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Our Pick of Cookery & Preserving Books
We love cooking and eating as much as we love growing things. So we've put together our collection of books for cooks who value substance over style. That's not to say these books are lacking on fresh ideas. You'll find a good mix of old and new in all of these titles. |
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| Change of Heart - Kay Baxter & Bob Corker |
This is the recipe book we've been waiting for: nearly 300 pages, over 400 recipes and all with a focus on good nourishing food that's easy to prepare.
It's a book to read as much as to cook from. We all know Kay's work with heritage fruit and vegetables but in this book she turns the spotlight on the food we eat.
It's about understanding and preparing food that you will enjoy eating and will nourish you and your family.
This is food your grandmother would recognise, taking us back to traditional diets that we've moved away from in our shift to mass-produced, store-bought stuff.
A reasure trove of information with chapters covering bottling, brewing, fermenting food, baking bread, curing meats, smoking food, making cheese and so much more. We can't recommend this book highly enough. |
| Code KPE028 |
$44.50 |
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| The Cooks Salad Garden Revisited. |
You know if a book gets a reprint it's a goody. I never knew these three great kiwi ladies were sisters. This is the ultimate book for cooks who love to garden and gardeners who love to cook, with some great history and art thrown in.
If you're really over lettuce and you like a good read from your recipe books then this is the book for you. It will fire your imagination up with new ideas for the green on the side of your plate that is for sure. 172 pages.
It also provides real information on how and when to grow and harvest all these great salad greens around the New Zealand calendar.
Just a lovely book. |
| Code KT029 |
$45.50 |
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| The Cooks Herb Garden Revisited. |
This fully revised edition of a classic book by three of New Zealand's best-known gardening cooks shows how to achieve a varied, year-round supply of herbs and use them in more than 140 creative and mouth-watering recipes.
From parsley to Vietnamese mint, sound information and helpful hints are given on the propagation, cultivation, harvesting and culinary uses of more than 20 herbs.
Pages 229 |
| Code KT029 |
$45.50 |
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| NZ Cheese Book "Cutting the Curd" |
This wonderful new book is a practical 115 page guide to home cheese-making. Author Katherine Mowbray has over 20 years experience making cheese and shares a wealth of knowledge as well as her favourite cheese recipes.
Specifically written for home cheese making on a small scale, in addition to chapters on equipment and ingredients it also includes recipes for making 14 different cheeses. It is beautifully illustrated and very easy to read and follow. |
| Code: HH8-CB $39.50 |
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| Pick, Preserve, Serve - Chris Fortune |
Chris Fortune is well known as a chef and as a leader in the Farmers' Market movement.In Pick Preserve Serve he brings home preserving bang up to date and describes each method, their advantages and disadvantages.
Organised by season, Pick, Preserve, Serve provides over 100 diverse recipes that you want to make, as well as great serving tips for each recipe. The sweet and sour beetroot is now a favourite here.
This is a beautifully published NZ book to help you enjoy local and home-grown produce year round.
It provides a modern view of Drying - Salting - Smoking - Pickling - Alcohol Oils - Bottling - Sugar curing and Freezing.
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Code HH015 $30.50 |
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| The Kiwi Sizzler Smokin Book - Chris Fortune |
Chris has also just released a new book about food smoking which we're impressed with. When it says it's a "how to guide" it actually is - full of useful information from someones who has done it. Tips', tricks and practical stuff you need to know about smoking food. Including fuel, equipment, cures and more.
It's also a good read and the wide range of mouth-watering recipes encourages you to get more adventurous with your smoker.
As well as fish, shellfish and meats there is a great vegetable section and recipes for smoking cheese, nuts and much more.
Illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs. Pages 96
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Code BB013 $30.50 |
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| A Good Spread - Recipes from the kitchens of Rural Women NZ. |
Hokey pokey biscuits, cheese straws, ginger gems, never-fail marmalade, venison casserole . . . fantastic home cooking has been going on in farm kitchens for decades.
This book brings together the best recipes from the classic 1965 Women's Division of Federated Farmers cookbook, revised and updated, along with new recipes and old favourites submitted by today's memebrs of Rural Women New Zealand.
Featuring main meals, vegetable dishes, light meals and suggestions for entertaining, as well as mouthwatering baking and fabulous puddings and desserts, this is a compendium of classic recipes, cooked by real women and handed down the generations.
The book is illustrated with images of rural life and complemented by tips and comments from rural kitchens around the country.
Pages 240 |
Code BB013 $36.00 |
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A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of NZ - Andrew Crowe |
A practical field guide to New Zealand's native edible plants.
Over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail in this useful and attractive book, with information on which part is edible and when, how plants have been utilised, particularly by Maori, their nutritional value, and where they can be found.
In a separate section, Andrew Crowe also describes important poisonous plants that are native to New Zealand or are likely to be confused with the edible plants.
Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, this informative book will be of interest to trampers, botanists and all who appreciate New Zealand's native flora.
Pages 192
Currently out of stock! |
Code BB013 $39.00 |
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Speights Southern Man Cookbook - Generous to a Fault. |
This is a masculine and hardy high-quality cookbook - a collection of simple tasty fare done the southern way and meant to be enjoyed across the country.
It features commentary from rugby legends, beer matching from the head brewer and recipes from Speight's Ale House chefs, in addition it includes stunning southern landscapes and some great yarns that will be sure to appeal to any man (and woman!).
A good dose of down-to-earth humour in the laconic style known through the memorable ad campaigns will run throughout.
Go on, this is for them!.....get the man to do the cooking!!
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Code BB013-SM $45.50 |
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