Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen by Erin French
$33.00 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. Erin French grew up barefoot on a 25-acre farm in Maine, fell in love with food as a teenager working the line at her dad's diner and found her calling ...Show more
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly by Kate Lebo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'A beautiful, fascinating read full of surprises – a real pleasure.' Claudia Roden '[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.' Vulture Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expert ...Show more
Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
$38.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence, in harmony with the environment and the self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleaned from a life dedicated t ...Show more
What's Good? - A Memoir in Twelve Ingredients by Peter Hoffman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a difference on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, in ...Show more
Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, ...Show more
Cooking Alone by Kathleen Le Riche
$23.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat) The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets) The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets) The Schoolboy Moocher (who makes toffee and wallows in grapes) The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food) The Lonely Mother, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (who becom ...Show more
Women in the Kitchen - Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today by Anne Willan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Culinary historian Anne Willan "has melded her passions for culinary history, writing, and teaching into her fascinating new book" (Chicago Tribune) that traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve influential women--from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Chil ...Show more
Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure by Robert Penn
$48.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Over 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 pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread- from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent ...Show more
Sitopia - How Food Can Save the World by Carolyn Steel
$24.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector 'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destined to become a modern classic' Bee Wilson How we search for, make and consume food has defined human history. It transforms our bodies and homes, our poli ...Show more
The Lost Orchard - A French Chef Rediscovers a Great British Food Heritage by Raymond Blanc
$30.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
'Blanc set about the most thorough apple-tasting and cooking project I have heard of . . . The Lost Orchard] condenses the highlights, his love letters to the forgotten apple breeds.' The Times 'I began to dream about an orchard filled with thousands of fruit trees... Today we have an orchard with o ...Show more
People Who Love to Eat Are Always the Best People - And Other Wisdom by Julia Child
$40.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A charming, giftable collection of the beloved, best-selling author's inimitable quotes--her words of wisdom on love, life, and, of course, food. "If you're afraid of butter, use cream." So decrees Julia Child, the legendary culinary authority and cookbook author who taught America how to cook--and how ...Show more
Guinness Down Under by Smith Rod
$50.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Guinness is a name instantly recognised the world over -- the famous stout has been brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin for over 250 years, and is now brewed under contract in fifty countries and 9 million glasses of Guinness are drunk each day worldwide. Guinness family members, originally in three maj ...Show more