General Cookery Books

You know you're on to something when the queue for a cafe stretches out to the pavement most weekends. So it is at Little and Friday's two Auckland locations. Those in the know flock to the Little and Friday stores in Takapuna and Newmarket for addictive cream-filled donuts, buttery brioche, melt-in...

The book captures all the top recipes from the show, including biscuits, slices, breads, scones, cakes and cupcakes, muffins, savoury and sweet pies and tarts, and desserts. Filled with tips and tricks from Dean and Jade throughout the book, the reader will be able to learn how to make professional ...

The Best of Annabel Langbein - Great Food for Busy Lives is the essential kitchen handbook for modern living. Annabel is renowned for her down-to-earth, no fuss, delicious recipes that are quick and easy to make. The 600-plus recipes in this book are accessible and innovative and will inspire co...

Annabel Langbein is one of New Zealand’s best-loved food writers and the star of her own international TV series Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook. In The Free Range Cook, she showed audiences around the world how easy it is to cook sensational food using fresh seasonal ingredients from ...

Ripe Deli has established a reputation among food lovers for preparing some of the most healthy and flavoursome dishes in town. Now they have put together a collection of their most popular recipes, arranged in seasonal sections, for you to cook at home. Knowing how to cook in season means you will ...

Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook is the companion cookbook to the international TV series of the same name. With more than 150 recipes from the TV show, this gorgeous cookbook shares the secrets of Annabel Langbein's free range cooking style and shows how easy it is to put together home-cooked f...

The Original Edmonds Cookbook is back with a brand new cover and all the same classic recipe's. A New Zealand institution, with over 3 million copies sold to date. The standard cookbook. Edmond's 90-year history began with the very first Edmonds Cookery Book published in 1907 featuring a colle...

Organised by seasons, this is a must-have collection of recipes that will become favourite staples in every household. Covering breakfasts, lunches, nibbles, starters, main meals and desserts there's inspiration for everyone; and Nadia's half Kiwi/half Malaysian heritage means that her food style is...

Fresh! is a culinary journey around New Zealand from award-winning professional chef Peter Blakeway. This is a stunning hardback cookery book with recipes to suit every taste, including a simple potato salad using Otago Jersey Bennes, barbequed Marlborough crayfish, Canterbury lamb shanks,chargr...

The Starship Foundation Cookbook with fabulous recipes from top chefs and cooks in the NZ Guild of Food Writers. The focus is on family food that you can make and give to people as gifts. Generosity, home and family are major themes of the book, which is highly appropriate to the Starship Founda...

After the outstanding success of Sizzle by one of New Zealand,s most talented and prolific cooking personalities, we bring you Julie Biuso,s Never-ending Summer. Once more, Julie tempts us back to the barbecue with her sensational recipes. This is contemporary international food at its finest, perfe...

Good home-baked products are the most delicious, but finding trusted recipes or stimulating ideas is not always easy. Julie Le Clerc knows many home-cooks and professional bakers who are constantly searching for reliable, inexpensive yet innovative recipes. That's why she's keen to share her favouri...

Fishermen and good home cooks alike devoured Go Fish and its winning combination of excellent recipes, great yarns, gorgeous photography, devotion to the stunning NZ coastline and way of life, all with a touch of nostalgia. Now Al Brown applies this same formula to that icon of Kiwi life: the barbec...

Whatever your age, the memory lingers of those old-fashioned cakes our mothers and grandmothers made, and there is nothing more irresistible than the delicious aroma and flavour of homemade biscuits and muffins. This book is a nostalgic collection of Granny's tried and tested recipes of your favouri...

These 80 recipes, with photographs by Kieran Scott, first appeared in the Sunday Star-Times, Sunday magazine. They have now been brought together, in the first of a series of books, to feature all your favourites. Ray McVinnie is well known for his writing; as Food Editor of Cuisine magazine and...

Alison Holst, the champion of New Zealand home cooking, presents over 180 recipes to get you through the chilly autumn and cold winter days. From hearty soups and casseroles to comforting puddings, from warming breakfasts to winter preserves, Alison's latest book has everything you need to enjoy...

Kiwis love fresh fruit and vegetables, whether it's growing a few herbs, buying produce from farmers' markets and roadside stalls, or tending a vege garden or orchard. But how can we make the most of this seasonal bounty? For A Good Harvest, Rural Women New Zealand members have gathered over 300 tr...

4 Ingredients Christmas is overflowing with simple but stylish Christmas recipes designed to impress your guests throughout the day. Create the illusion you have worked endlessly in your kitchen anticipating your guests' arrival. 4 Ingredients Christmas is a must have in all kitchens to effortles...

Allyson Gofton's Recipe Journal is the perfect solution to keeping all your favourite recipes together in one place. The journal contains six section dividers with pockets and tabs for you to sort all your favourite recipes by: poultry, seafood, red meat, veggies, sweet treats and miscellaneous. Fil...

I'm going to show you how to put a whole meal on the table in 30 minutes flat!  Not just one dish, a whole spread of beautiful things. If, like me, you love food, and have hungry mouths to feed when you get home after a long day, then allow me to let you in on a totally revolutionary new...

CakeStar by Jade Lipton, the Australian judge of the popular TV show New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker, will help turn enthusiastic home cooks into cake decorating superstars. CakeStar is packed with more than 25 spectacular and show-stopping cakes, cupcakes and biscuits designs that are all achievab...

How many times have you opened the pantry or fridge door and thought there’s nothing to eat? Then my new book is your saviour. Whether it’s meat from the freezer, noodles from the pantry or eggs from the fridge, I’ll show you how to take everyday star ingredients and turn them into weeknight winners...

Joan Bishop is New Zealand's crockpot and slow cooker doyenne. The proof of that is that over 120,000 copies of her book have been sold to date. Her major 2010 revision of her bestselling book was extremely well received. Now she has revised it again. Why so soon? Because Joan has discovered some...

Al Brown explores the connection Kiwis have with their coasts. As he travels our stunning and varied coastline he visits iconic landmarks, meets colourful characters and hears rich tales from past and present. Each chapter covers a different stretch of coast - Red Rocks to Pencarrow (Wellington)...

All you need to know about smoking food from renowned New Zealand chef, Chris Fortune. Includes . . . • hot and cold smoking techniques • smoking essentials and pre-smoking processes; including preparation of food • information on the types of smoker you can use, including Kiwi ...

Celebrity cook Allyson Gofton gives us her own special take on slow-cooked food, sharing over 180 of her favourite recipes for the slow cooker or crockpot. With chapters on soups, main meals (beef, lamb, pork, chicken and vegetarian) and desserts, Slow is packed with meals your family will enjoy all...

Every great baker has his or her favourite recipes, and so when New Zealand's best foodwriters and chefs were asked for theirs, they came up with a treasure-trove. Designed as a book to treasure and to hand down through the generations, this beautifully packaged hardback includes 100 recipes for...

Al Brown can be counted on to find and share great New Zealand cuisine. In Go Fish Al combines his two great passions - cooking and fishing - and brings us more than 100 exceptional fish and shellfish recipes. Covering crustaceans, shellfish and fin fish of many varieties, Go Fish is the ultimate gu...

Kiwis demand Kiwi party cakes - and Rob Burns's inspired and witty designs are Kiwi to the last delicious crumb, featuring easy-to-bake cakes. With scrumptious tips and treats and tantalising tricks of the trade, even the most basic cook will be able to create memorable cakes for memorable occasions...

In response to the enthusiastic reception for her Ladies, a Plate, Alexa Johnston has gathered another tempting selection of traditional home-baking recipes. This collection has many more old favourites, like Sponge Kisses, Melting Moments and Cream Lilies, as well as a few savoury treats. Alexa...

Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley-"the most exciting place to eat in the United States," wrote Ruth Reichl in The New York Times-is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit as satisfying as a ...

Alison and Simon get many requests for recipes and books catering to special diets. Over the years the request that has come up most frequently has been for a book to help those suffering from diabetes. So, they are pleased to announce that in conjunction with Diabetes New Zealand, Simon and Alison ...

"Paul has produced some memorable and unusual combinations of ingredients, which are entertaining and delightful to the palate."- Michael Meredith, 2008 Innovative Chef of the Year, Merediths "A Pinch of Salt is a testament to Paul’s hard work and enduring talent as a fine c...

Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it ...

When cooler days prevail, you're always looking for quick, easy and homely recipes. It was Kim McCosker's aim to create a beautiful cookbook full of recipes using everyday ingredients, in one way or another that required just one pot and one bowl, allowing you to create simple and convenient meals a...

Be a pig for a day, no worries in the world, no Angry Birds trying to knock you down. The kitchen is your pigpen and life's good! So go ahead, crack an egg or two and fling your awesome self to new levels of egg-cellence with these easy and fuss-free (for the most part) recipes, addictively fun ...

Food in a Minute, the much-loved and well known New Zealand TV cooking show brings us their most recent cookbook - Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook. With more than 100 recipes, the book is divided into the easy-to-read sections of brunch, lunch and soups; salads and vegetables; mains; slow cookin...

This book has favourite recipes for easy days at the bach, from the Beach House Cook Book by Niki Bezzant, featuring simple, relaxed food for sharing with friends and family all year round.

When Nestle sent out an email invitation asking people to submit their favourite Nestle family memory and recipe, they received more than 2000 enthusiastic responses. This cookbook is a collection of the very best classic recipes from that call-out. It covers everything from dips and snacks to main ...

'What's for Pudding?' is a question that has been asked around New Zealand dining tables for generations. A family will eat the main course and be satisfied, but the main event, the thing waited for with the greatest anticipation by all is, of course, pudding. In What's for Pudding Alexa Johnsto...