National & Regional Cuisine Books

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...

Winner of the 2011 Best Cookbook in the World for 2010 at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The cuisines of the South Pacific island nations are noted for their sensational use of coconut cream, fresh fruit and the most delicate fish. Away from the big resort hotels, skilled local cooks make th...

Taking her inspiration from her cook school in beautiful Umbria, Jo Seagar shows us how to make classic Italian recipes the easy way. In her inimitable way Jo teaches us that authentic doesn't have to mean difficult. She demystifies gnocchi, risotto, making your own pasta and pizza bases, and many o...

"Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey" is an ambitious journey, avoiding the beaten track and tourist hot-spots, in search of the authentic food of Southeast Asia. In this accompanying book to the major "BBC" series, Rick shares his favourite recipes and some well-known classic dishe...

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 ...

"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...

A guide to preparing food using a process which has its origins in the days when preservation of food was not as simple as just throwing it in the fridge. Smoking ensured that foods would last until the next hunting season. By using salt to draw out moisture over a period of days, or even weeks, the...

The Country Calendar Cookbook with Allyson Gofton brings together two of New Zealand's best-loved icons in a tribute to rural New Zealand. Featuring engaging stories from the top-rating television show Country Calendar, this stunning cookbook showcases New Zealand produce at its best.  Ally...

'I've wanted to make a series in Spain for a long time. I love Spanish food, I've been going there since I was a young boy - but until quite recently I don't think people really took the food seriously. Thanks to a handful of really dedicated Spanish chefs and a growing enthusiasm for its rugged...

The Southern Man. No matter where he lives his heart is always in the south. He's straight talking and straight shooting. He's as rugged as the southern landscape. He loves a Speight's and he loves a girl who loves a Speight's. This is a masculine and hardy high-quality cookbook - a collection o...

Travelling around New Zealand and looking for a good feed that isn't going to cost you the earth? Feeling peckish and in the mood for something special to the area you find yourself in and not sure where to find it? Want to take a visitor somewhere nice to eat that isn't going to bore you to tears b...

Published to accompany Rick Stein's new five-part television series for BBC2, this new book starts where French Odyssey left off - at the mouth of the Rhone in the port of Marseilles. Reluctantly abandoning his idyllic canal boat, the Anjodi, Rick takes to the public ferry system which plies between...

Shane Delia, owner of Melbourne's award-winning Maha Bar and Grill, brings us his first cookbook, a superb collection of recipes that showcases his distinctive fusion of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food, with a strong focus on the full-flavoured dishes prepared by Shane's large Australian-Malte...

This book is really special to me. It has been a long time coming, but sometimes it takes a few decades of looking at other countries to realise how wonderful your own really is. I grew up in one of the first true British 'gastropubs', which my Mum and Dad still run today. For me, the heart and soul...

This isn't just any cookery book. It is Mastering the Art of French Cooking, first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appetite...

Gordon Ramsay embarks on a culinary journey around India, discovering the breadth and depth of cooking of the country. His new cookbook is packed with the best recipes from his travels, showing you how to cook authentic dishes that are bursting with flavour. Three-star chef Gordon Ramsay's favourite...

With fantastic coastlines ranging from serene and tranquil to rustic and wild, New Zealand is a fishing, diving and boating Mecca. Five of the best chefs from the highly regarded Auckland Seafood School share their most popular recipes - with the aim to introduce the reader to fish and shellfish ...

Judith Cullen goes to market! From Nelson and Blenheim, from the Hawkes Bay to Central Otago, Parnell to Wellington, Judith has visited the most popular ‘new-old’ alternatives to the supermarket. Drawing from her travels, Judith has created an abundant, vibrant cookbook that embodies everyth...

With the publication of the bestselling 'Classic Italian Cookbook' and 'Second Classic Italian Cookbook', Marcella Hazan deservedly became one of the most respected and best-known cookery writers in the world. Now, a new generation of cooks is ready to master the art of Italian cooking at home and t...

A coffee-table book with 158 recipes and over 170 photographic images of the Volcanic Plateau, including landscape, food, culture and people. Rotorua photographer Gerhard Egger enjoys capturing the visual nuances of his home region as only someone who’s lived there appreciates: the autumn reflect...

In 1961 Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle, collaborating on the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, began a virtual revolution in American cookery. In the years that have passed, as their book has found its way into almost 700,000 American families, and as Julia Chil...

What do you fancy for dinner tonight? Italian? Chinese? French? With so many varieties of cuisine on offer in our globally-growing lives, Gordon Ramsay has put together an amazing book featuring his favourite recipes from around the world. Each chapter features a different country's dishes that we l...

From two acclaimed, award-winning restaurants came two of the most acclaimed, award-winning cookbooks ever published--now packaged together in a luxurious slipcased boxed set, the ideal gift for any food lover. The French laundry cookbook captures, through recipes, essays, profiles, and extraordi...

Have you ever wondered how the French make entertaining at home look so effortless? Join Australia's favourite French chef, Manu Feildel, as he guides you through one hundred classic bistro recipes that will expand your dinner party repertoire and impress your guests. Whether you are looking for cle...

Bento fever has recently swept across the West, fuelled not just by an interest in cute, decorative food, but by the desire for an economical, healthy approach to eating in these times of recession. A leading light in the popularization of bento has been Makiko Itoh, whose blog, Just Bento, has near...

For readers of Frances Mayes's bestselling phenomenon "Under the Tuscan Sun" comes "The Tuscan Sun Cookbook," in which Mayes and her husband Ed celebrate the ease of the Tuscan kitchen and the joys of the table with more than 125 recipes, stunning food and lifestyle photography, and Frances and Ed's...

In this book to accompany the TV series, stunning photography and Gordon's inspirational travel stories combine to depict a richly-textured portrait of a continent. With breathtaking landscapes as his backdrop, Gordon is welcomed into local communities and shown the age-old traditions and secrets th...

 This is a book for lovers of French food and for every home cook who has ever dreamed of creating the perfect niçoise, bavarois, beef bourguignon or tarte tatin. French-Australian chef and television star Manu Feildel introduces you to the absolute classics of the French kitchen and...

"India: The Cookbook" is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking, with over 1,000 easy-to-follow, authentic recipes covering the length and breadth of India, including starter salads and kebabs; fish, vegetarian and meat main courses; breads and snacks; pickles and side dishes; and...

In this delicious collection of new recipes, Madhur Jaffrey shows us that Indian food need not be complicated or involve hours in the kitchen. Take a few well chosen spices and readily available ingredients, and in a few easy steps you can make: succulent chicken and potato curry from Lucknow; delic...

"Creole" is a sumptuous celebration of this unique and much-loved style of cooking. The heritage of French, Spanish and African settlers, Creole cookery takes the best of these cuisines and combines them with native American ingredients to produce a style of cooking that is rich in history...

"Ms. Lawson brings to life the sensual aspects of cooking, helping you understand not only what you are after, but also the pleasure of the journey."--New York Times, "Nigella is an icon; a smart sexy woman who promulgates the idea that it might be fun or even relaxing to make ti...

Keller showcases dishes that can be made every day (and not just for special occasions). Invaluable lessons, secrets, tips and tricks - as well as charming personal anecdotes - accompany recipes for such classics as the best fried chicken, beef Stroganoff, roasted spring leg of lamb, hamburger, the ...

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. A once-unrecognizable word, it's now synonymous with the award-winning restaurants of the same name in New York City: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Ssäm Bar, Ko, and Milk Bar. Chef David Chang has single-handedly revolutionized cooking in America w...

Enjoy the best of Italian food whilst still losing weight! "The Idiet" combines simple, fresh, good-quality ingredients for an easy way to shed pounds. The Mediterranean diet is renowned for its health benefits (less saturated fats, less processed food, more 'good' fats and omega oils, mor...

Simple dishes for weeknights and weekends. These simple and fast-to-cook recipes will tempy you to head to the barbecue more often. And not just on weekends - they're so simple and so fast that they make exceptional midweek meals too. There are vegetable, seafood, chocken, duck, beef, lamb and pork ...

For those who appreciate the pleasures of the table, there are no happier reasons to travel than to explore the world's great culinary traditions. Every cuisine tells a unique story about the local landscape, climate, history, and culture - "Food Journeys of a Lifetime" will introduce you ...

It's hard to imagine a more knowledgeable and inspiring guide to the vibrant world of Thai street food than internationally renowned chef and Thai food expert David Thompson. Join him on a whirlwind tour of the curry shops and stir-fry stalls of Thailand: a float on the canals of Bangkok, on the str...

"Larousse Gastronomique", the world's classic culinary reference book, is known for its authoritative and comprehensive collection of recipes. Here it is brought up to date for 2009 in an attractive edition containing over 900 new colour and black and white photographs. All chapters ha...