Essential cookbooks to add to your collection

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Comida Mexicana

Rosa Cienfuegos

This high-design cookbook is a work of culinary art, overflowing with accessible recipes from the streets of Mexico.

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Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat

Molly Baz

A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook from Bon Appetit star Molly Baz, featuring fun, flavourful recipes anyone can make.

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Around the Table: Delicious Food for Every Day

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

With recipes ranging from quick, flavourful meals for busy weeknights to simple indulgences for summer feasts, Around the Table perfectly matches dishes to time and place.

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Very Good Salads

Louisa Allan, Shuki Rosenboim

A seasonal cookbook filled with salad and dips to accompany one very good falafel recipe.

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Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen

Lara Lee

Vibrant and authentic recipes from the bountiful islands of Indonesia.

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Samin Nosrat

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you’ll ever need.

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Intolerance-Friendly Kitchen

Georgia McDermott

Dependable, delicious recipes that make great food accessible for a range of intolerances: gluten free, FODMAP friendly and more.

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Salad: 100 recipes for simple salads & dressings

Janneke Philippi

Freshen up the table with bright and beautiful salads.

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The Vegan Cake Bible

Sara Kidd

Rediscover the baking classics you love with this plant-based cake cookbook.

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Soup Broth Bread

Rachel Allen

Every soup and bread recipe you’ll ever need, from leading chef and bestselling cookery author, Rachel Allen.

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Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence

Claire Saffitz

Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation.

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Chinese-ish: Home Cooking, Not Quite Authentic, 100% delicious

Rosheen Kaul,Joanna Hu

Chinese-ish is modern, unconventional, innovative, vibrant, tasty, colourful, incredibly delicious food.

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Ottolenghi SIMPLE

Yotam Ottolenghi

with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy.

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East: 120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes

Meera Sodha

A vibrant plant-based cookbook from the Guardian ‘New Vegan’ columnist and award-winning author of Fresh India.

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In Praise of Veg

Alice Zaslavsky

A joyous must-have vegetable companion for the vegetarian or simply veg-forward

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Nistisima

Georgina Hayden

No fads, no frills, just 120 vegan recipes that have stood the test of time from award-winning food writer Georgina Hayden, currently appearing on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge.

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Salamati: Hamed’s Persian Kitchen

Hamed Allahyari

A heartwarming story of resilience, homesickness and good Persian cooking in 70 glorious recipes.

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Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over

Alison Roman

Feeding friends - and feeding yourself - is an unfussy affair with social media superstar and newly minted New York Times columnist Alison Roman.

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How to Be a Domestic Goddess

Nigella Lawson

The classic baking bible by Nigella Lawson. This is the book that helped the world rediscover the joys of baking and kick-started the cupcake revolution, from cake shops around the…

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Rick Stein at Home

Rick Stein

From bestselling cook and food writer Rick Stein, a stunning collection of all-time favourite recipes and essays that celebrate the rhythms and rituals of home cooking

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The Cook’s Companion

Stephanie Alexander

Intended to be used everyday. This work features recipes from apple tart to zuccini souffle. It offers advice and shows which foods go best together.

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Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean

Yasmin Khan

A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (International), Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award, Longlisted for the 2022 Art of Eating Prize, A New York Times Best…

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The Flavour Thesaurus

Niki Segnit

A unique treasury of flavour combinations, offering endless diversion and inspiration for the creative cook.

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The Real Food Companion

Matthew Evans

The definitive Matthew Evans book on food, celebrating resolute flavours, integrity, and the joy of home cooking with 200 simple, delicious, unpretentious produce-driven recipes.

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More Fish, More Veg

Tom Walton

A delicious answer to eating more sustainably: simple, family-friendly flavours with easy seafood techniques by renowned recipe writer and chef Tom Walton.

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Everything I Love to Cook

Neil Perry

An entirely new-look Neil Perry that surpasses anything previously published and is everything you need to know to cook like Neil at home.

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First, Cream the Butter and Sugar

Emelia Jackson

An instant modern classic: an exquisite baking bible with over 150 recipes for beginners and experts alike.

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First Nations Food Companion

Damien Coulthard, Rebecca Sullivan

A groundbreaking celebration of the most accessible and popular Australian native ingredients and their uses in the everyday home kitchen.

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Rick Stein’s Secret France

Rick Stein

Discover the enchanting essence of authentic French home cooking with the man who introduced us to it. We think we know French cooking, but we are about to discover true…

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Japanese Home Cooking

Maori Murota

Authentic and delicious Japanese food you really can cook at home, from international best-selling Maori Murota, author of Tokyo Cult Recipes.

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A Cook’s Book

Nigel Slater

A Cook’s Book is the story of Nigel Slater’s life in the kitchen.

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The New Classics

Donna Hay

Now in paperback, this is the bestselling, landmark cook book from Donna Hay, the ultimate collection of Donna’s all-time favourite classic recipes.

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A Modern Way to Eat

Anna Jones

A modern vegetarian cookbook packed with quick, healthy and fresh recipes, that fits perfectly with how we want to eat now.

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Beatrix Bakes

Natalie Paull

Embrace the unparalleled joys of baking seasonally and creatively with this mouth-watering collection of recipes brought to you by Melbourne’s tiny beloved bakery, Beatrix.

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A Year of Simple Family Food

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

This is the kind of food you will want to share with your loved ones throughout the year.

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One: Pot, Pan, Planet

Anna Jones

This book is good for you, your pocket and the planet.

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Ferment For Good: Ancient Foods for the Modern Gut: The Slowest Kind of Fast Food

Sharon Flynn

Ferment for Good is a guide to discovering the joys of fermentation in its myriad variations.

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COOK

Karen Martini

This is an essential collection of more than 1000 recipes, from old favourites to brilliant new dishes.

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Dining In

Alison Roman

Casual, vegetable-forward food from a new voice in food writing

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Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan)

Shannon Martinez,Mo Wyse

Plant-based innovation in the kitchen - big, bold, flavourful vegan food.

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Preserving the Italian Way

Pietro Demaio

An engaging mix of preserving recipes mixed with memories and anecdotes of childhood and travel.

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Yiayia Next Door

Daniel Mancuso, Luke Mancuso

This is a book about the power of food to bring people together.

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The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

The must-have Italian cookbook by Marcella Hazan, considered by chefs and fellow food writers to be one of the foremost authorities on Italian cuisine.

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Community: New Edition

Hetty Lui McKinnon

This is simple but generous food that you will want to make every night of the week, for those you love.

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Recipetin Eats: Dinner

Nagi Maehashi

150 dinner recipes. Fail-proof. Delicious. Addictive. The food you want to cook, eat and share, night after night.

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Jerusalem

Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi

Jerusalem sets 100 of Yotam and Sami’s inspired, accessible recipes within the cultural and religious melting pot of this diverse city.

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Home Made: Cooking at home with Melbourne’s best chefs, cooks and restaurants

Broadsheet Media

Home Made is a love letter to Melbourne food and the people we share it with.

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Deliciously Ella: Quick & Easy

Ella Mills

In her fifth cookbook, Ella shares more than 100 new recipes - with a special focus on quick and easy, so you can easily build her plant-based recipes into your…

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Essential cookbooks to add to your collection

Comida Mexicana

Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat

Around the Table: Delicious Food for Every Day

Very Good Salads

Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Intolerance-Friendly Kitchen

Salad: 100 recipes for simple salads & dressings

The Vegan Cake Bible

Soup Broth Bread

Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence

Chinese-ish: Home Cooking, Not Quite Authentic, 100% delicious

Ottolenghi SIMPLE

East: 120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes

In Praise of Veg

Nistisima

Salamati: Hamed’s Persian Kitchen

Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over

How to Be a Domestic Goddess

Rick Stein at Home

The Cook’s Companion

Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean

The Flavour Thesaurus

The Real Food Companion

More Fish, More Veg

Everything I Love to Cook

First, Cream the Butter and Sugar

First Nations Food Companion

Rick Stein’s Secret France

Japanese Home Cooking

A Cook’s Book

The New Classics

A Modern Way to Eat

Beatrix Bakes

A Year of Simple Family Food

One: Pot, Pan, Planet

Ferment For Good: Ancient Foods for the Modern Gut: The Slowest Kind of Fast Food

COOK

Dining In

Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan)

Preserving the Italian Way

Yiayia Next Door

The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Community: New Edition

Recipetin Eats: Dinner

Jerusalem

Home Made: Cooking at home with Melbourne’s best chefs, cooks and restaurants

Deliciously Ella: Quick & Easy