Fabulous Foodies 2012

New Zealand

Peter Gordon: EverydayPeter GordonIn Peter Gordon: Everyday Peter brings fusion to the kitchens of Kiwis, making his signature cooking style straightforward and accessible. He shows us how to create fusion-style meals at home, every night of the week.

Using easily sourced ingredients and simple methods, Peter has created more than 170 dishes that demonstrate his passion for innovative flavours and textures in an everyday setting. The sections, including breakfast and brunch, light meals and salads, pasta, rice and noodles, tea trolley and desserts, are complemented by sumptuous photography from Manja Wachsmuth, making Peter Gordon: Everyday the stylish answer to eating well, every day.

Peter has award-winning restaurants in both Auckland and London. Bellota Tapas Bar and dine by Peter Gordon are both located at the Skycity Grand Hotel. The Providores and Tapa Room in Marylebone, London, is now in its eleventh year. Kopapa opened in December 2010 in Covent Garden, London, to much critical acclaim. Peter’s reputation as the godfather of fusion cuisine is world renowned and when not in the kitchen in Auckland or London his time is spent travelling the world. 2012 so far has seen Peter cooking at festivals and giving demonstrations and master classes in Fiji, Singapore, Dubai and Hungary, amongst others.

Peter Gordon is undoubtedly one of New Zealand’s most successful chefs. He is renowned for his unique culinary philosophy, influenced by his extensive travels around the world.

HarperCollins NZ | October | $49.99

New Zealand

Monteith’s Wild Kitchens: The Best of Monteith’s Beer and Wild Food Challenge Kerry R. Tyack

The Monteith’s Beer and Wild Food Challenge has become a stalwart of the New Zealand food scene and 2012 marks its 15-year anniversary. This prestigious national challenge sets restaurants, bars and cafés competing against one another to create New Zealand’s ultimate wild food dish.

Monteith’s Wild Kitchens contains the best recipes from the past 15 years of the challenge, along with innovative new recipes from well-known New Zealand chefs.

All the recipes have been adapted for the home cook by writer and beer aficionado Kerry Tyack, making them easy to create in your own kitchen, along with a few more challenging recipes for the experienced home cook. The book also includes an easy-to-use beer and food matching guide, emphasising one of the simple principles of the challenge: if you choose the right beer to accompany the right food, your enjoyment of both will be enhanced.

HarperCollins NZ | November | $44.99

Riverstone Kitchen: SimpleBevan Smith

Riverstone Kitchen: Simple is the second stunning cookbook from Bevan Smith, head chef and owner of Riverstone Kitchen. Since opening Riverstone Kitchen in 2006 the restaurant has gone on to win the Supreme Winner in Cuisine magazine’s New Zealand Restaurant of the Year 2010, and joint winner in their class in 2011.

Riverstone Kitchen has a reputation for simple, elegant and, most importantly, tasty food, cooked with seasonal ingredients. This simplicity is the concept behind their new cookbook, Riverstone Kitchen: Simple. Mouth-watering recipes that are easy to prepare are accompanied by inspiring images of both the food and garden.

Bevan strongly believes in cooking with only the freshest and best seasonal ingredients and is passionate about using good, local produce. This philosophy is shared with readers with the inclusion of simple growing tips for the keen home gardener and cook.

HarperCollins NZ | August | $44.99

Easy Bill Granger

Famed for his bright and breezy approach to cooking, Bill Granger has believed in fuss-free food right from the start. So for Easy, his tenth book, he wanted to pack it with 100 familiarly fresh, straightforwardly delicious recipes, but make them even easier — and even more irresistible.

Bursting with colour and instilled with Bill’s infectious energy, Easy will inspire readers to make imaginative meals from the most mundane of basic ingredients.

Bill Granger, restaurateur, food writer and television chef, is a self-taught cook whose joyful approach to cooking and real-life experience in a domestic kitchen guarantee his enduring popularity.

International

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HarperCollins AUS | October | $59.99

Fresh and LightDonna Hay

Fresh and Light is full of new recipes that combine the freshest ingredients, pantry staples and personal tricks for a lighter touch.

Fresh and Light is my answer to my own best efforts to juggle for the perfect balance. Designed to complement my existing repertoire, it’s full of new recipes that combine the freshest ingredients, pantry staples and my personal tricks for a lighter touch.

Divided by meal, fresh and light is a solution-packed book of recipes loaded with power foods to give you the balance you need across your week. There are light breakfasts, tasty lunch box tips and fast dinner solutions to give you ideas for every time of the day.

We all have our guilty pleasures in life. Fresh and Light lets you enjoy them and is for all those times when you’re seeking something a little more virtuous. And that’s really the best kind of indulgence of all - the one with balance. - Donna Hay

HarperCollins NZ | November | $49.99

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InternationalKitchen Diaries II: A Year of Simple CookingNigel Slater

A beautiful and inspiring companion volume to the acclaimed Kitchen Diaries.

Kitchen Diaries was one of the most acclaimed food books of recent times. With Kitchen Diaries II: A Year of Simple Cooking, Nigel Slater returns to this inspiring structure — recording the food he buys, prepares, eats and shares throughout the year.

With more than 300 recipes, many from his hugely successful TV series, Simple Suppers, Kitchen Diaries II is full of classic Slater ideas, from a cider loaf to start the New Year, to an indulgent chicken and leek pie or a simple, fresh salad of pears and bitter leaves.

Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books. His autobiography, Toast, won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year.

Fourth Estate | October | $59.99

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Fast, Fresh and Easy Meals Lorraine Pascale

Lorraine Pascale’s cookery career is nothing short of a phenomenon.

Within just a year she had three successful prime time BBC cookery series, attracting millions of viewers. With sales over half a million books in the UK, she was the biggest debut author of 2011 and the biggest ever debut cookery author, even outselling Jamie Oliver.

Now it’s New Zealand’s turn to be swept away by Lorraine Pascale with her latest cookbook, Fresh, Fast and Easy Meals, which includes 100 recipes, each with an accompanying photograph. Every recipe also includes a side-dish, making each one a complete meal.

HarperCollins UK | September | $39.99

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