A Venetian Journal

$39.95

A Venetian Journal encourages food lovers who travel and those who explore the world via recipes to map their own journey, recording favourite recipes and memorable cooking and eating experiences. Structured around the classic Italian meal: Antipasti, Primi, Secondi, Contorni and Dolci, A Venetian Journal features photographer Manos  Chatzikonstantis’ personal selection of photographs from his frequent visits to Venice with Tessa Kiros and fragments from Kiros’s own journals as she sought to imbibe the very essence of the world’s most romantic city.

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AWW Eating Together

$39.95

This book will seduce people back to the family table with these hugely popular recipes. There are all-day breakfasts, Sunday lunches, Friday night DVD food, recipes to teach kids to cook, food for camping trips and celebration food. There are also after-school snacks, fast midweek meals, barbecues and food that Grandma used to cook. Australian Women’s Weekly Eating Together is a celebration of food to share with family and friends.

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AWW High Tea
Australian Women’s Weekly
$32.95

The first title in a new gorgeous gift series from the Australian Women’s Weekly editors, AWW High Tea contains all the delectable delights of the tea table – scones, finer sandwiches, pastries, little cakes, big cakes, slices, and biscuits. Imagine linen tablecloths, fine china, leaf tea from a teapot, cucumber sandwiches, chocolate éclairs and raspberry cream sponge. Delicious and indulgent, AWW High Tea is as delightful look at as it is to cook from.

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Coco:10 World Leading Masters Choose 100 Contempory Chefs

$75.00

Coco is an exciting, unprecedented guide to the most exceptional talent in the international restaurant world. Coco presents one hundred of the best emerging chefs from around the world selected by ten superstar chefs, including Mario Batali (USA), Shannon Bennett (Australia), Alain Ducasse (France) and Gordon Ramsay (UK). The selected one hundred chefs are creating the most innovative cuisine today. From Singapore to New York, Stockholm to Surrey, Hong Kong to Paris, these chefs are pushing their craft to new heights and are beginning to receive international attention for their cooking.

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Comfort Food
Gary Mehigan
$49.95

Gary Mehigan, acclaimed chef and television personality, brings us the food he loves to eat - classic dishes with a modern twist. Discover the secrets of family favourites such as pancakes, pumpkin soup and spaghetti with meatballs, and learn how to transform a pork chop or beef stew with the addition of roast quince or onion marmalade.

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Eating In
Philip Johnson
$59.95

Eating In is a collection of the very best recipes from award-winning chef Philip Johnson. Whether you’re hosting a big night in, a long Sunday lunch, or a casual weeknight dinner, Eating In offers menu suggestions, party planning advice, and more than 120 recipes to make any occasion memorable. The book is divided into entrees, mains and desserts and you can pick combinations to build your own dinner party. The recipes reflect his signature style and celebrate the dishes that have been constant favourites at his popular Brisbane bistro, e’cco.

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Essentially Thai
Brierty Helen & Fear Annette
$45.00

From the internationally renowned restaurant in Yandina – Spirit House – comes a new delectable cookbook, Essentially Thai. It explains everything you need to know about preparing Thai dishes at home. Learn how to make the essential pastes, spices, sauces, and which dry and fresh ingredients, and utensils, you cannot do without. There are recipes for fresh Thai salads, amazing stir-fries, divine noodles, and delicious curries. Essentially Thai will provide you with the know-how to become a master at Thai cooking.

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Food Fashion Friends
Fleur Wood
$59.95

Love to frock up, deck out and cook up a storm? In Food Fashion Friends fashion designer and passionate home cook Fleur Wood shows you how to create the kind of event that delights the eye, ignites the imagination, and tantalises the tastebuds. Here she provides not only recipes to cook, but inspiration for putting a menu together. From the straightforward ‘throw it quickly together’, to the more intricate and sophisticated ‘happy to slave all day’, Food Fashion Friends contains suggestions for a broad range of meals and events.

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Gran's Kitchen
Natalie Oldfield
$45.00

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I Know How To Cook

$69.95

First published in France in 1932, Je Sais Cuisiner has been a bestseller for three generations and it is now available for the first time in English. With more than 1,200 recipes for every occasion, I Know How to Cook is an authoritative compendium of every classic French dish, from croque monsieur to cassoulet. The recipes have been carefully updated to suit modern readers and their kitchens, while still preserving the integrity of the original book and the authenticity of the recipes.

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It Tastes Better
Kylie Kwong
$69.95

In It Tastes Better, Kylie Kwong has created over 100 recipes inspired by fresh, seasonal and sustainably produced food. Embarking on a journey around Australia, she meets the people behind the sustainable produce she is so passionate about. The care they take in producing the food literally makes it taste better. Sharing her simple, vibrant recipes, Kylie shows that you don’t need exotic ingredients to create magical dishes – just fresh, flavoursome food produced in the most beneficial way for us and the planet.

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James Halliday Wine Companion 2011
James Halliday
$34.95

An indispensable reference for all enthusiasts of Australian wine, the Australian Wine Companion is a must-have for anyone planning to visit a wine-growing region or to replenish their cellar or wine rack. It is the most authoritative and entertaining guide to Australian wine.

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Kitchen Garden Companion
Stephanie Alexander
$99.95

Lucy Cousins tells her favourite nursery stories in spare bold language and brilliant vibrant pictures. She gives their famous characters new life and imbues their great adventures with her own very modern magic. These stories are treasures of the imagination. They were first told long ago and they will be told again and again, far into the future. From Lucy Cousins, creator of Maisy, this collection of eight classic nursery stories pulls no punches. It’s lively, bold and quite unforgettable!

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Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain
$35.00

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential – for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business, and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw, the long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, explores these changes. Bourdain compares what he has seen with what he’s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Bourdain, in his distinctive, no holds barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.

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More Cakes for Kids
Australian Women’s Weekly
$29.95

The best day of the year for any child is their birthday, and nothing is so eagerly anticipated as their birthday cake. More Cakes for Kids contains 70 new cake recipes from the experts in children’s cakes. Full of spectacular yet simple cakes that use luscious gelato colours, they are sure to delight your child on their most important day. There are gorgeous girly cakes, daring cakes for boys, cupcakes, celebration cakes, and cakes for the whole family, as well as new takes on animal cakes and traditional favourites.

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My Family Feast
Sean Connolly
$59.95

My Family Feast is a loving celebration of food, family and the stories of life. Each chapter invites you inside a family home for a meal that is being prepared to celebrate a special occasion. These families come from all around the globe – Cuba, China, Italy, Afghanistan and many other places. Discover the part that each recipe plays in celebrating and maintaining their rich cultural traditions, and enjoy fabulous feasts with ingredients that have been lovingly passed down from generation to generation, through grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles.

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Our Family Table
Julie Goodwin
$49.95

Since taking out the coveted title of Australia's first MasterChef, Julie Goodwin has been cooking, testing and writing away like mad, preparing to publish her first cookbook. Julie says: 'In this book I'm not just presenting recipes but exploring the role of food in families and communities. I want to get people back into their kitchens and promote the joy of food and family. OUR FAMILY TABLE is full of lovely stories and recipes and feasts, with a strong focus on good old-fashioned tucker. 'Some recipes are heirlooms passed down in Julies family through generations, while others were given to her by friends and neighbours. There are lazy weekend breakfasts to enjoy with the family, weekday and special occasion dinners, barbecue and camp cooking, and cakes, biscuits and puddings galore. Julie also includes recipes she created on MasterChef - such as her now famous lemon diva cupcakes and her passionfruit puddle pie.The final section of the book is Julie's favourite: a beautifully designed 'blank' chapter with pages for the readers own photos, clippings and hand-me-down handwritten recipes from family and friends.With a foreword by Australian culinary icon, Margaret Fulton.

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Queensland Food & Wine 2010 Guide
Lizzie Loel & Fiona Donnelly
$19.95

The Courier-Mail Queensland Food and Wine 2010 Guide is the latest update of this annual guide. Appealing to natives & tourists equally it covers the best restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs and providores. Covering all angles; from the menu to ambience, service and the wine list.

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Recipes from an Italian Summer
Phaidon Editors
$59.95

Many of the best-loved Italian dishes are pure summer, such as bruschetta, salads of ripe tomatoes and basil, beef carpaccio sprinkled with capers and char grilled artichokes with lemon. The simplicity and pure flavours of Italian cooking make the best use of the wonderful array of produce that is available in summer. Italian food is perfect for picnics and barbecues, as well as light lunches and summer entertaining in the garden, Recipes from an Italian Summer includes hundreds of recipes published in English for the first time. They are utterly authentic, yet simply to prepare in any kitchen, and enable beginner cooks to create delicious seasonal dishes. A comprehensive and lively book with specially commissioned photographs and illustrations, the simply and user-friendly format of Recipes from an Italian Summer makes it both accessible and pleasure to read.

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So French: A Lifetime in the Provincial Kitchen
Dany Chouet
$69.95

Acclaimed restaurateur Dany Chouet helped shaped French cuisine in Australia throughout the 70s and 80s through her successful restaurants Upstairs, Au Chabrol and Cleopatra. Now back in south-west France, she and her partner are wooing international customers with gourmet tours and Dany’s quintessential country cooking. So French weaves Dany’s fascinating life story with more than 60 timeless recipes and accompanied by stunning photographs taken at her home and guesthouse in the south of France. This is truly a book to treasure.

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Taste le Tour
Gabriel Gate
$35.00

Taste le Tour takes you on a gastronomic tour of regional France that follows the Tour de France race route. Compiled by Gabriel Gate, with the help of talented French chef Philippe Mouchel, this book is a must have for lovers of French cuisine. It introduces classic recipes and famous specialities from each region in a way that makes French cooking both simple and delicious. Beautifully illustrated by Antonia Pesanti, Taste le Tour is a wonderful gift, keepsake, and book to cook from.

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The Real Food Companion
Matthew Evans
$89.95

In The Real Food Companion, renowned food writer Matthew Evans shows us how to ethically source, cook and eat real food. Bursting with information to inspire and a huge range of recipes to nurture the soul and family, The Real Food Companion outlines everything you need to know to navigate today’s complex food world. Written with gusto and filled with stunning location photography this book will appeal to dedicated foodies, as well as novice cooks looking for a reliable and up-to-date kitchen companion.

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We Love Food
Kristy Manning Wilcox & Peta Haines
$39.95

We Love Food is a family cookbook interspersed with beautiful photography and detailed descriptions on how to grow your own vegetables and herbs. More and more people are growing their own veggies, and whether you have acres of land or a tiny balcony in the city We Love Food will show you how to do it. Mothers Peta and Kirsty provide useful tips on creating a veggie patch with your children, as well as recipes that use this produce in simple, healthy meals.

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