A Really Big Lunch by Jim Harrison
$39.99 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
" A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the worl ...Show more
The Kitchen Magpie: A Delicious Melange of Culinary Curiosities, Fascinating Facts, Amazing Anecdotes and Expert Tips for the Food-Lover by James Steen
$36.99 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
The Kitchen Magpie contains fascinating tips and expert know-how. How do you make the perfect pork crackling, the finest fried egg, or roast beef in an oven that's not even switched on? How do you tell a ripe melon? Why is the belly of salmon better than the tail? The answers are here, the science expla ...Show more
The Exotic Booze Club: The Misadventures of a Travelling Film Maker by Brian Armstrong
$35.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
At seven years old, the young Brian Armstrong was captivated by the pages of an old, yellow-bordered magazine . It wasn't just the bare-breasted tribeswomen that attracted his attention. Pictures of far-off jungles, exotic wildlife and intrepid explorers prompted the boy to declare 'That's what I'm goin ...Show more
Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher
$23.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Fisher's memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,' and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher
$23.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared #65533; la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found the ...Show more
In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France by Susan Herrmann Loomis
$32.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A delightful celebration of everyday life in France through the lens of the kitchens and cooking of the author s neighbors, who, while busy and accomplished, still manage to make every meal a sumptuous occasion. Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, "On Rue Tatin," American re ...Show more
A Work in Progress: A Journal by René Redzepi
$49.99 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
A Work in Progress: A Journal is a highly personal document of the creative processes at noma and the challenges faced by its chefs over a twelve-month period in an unspecified year of the restaurant's history. After a month of vacation, Redzepi made a resolution to keep a journal and to dedicate a yea ...Show more
How to eat a peach: Menus, stories and places by Diana Henry
$45.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing | Series: Diana Henry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'This is an extraordinary piece of food writing, pitch perfect in every way. I couldn't love anyone who didn't love this book.' - Nigella Lawson '...her best yet...superb menus evoking place and occasion with consummate elegance' - Financial Times When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook ...Show more
Food Wise - A Whole Systems Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Food Choices by Gigi Berardi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
We live in a culture awash with advice on nutrition and eating. Who do we believe? And what does it really mean to eat healthy? Food Wise is for anyone who has felt unsure about how to make the "right" food choices. It is for food lovers who want to be more knowledgeable and connected to their food, whi ...Show more
A Spot at the Bar: Welcome to the Everleigh by Michael Madrusan; Zara Young
$50.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
What'll it be? Something light and refreshing, or big and boozy? Join the internationally acclaimed team from The Everleigh for an evening of good drinking, festive hosting and classic style. From an aperitif at sundown, a nightcap in the early hours, right through to a hair of the dog the morning after ...Show more
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for eating in a world of change by Bee Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the betterFood is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion?Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shif ...Show more
Girl on the Block by Jessica Wragg
$55.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink Writing
Gabrielle Hamilton meets April Bloomfield in a lyrically written memoir about life as a female butcher. When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at the local farm shop in her hometown of Chesterfield, England, she never expected to land a position behind the all-male butchery counter. Young and ...Show more