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Coconut Cookery by Valerie MacBean
A collection of 130 delicious recipes--each featuring coconut as a main ingredient--combines history, coconut facts, and anecdotes with practical food preparation tips and techniques. Original.
Paperback, 200 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Magic in the Kitchen by Jan Bartelsman
The photographer-author of this volume captures the personalities of star chefs in this collection of hand-tinted photo-montages, enhanced by digitially generated elements. Also included are interviews and recipes from chefs such as Julia Child, Thomas Keller, charlie Trotter and Daniel Boulud.
Hardback, 224 pp, $85.00. Buy
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Off the Shelf: Cooking from the Pantry by Donna Hay
Donna Hay shares her know-how and confidence in how to create a fabulous meal at short notice. She shows that with a well-stocked pantry and a handful of fresh ingredients, imaginative mealtime solutions are surprisingly easy to throw together. Each chapter takes a comprehensive look at a pantry basic - its origins, varieties, storage - and at a range of simple ideas for its use, before exploring its application in a range of modern, stylish recipes. This is a beautiful and inspirational book too, combining simple, contemporary recipes with a unique visual style. The ultimate guide to getting your provisions sorted for everyday cookery, for unexpected guests and for special occasions.
Paperback, 192 pp, $39.99. Buy
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Happy Days with the Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
For Jamie Oliver, food is all about happy days - not just cooking superbly fresh and funky ingredients, but good fun, great eating and top-quality time spent with friends and family. Now Jamie, one of Britain's best-loved chefs, gives us Happy Days, his third book, to accompany his fantastic new series of The Naked Chef on BBC2. Jamie believes in finding the best ingredients and making tasty, easy, sociable food with the minimum of fuss. Like his first two books, Happy Days is filled with fantastic salads, pastas, meat, fish, breads and desserts for all occasions. Enjoy yourself, get stuck in . . . Happy days!
Hardback, 288 pp, $64.95. Buy
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Cooking for One by Molly Perham
For singles looking for a quick fix in the kitchen, this book provides a short cut to great-tasting cooking. This is the book that anyone who has to face cooking for themselves at the end of a long day won't want to be without. It puts the fun and freedom back into pleasing yourself in the kitchen. Molly Perham proves that cooking for one can be creative, quick and economical - and tastes a whole lot better than the so-called 'fast food' options. This is the cookbook to stimulate a whole new appetite for doing it yourself.
Paperback, 160 pp, $9.99. Buy
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The Recipe Writer's Handbook by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann
Offering guidance on the elements of the recipe writing art for anyone who develops, tests, writes, or edits recipes for publication or broadcast, this guide details: recipe testing and writing; and format, syntax, spelling, terminology, weights and measures.
Paperback, 336 pp, $34.95. Buy
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Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
A collection of uncomplicated, fresh recipes that are easy to make after a busy day at the office, fun to linger over at weekends or to make with the kids, dreamy to look at and delicious to eat. Recipes include late breakfasts, party food, TV dinners, trashy food.
Hardback, 260 pp, $65.00. Buy
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The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
Designed to inspire confidence in people who may never have tried cooking before, this collection of recipes is by Britain's young chef, from the BBC2 series of the same name. It is for those who don't have time to spend all evening cooking. It was inspired by Jamie's own experience of trying to re-create his exciting restaurant recipes in small kitchens in flats in Hampstead and Hammersmith. With limited time and ingredients, he found himself stripping down his restaurant recipes and adapting them to build up a foolproof repertoire of simple, delicious and feisty recipes.
Paperback, 256 pp, $39.95. Buy
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Flavours by Donna Hay and others
Each chapter features a favourite flavour and provides a comprehensive description of the ingredient itself, origins, varieties, usage, storage and range of simple, delicious, stylish recipes.
Hardback, 192 pp, $39.95. Buy
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Solo Suppers by Joyce Goldstein
Most recipes serve four to six people, leaving the solo cook in a predicament. Enter acclaimed cookbook author Joyce Goldstein and her stellar repertoire of meals that are fun for one. From hearty recipes like Spicy Tortilla and Lime Soup and Tuscan Style Rib-Eye Steak with Rosemary and Garlic, to dressed-up salads and seasonal fruit gratins, each dish is designed to serve one in style. Essential tips and techniques offer valuable advice on smart shopping for one and stocking the pantry. Numerous recipe variations take advantage of seasonal ingredients, while an array of sauces can turn that salmon fillet or lamb steak into a gourmet feast. When the good company is your own, Solo Suppers is the way to go.
Paperback, 144 pp, $27.95. Buy
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At Grandmother's Table by Ellen Berkeley
Hardback, 298 pp, $34.95. Buy
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How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
This reassuring cookbook demonstrates that it's not actually hard to bake a tray of muffins, or a sponge layer cake, but that the appreciation and satisfaction they can bring are disproportionately high. There is a wide range of mouthwatering recipes.
Hardback, 388 pp, $79.95. Buy
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The Herbfarm Cookbook: a Guide to the Vivid Flavors of Fresh Herbs by Jerry Traunfeld
Provides two hundred recipes that incorporate fresh herbs as an essential ingredient to the creation, such as basilwood smoked salmon and apple-rosemary shortcake.
Hardback, 448 pp, $69.95. Buy
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Delia's How to Cook, Book 2 by Delia Smith
The second of two books in which Delia Smith presents a straightforward cookery course for people of all ages and abilities. It looks at cooking with meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, chocolate and dairy products, and contains 120 recipes.
Hardback, 256 pp, $55.00. Buy
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The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook and Guide to Kitchenware by Chuck Williams
Compiled by the founder of the Williams-Sonoma cooking equipment company, the first section of this cookbook presents information and advice on both basic and specialty cooking equipment, while the second section utilizes this equipment to its best advantage.
Hardback, 16 pp, $39.95. Buy
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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten
Presents a collection of recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, and accompaniments.
Hardback, 256 pp, $48.95. Buy
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Favourite Comfort Food by "Martha Stewart Living" Magazine
Celebrates the food that makes people feel at home--macaroni & cheese, mashed potatoes, clam chowder, pancakes, omelets, meatloaf, chicken pot pie, and shepherd's pie.
Paperback, 144 pp, $30.95. Buy
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James McNair's Favorites by James McNair
This best-selling author has collected his all-time favourites in one definitive volume. With over 350 recipes, James McNair's culinary journey begins with scrumptious breakfasts, goes around the world for hot and hearty main dishes (plus vegetables, breads, and zippy condiments), and finishes delectably with a legion of sweets. In addition to terrific recipes, readers get the benefit of McNair's time-tested tips on such topics as making pasta, cooking grains of all types, and forming the perfect pie crust. Filled with innovative dishes and a colourful portfolio of McNair's award-winning food photography, James McNair's Favorites is destined to become a basic text for every 21st-century kitchen.
Hardback, 584 pp, $45.00. Buy
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How to Eat by Nigella Lawson
Aims to give confidence to the ordinary home cook by providing hundreds of recipes and menus and by encouraging the reader to see cooking in context and, most importantly, to acquire a real understanding. Coverage includes kitchen basics & children's food.
Paperback, 544 pp, $59.95. Buy
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Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson
Alphabetically arranged, this work offers 160 recipes designed to please rather than simply impress. There is a chapter on each food and it presents recipes that can be prepared by anyone with basic cooking skills. From grilled aubergine with pesto.
Paperback, 240 pp, $34.95. Buy
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