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
Red Sauce Brown Sauce - A British Breakfast Odyssey by Felicity Cloake
$38.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
The charming and joyful follow-up book from 'the nation's taster in chief,' Felicity Cloake. If there's one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it's an obsession with breakfast. We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus ketchup on our ...Show more
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver
$30.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, p ...Show more
A Sense of Place: A journey around Scotland's whisky by Dave Broom
$90.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A personal journey exploring Scotch whisky through its terroir, including the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feeds and enhances the whisky itselfIn this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir - the land, ...Show more
Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure by Robert Penn
$26.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' Telegraph'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' SpectatorOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this ...Show more
Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen - New York Times Bestseller by Erin French
$28.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen is Erin French's rollercoaster memoir about her struggle to follow her dream and bring joy to people through food.
We Are What We Eat - A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters
$35.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. When she first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Waters found that the phenomenon of fast food culture, which prioritized chea ...Show more
Appetite - A Memoir in Recipes and Family and Food by Ed Balls
$27.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Charming' - The Sunday Times 'Delicious' - Daily Mail 'Wonderful' - Stephen Fry 'Delightful' - Delia Smith 'Brilliant' - Claudia Winkleman 'Joyous' - Caitlin Moran 'Entertaining' - Observer 'Funny' - Ken Follett 'Glorious' - Daily Express 'Touching' - Robert Pes ...Show more
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
$28.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR 'A tasty portrait of a nation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A s ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$26.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations by Jessie Ware
$35.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
"Are you hungry darling, shall I make you an omelette?" My mother's omelettes are slightly overdone but always generous in cheese and well-seasoned. My omelettes are just the same, though more often slightly underdone and less carefully considered. And like my stories, they come in many forms. You mi ...Show more
Chewing the Fat - Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life by Jay Rayner
$17.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley TucciWhy are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired?Does bacon improve eve ...Show more