Title:
At Home At Play
Author:
Penny Oliver
Genre:
Cookery
Penny Oliver, the New Zealand author of Beach, Bach, Boat, Barbeque, has returned to outdoor pursuits for her latest book At Home, At Play. With fabulous photographs of rivers, cooking over outdoor fires, mountains, camping with frost on tents, kayaking and heavy snowfalls, she intersperses her recipes – divided into chapters called Eat Up
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Title:
Basic But Brilliant
Author:
Genevieve McGough
Genre:
Cookery
It’s not often that chefs can manage to simplify techniques so that they are both intelligible and useful to those of us who confine our cooking to the home kitchen but Auckland-based Genevieve McGough has managed it in Brilliant but Basic. In this slim publication she deals with a total of 19 different techniques, teaching formulas for useful
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Title:
100 Best Restaurants in Ireland 2006
Author:
John McKenna, Portfolio Books Limited, Sally McKenna,
Release Date:
2006-12
Pages:
143
With 15 years of eating and sleeping the length and breadth of the country in a tireless quest for the best of the best, John and Sally McKenna have it down to a fine art. This year’s editions of The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants and The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay are as wonderfully opinionated and idiosyncratic as ever. And also
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Title:
Zarbo - Recipes From a New Zealand Deli
Author:
Mark McDonough and Zarbo Deli & Café
Genre:
Cookery
Mark McDonough is the owner of leading Auckland deli and café Zarbo so, in a way, this cookbook is like a shop window for his own store. But, to McDonough’s credit, there’s little direct plugging of Zarbo merchandise although the logo does appear occasionally in the moody black and white pictures scattered throughout the book.
Sometimes
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Title:
Around Ireland with a Pan
Author:
Éamonn Ó Catháin
Genre:
Cookery
Irish chef Éamonn Ó Catháin will be a familiar face to anyone who’s ever flicked to TG4 and caught Bia’s Bothar, his food series as Gaeilge. Entertaining and informative, his trip through the foodie highways and byways of Ireland was something that’d been done many times before but Bia’s Bothar was none the less enjoyable
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Title:
The Restaurant
Author:
Gary Flood, Regina Lobby, Sharyn Mitchell,
Genre:
Cooking
Release Date:
Nov 1 2004
Pages:
134
While I was still in Ireland when The Restaurant programme started, the lack of a television set precluded me from actually seeing the stars in action but the recently published book of the series gives a good picture of how it worked. Each week The Restaurant played host to a celebrity chef who planned the menu, chose the wine and, together with
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Title:
Trattoria Food for Family and Friends
Author:
Ursula Ferrigno
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
Mitchell Beazley
Release Date:
2008-03
Pages:
256
My first introduction to Ursula Ferrigno was through a book called Bread (Dorling Kindersley) that she co-wrote with Eric Treuille, the owner of London shop/haven Books For Cooks. It’s an eminently useful publication with, as is the Dorling Kindersley way, plenty – almost too many – illustrations. This has become a much-used publication
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Title:
A Taste of West Cork
Author:
Rory Morahan
Genre:
Cookery
Release Date:
Feb 1 2005
Pages:
49
West Cork is a place apart. This book is very much a product of the region, presenting recipes that will both delight the senses and guide the user to the natural qualities and flavours innate to West Cork. Chef Rory Morahan brings a modern twist and style to all of his dishes. Traditional recipes like brown soda bread and stuffed pigs' trotters
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Title:
Taste: A New Way to Cook
Author:
Sybil Kapoor
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
Mitchell Beazley
Release Date:
2003
In a world full of cookbooks, Sybil Kapoor’s Taste: A New Way to Cook is truly an innovation. Kapoor writes from a more scientific perspective than most food writers, explaining in great detail about the elementary tastes of sour, salt, umani (savoury), bitter and sweet. She helps the reader to understand basic taste combinations and how these
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