Fire Islands | Eleanor Ford | $49.99 | Murdoch | Emma C’s Pick
A vibrant, easy to navigate vegetarian cookbook on the delicacies of the Middle East. As somebody who gets overwhelmed very quickly by an abundance of spices in an ingredients list, Ghayour manages to navigate the complexities of flavour for scared cooks with expertise. My favourite recipes include potato, ricotta and herb dumplings with walnuts and chilli butter feta, and roast vegetable bastille. Yum-o!
Eleanor Ford’s collection of vibrant, exotic, colourful dishes will have you believing you’ve travelled to the finest restaurants in Indonesia with its stunning photography! Seriously though, everything looks delicious — and the recipes are surprisingly achievable. There’s a genuine spiritandintimacytoFord’swritingaboutthe archipelago. Her descriptions and recipes allow you to re-create the magic that is Indonesian cuisine. Perfect for fans of books such as Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, or Sabrina Ghayour’s Sirocco.
Greenfeast: Spring, Summer | Nigel Slater | $45 | HarperCollins | Sylvia’s Pick Slater, known for his columns in UK’s The Guardian as well as from his books and TV programs, delivers another beautiful, warmly written offering to his many readers and fans. This cloth-bound beauty focuses on delicious, fresh and fast vegetablebased recipes, and is the first of a duo of books to do so – the other will be Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter and will be released later in the year. I can’t wait!
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Bazaar | Sabrina Ghayour | $39.99 | Hachette | Olivia’s Pick
The Recipe | Josh Emett | $39.99 | Hardie Grant | Sylvia’s Pick This new collection of classic recipes from NZ chef and Masterchef star Josh Emmett is likely to become a true household bible. With over 300 recipes from some of the best chefs around the world, all trialled and tested by Emmett with the home cook in mind, and with stunning photographs, this volume will delight and inspire all who love food and cooking. Wonderful!
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Super Roots | Tanita de Ruijt | $24.99 | Hardie Grant | Lucy H’s Pick Inspired by de Ruijt’s travel through South East Asia, Super Roots focuses on the therapeutic and functional aspects of food inspired by Asian traditions. Using everyday ingredients and a range of herbs, spices and roots, de Ruijt shows you how to create food that really nourishes, as well as delivers on bold and exciting flavours. Essential reading for cooks interested in refreshing their palette.
Breakfast | Emily Elyse Miller | $65 | Phaidon | Lucy’s Pick As the most important meal of the day you would expect breakfast to get a lot more credit. After all, breakfast foods are some of the best meals out there (seriously, you can’t beat a good bacon and eggs combo), but brekkie fanatics need worry no more with this incredible cookbook. Featuring breakfasts from all over the world, Miller has compiled a fantastic and diverse cookbook for anyone looking to spice up the most important meal of the day.
Warndu Mai | Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan | $45 | Hachette | Lillian’s Pick
Good Food Favourite Recipes | Edited by Ardyn Bernoth | $39.99 | Simon & Schuster | Sylvia’s Pick
This gorgeous Indigenous cookbook contains over 80 illustrated recipes showcasing Australian native foods with useful information about local seasonal availability and sustainable cooking practices. Celebrate the infinite diversity of our oftenoverlooked native cuisine from wattleseed brownies, emu egg sponge cake, and bunya nut pesto to native berry, strawberry gum pavlova, and kangaroo carpaccio.
Good Food, The Sydney Morning Herald’s much-loved food column, has featured many exciting chefs over the years, and continues to do so every week. Here editor Bernoth brings together the best of the best: tasty recipes from the likes of Jill Dupleix, Kylie Kwong and Neil Perry (and many more). Mouth-watering photography accompanies every morsel, making this the ideal book for all who love cooking at home. Delicious!
Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan author talk May 8
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