Cooking/Food/Wine

A mouth-watering combination of recipes and autobiographical sketches from the much-loved and bestselling author, poet and cook.

In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to amuse Picasso at lunch; and, travelling across France during the First World War in an old delivery truck, gathering local recipes along the way. She includes a friend's playfu... read more

All over the world people are searching for better ways of growing food and sustaining life. On the South Pacific Island of Aitutaki, Sonja and Tauono relied on their organic plantation and vegetable garden to supply fresh fruits and vegetables for Tauono's Organic Garden Cafe, putting ecologically sustainable theories into practice. Delicious, mouthwatering, luscious, delectable... are there enough superlatives to describe the food from Sonja's Kitchen? These remarkably simple dishes are replete with healthy vitality and... read more

75 recipes, 5 step-by-step cooking guide Revive's delicious vegetarian food contains whole grains, plant-based protein, fresh produce and virtually no processed sugars or flours. The majority of the dishes are also dairy and gluten free. 6 mouth-watering sections: Salads Hotpots & Stir Fries Main Meals Soups Flavour Boosters Sweet Things Equipped with these great recipes and a little planning, you will discover that preparing healthy food is easier than you thought! This cookbook contains: 75 de... read more

Good home-baked products are the most delicious, but finding trusted recipes or stimulating ideas is not always easy. Julie Le Clerc knows many home-cooks and professional bakers who are constantly searching for reliable, inexpensive yet innovative recipes. That's why she's keen to share her favourites with you: easy-to-follow recipes that result in a variety of cakes, all with seriously good flavours. The cakes in this book are Julie's tried and true favourites - the ones she comes back to time and time again. Many she's been maki... read more

The Feijoa Recipe Book is the world's first full colour professional cookbook, dedicated to feijoas. There are 41 feijoa recipes including 9 new savoury dishes, 9 muffin and cake recipes, 19 delicious feijoa desserts and 4 sweet treats

Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture Category Winner Montana Book Awards 2009; Nielsen Award for Best Book 2009; Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2009. There is a good chance you can remember a time when the family cake tins were always full of biscuits, slices, fruit loaves and cakes baked by mothers, aunts and grandmothers. And, of course, home-made sponges, ginger loaves, lamingtons, custard squares were an integral part of all special occasions - whether it was a birthday, a christening, ... read more

'What's for Pudding?' is a question that has been asked around New Zealand dining tables for generations. A family will eat the main course and be satisfied, but the main event, the thing waited for with the greatest anticipation by all is, of course, pudding. In What's for Pudding Alexa Johnston brings together the sweet delights that have graced New Zealand tables for generations. Hot and cold puddings, as well as all kinds of baking, became a significant outlet for the creative genius of countless New Zealand women. The excellen... read more

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Twins Isabella and Sofia Bliss appeared on Junior MasterChef (Sophia got through to the top four and Isabella won). A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That is a family cookbook of Sicilian recipes cooked by the twins, inspired by their mother, Sylvana, and their nonna, Rosa. It features an introduction by Sylvana and both the girls, as well as a short description for each recipe that gives us a feel for the family, their migrant background and their food traditions. The recipes include spuntino (snacks), basics such as Tomato Sa... read more

If you loved Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook, you'll adore this new book. Annabel invites you into her city home and shows how her free range cooking style can help you create a sustainable lifestyle in the city.
With over 150 delicious recipes and menus for every occasion, Annabel Langbein Free Range in the City is more than just another cookbook - it's a recipe for a good life.

Natalie's first cookbook Gran's Kitchen: Recipes from the Notebooks of Dulcie May Booker was published in March 2009 and was an instant bestseller. The concept was and is a great one and well-timed in the market: a collection of recipes from the notebooks of 95-year-old Dulcie May Booker selected by her granddaughter Natalie Oldfield. Gran's Family Table is the second book in the series and carries on the theme - mouth-watering tried and true recipes for cooking at home. Beautifully designed in a retro-modern look by the desi... read more

Gives an account of the author's battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. With chapters on cupcakes, cheesecakes, meringues and macaroons, chocolate cakes, fruit cakes and favourite classics, this title presents recipes for beginner bakers, offering hints and tips to help along the way.

The Edmonds Cookery Book has been loved and trusted by New Zealand families for almost 100 years. Everyone has an Edmonds recipe to which special memories are attached; we undertook a national quest to collect these special recipes. All your favourite recipes are included in Classic Edmonds, along with Edmonds famous 'handy hints'. Snippets of Edmonds history and recipe trivia are also presented. Not only a great piece of Kiwi kitchen nostalgia, but an invaluable collection of loved and reliable recipes. Classic Edmonds pays tribut... read more

A New Zealand institution. The standard cookbook.Edmond's 90-year history began with the very first Edmonds Cookery Book published in 1907 featuring a collection of 'economical and everyday' recipes. Its phenominal success continues and it is still the essential item in nearly every New Zealand kitchen with many of the original recipes now firmly part of our cooking tradition. The essential cook book for every kitchen, the Edmonds Cookery Book enables the user to cook with confidence and pride. In this revised edition, recipes have... read more

The cuisines of the South Pacific island nations are noted for their sensational use of coconut cream, fresh fruit and the most delicate fish. Away from the big resort hotels, skilled local cooks make the most delicious meals, whose range would surprise most tourists. Two years ago, New Zealand-born chef Robert Oliver, who has had a stellar career in the United States restaurant industry, went back to Fiji, where he grew up, to rediscover the art of Pacific cooking. He travelled to Tonga, Niue, Tahiti, Samoa, Vanuatu and the Cook... read more

In this lively and exceptionally enjoyable book, Niki Segnit takes 160 popular ingredients and explores all the ways they might be combined in the kitchen. She has scoured thousands of recipes in countless recipe books, talked to dozens of food technologists and chefs, and visited hundreds of restaurants - all in her quest for flavour pairings. The result is a unique book that is full of quirky observations, practical information (hundreds of recipes are embedded in the narrative) and good jokes. Here are a couple of randomly chose... read more

From New Zealand's foremost wine writer comes the definitive guide to the best New Zealand wines. Filled with practical information on everything you need to know to buy the perfect bottle, this easy-to-use reference book appeals to all wine drinkers, whether wine experts or those simply looking for a good wine to have with dinner. 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines allows the reader to cut through the bewildering array of wines to find those that achieve outstanding quality, year after year. Some of these may be 5-star, gold medal, to... read more

Generations of New Zealanders responded to pioneering broadcaster Aunt Daisy's nine o'clock radio catchcry, 'Good morning, everybody'. While her nationwide broadcasts ended more than 40 years ago, her legacy lives on and now you can enjoy over 100 of Aunt Daisy's tried-and-true baking recipes in The Aunt Daisy Baking Book. Nostalgic, reliable and delicious, these recipes are now presented with metric measurements and in a modern, easy-to-follow format for today's cooks. Includes 32 colour photographs. All royalties from the book go... read more

The author is the nation's favourite Chinese chef. This title offers a collection of his best 100 stir-fry recipes. From chicken recipes to vegetarian, healthy to recipes for entertaining friends, curries to salads, and appetizers, snacks and side dishes, it offers a range of taste, ingredients and style - all made in the wok.