Kalogeracos pushes the pizza envelope; if you’re in a pizza rut, this book might pull you (or scare you) out of it. As well as out-there toppings, Kalogeracos provides various dough recipes to experiment with, as well as a ‘masterclass’ that has some great, simple tips for making better pizza.
What Katie Ate
Katie Quinn Davies
Lantern, HB, 9781921382741
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Those of you who aren’t already fans of Katie Quinn Davies’ ‘foodie photography’ blog whatkatieate.blogspot.com.au will be in for a pleasant surprise with this title. The Irish-born Sydney resident has built up an international reputation for her stunning food photography and styling, and also for her simple, everdelicious recipes. This is Comfort food with a capital C (for Chic) – everything looks as good as it tastes. We’ve tested a good percentage of the recipes the book contains, and the results have been universally pleasing – a rare phenomenon indeed. Whether you choose stay-at-home-on-the-weekend shepherd’s pie, slow-cooked lamb with fetta, perfectly cooked steak with extra-crispy roast potatoes or easy-peasy raspberry friands, What Katie Ate is bound to hit the spot when you want to hit the kitchen.
Your Aren't What You Eat
Fed Up With Gastroculture
Steven Poole
Scribe Publications, PB, 9781922070050
$18.14 exGST $19.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Cultural critic Steven Poole is fed up with gastroculture – and who’s to blame him? His acerbic polemic questions when and why the basic human imperative to eat mutated into such a multitude of anxieties about provenance, ethics, health, lifestyle and class status. Along the way, he comments on and takes broadsides at foodies (Poole prefers ‘foodists’), nutritional therapists (he would probably say ‘charlatans’), celebrity chefs (Heston Blumenthal certainly doesn’t comes through unscathed) and every chef who ever featured a lone raviolo on a restaurant menu. It’s hilarious, informative and ever-so-slightly uncomfortable for all of us who like to fancy that it’s the food – rather than fashion and a hefty dose of media manipulation – that drives our restaurant visits, cookbook collections and gourmet grocery forays.
Zenbu Zen
Jane Lawson
Murdoch Books, HB, 9781741968415
$63.63 exGST $69.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Jane Lawson fled to Kyoto to repair from stress-related fatigue and near-breakdown by immersing herself in Japanese cuisine. The resulting book (pre-planned – she clearly wasn’t up for total escape!) is equal parts cookbook, travelogue and self-help memoir. Lawson recounts every aspect of her new life in Kyoto: every meal eaten (including recipes); every strange, exotic, delicious-sounding item purchased; every step on the journey towards her more relaxed self. Her immersion necessitates making her own tofu and eating raw sea slug guts (more than once!), but she also provides crystal-clear recipes for accessible dishes such as seared scallops with butter and shoyu. Lawson admits that she only skims the surface of this complex cuisine, but for Japanophiles this beautiful book will both fuel and justify their obsession.
Highly Recommended
Annie's Garden to Table
Annie Smithers
Lantern, PB, 9781921382345
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Smithers is a great believer in using fresh organic produce with minimal food miles. Here, she shares the ups and downs of setting up her own kitchen garden, interspersed with simple, seasonal recipes.
Highly Recommended
The Art of the Restaurateur
Nicholas Lander
Phaidon, HB, 9780714864693
$40.91 exGST $45.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This guide to creating a successful restaurant covers subjects as diverse as fi nding the right location, getting the design right, choosing the best chef, deciding what food to serve, managing staff and dealing with difficult customers.
Highly Recommended
Australian Wine Companion 2013
James Halliday
Hardi Grant, PB, 9781742703060
$33.59 exGST $36.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The 2013 edition of the bestselling guide on wineries and wine in Australia includes detailed tasting notes and important details about wineries.
Highly Recommended
A Cook's Life
Stephanie Alexander
Lantern, HB, 9781921382789
$36.32 exGST $39.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
A very personal account of one woman’s uncompromising commitment to good food, and of how it shaped her life and changed the eating habits of a nation.
Highly Recommended
The Food of Spain
Claudia Roden
Michael Joseph, HB, 9780718157197
$45.41 exGST $49.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The author of classic cookbooks including A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Penguin UK. PB. $39.95) and The Book of Jewish Food (Penguin. PB. $45) has now written a passionate and evocative book about Spanish cuisine.
Highly Recommended
Jamie's 15-Minute Meals
Jamie Oliver
Michael Joseph, HB, 9780718157807
$45.45 exGST $49.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Jamie’s guide to cooking ‘super quick, tasty, nutritious food that you can eat every day of the week’.
Highly Recommended
Kitchen Gardens of Australia
Kate Herd
Lantern, PB, 9781921383427
$36.35 exGST $39.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Passionate designer and green-gardener Kate Herd profiles 18 diverse kitchen gardens, providing a detailed garden plan and a brief history for each.
Highly Recommended
Kylie Kwong's Simple Chinese Cooking Class
Kylie Kwong
Lantern, HB, 9781920989675
$54.50 exGST $59.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
This long-awaited follow-up to Kylie’s Simple Chinese Cooking (Lantern. HB. $59.95) includes new recipes and master classes in classic Chinese techniques.
Highly Recommended
Love and Hunger
Charlotte Wood
Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781742377766
$27.26 exGST $29.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
Australian novelist Charlotte Wood explores the solitary and shared pleasures of cooking and eating in an ode to good food prepared and presented with minimum fuss and maximum love.
Highly Recommended
Nigellissima
Nigella Lawson
Chatto & Windus, HB, 9780701187330
$36.32 exGST $39.95 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The queen of the gastronomic double entendre presents 120 easy-to-cook recipes in this culinary tour of Italy.
Highly Recommended
Simon Bryant's Vegies
Simon Bryant
Lantern, PB, 9781921382703
$36.35 exGST $39.99 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The debut cookbook from the chef who starred alongside ‘cook’ Maggie Beer in the ABC show is an inspiring collection of vegie recipes that will appeal to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.
Highly Recommended
Sunday's Garden
Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
Miegunyah Press, PB, 9780522858761
$40.91 exGST $45.00 incGST ADD TO TROLLEY
The Heide curators turn their attention from Sunday’s kitchen to her garden, focusing on its exotic and native flora, and its huge cottage-style kitchen garden.