The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Ella Kate; Risbridger Young
$55.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing | Series: Head of Zeus Anthologies Ser.
A deliciously moreish collection of the 100 finest pieces of writing on food, glorious food. In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find authors, cooks and poets from Laurie Colwin, Salman ...Show more
Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop
$65.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes Chinese was the first truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious disti ...Show more
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
$30.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of ...Show more
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
$28.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'The most beautifully written description of what cooking is all about, and what it actually is, with recipes' Nigella Lawson Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning resp ...Show more
National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
In National Dish, acclaimed food writer Anya von Bremzen sets out to investigate the eternal cliche that "we are what we eat". Travelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, th ...Show more
Delizia: The Epic History of Italians and Their Food by John Dickie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'If only we could all write as brilliantly on Italy and its food as John Dickie does. He may well know Italy and Italians better than they know themselves' Stanley Tucci The new edition of the much-loved classic, with a fresh chapter that brings the surprising and moreish tale of the Italian way of eat ...Show more
The Olive Oil Enthusiast: A Guide from Tree to Table, with Recipes by Skyler Mapes, Giuseppe Morisani
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A comprehensive, practical introduction to the often misunderstood world of olive oil-with recipes for appetizers, pasta, sauces, and desserts-from the founders and producers of the acclaimed EXAU Olive Oil brand. Humans have produced and enjoyed olive oil for thousands of years, but education about ol ...Show more
There's Always Room for Cheese: A Guide to Cheesemaking at Home by Colin Wood
$60.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Learn how to make cheese at home from scratch and create your own delicious sweet and savoury cheese-based recipes with There’s Always Room for Cheese. There’s Always Room for Cheese is the debut cheese cookbook by chef Colin Wood. Colin has worked in some of the world’s best restaurants as the self-pr ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
$13.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Heartbake: A bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree
$45.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'The discovery of cooking for others again ignited something in me-it gave me meaning, and in some ways it brought me back to life.' In this heartfelt memoir of food, love and self-discovery, Charlotte Ree takes us along her journey of learning to cook in the wake of a divorce that left her feeling uns ...Show more
Chefwise, Life Lessons from the World's Leading Chefs by Shari Bayer
$38.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
The world's leading chefs offer inspiration, advice, and life lessons from both in and out of the kitchen To become a great chef or to run a top restaurant, you need to learn from those who have already been there and done it: the chefs. In this unique book, author Shari Bayer has collected the wisdom ...Show more
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly ...Show more