Here are our top cookbooks to keep in your kitchen.
What Katie Ate: At the Weekend
This cookbook takes favourite recipes from Katie Quinn Davies' wildly successful blog, along with many never-seen-before recipes, and presents them in this gorgeous book filled with Katie's unique and beautiful photography. She shares her inspiring ideas for informal get-togethers, whether it be for a couple or a crowd. Entice your guests with Katie's refreshing take on flavour-packed pizzas, salads, tapas, cocktails and decadent desserts. Buy the book here.
Deliciously Ella
See healthy eating in a new light and be inspired to transform your diet with Ella's delicious, plant-based recipes.
Ella Woodward is the author of must-read food blog www.deliciouslyella.com which has one million visitors every month from all over the world. Ella started the blog after being diagnosed with a rare illness called Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS), which left her unable to get out of bed and desperate to find something that helped. When conventional medicine failed, she turned to dietitians and overnight she gave up meat, gluten, dairy, sugar and anything processed. Since then she has blogged about her recipes and food choices and amassed a huge following online. Buy the book here.
Naked Cakes by Lyndel Miller
Recipes and inspiration for making, decorating and displaying naked cakes
Fondant haters, lazy bakers and time-poor hosts rejoice! These naked cakes are achievable, budget friendly and swoon worthy--and they provide an ideal opportunity to experiment with and display your individual creativity. Beautiful, rustic and organic in form, naked cakes are always tiered, with filling and frosting between layers but never on the outside--thus 'naked'. Buy the book here.
Mamushka by Olia Hercules
Mamushka is a celebration of the food and flavours of the "Wild East" - from the Black Sea to Baku and Armenia to Azerbaijan, with over 100 recipes for fresh, flavourful and unexpected dishes from across the region. From the Moldovan giant cheese twist and Ukrainian buns with potatoes and shallots to Garlicky Georgian poussins with spicy plum chutney and Armenian pickled wet garlic; to Napoleon cake, Wasp nest buns and Apricot and sour cherry pie. To top it off, why not enjoy a digestif of Winter punch or Blackcurrant vodka? Olia Hercules will entice you with evocative new flavours and ingredient combinations that will leave you asking yourself why you haven't been eating Ukrainian food all your life! Buy the book here.
Asian Cookery School by Adam Liaw
Even if you've never picked up a wok before, ADAM LIAW'S ASIAN COOKERY SCHOOL is your simple guide to learning Asian cuisine.
ADAM LIAW'S ASIAN COOKERY SCHOOL is your guide to simple and traditional Asian home cooking.
More than just a recipe book, it will teach you about the ingredients and techniques of the Asian kitchen for a complete understanding of how you can create authentic Asian flavours. Each chapter in this beautifully designed and exquisitely photographed cookbook is a lesson that will improve your cooking, with practical recipes designed to try out your new skills. Buy the book here.
The Detox Kitchen Bible by Lily Simpson and Rob Sampson
Lily Simpson runs The Detox Kitchen, whose boutique delis and specially designed health menus have won thousands of customers – including international celebrities. She and consultant nutritionist Rob Hobson are devoted to their philosophy of great health through great food.
Inside this book are 200 of Lily's exquisite recipes – brightly delicious and packed full of flavour thanks to her clever combinations of herbs, spices and oils. All wheat-, dairy- and refined sugar-free, you'll find recipes for invigorating breakfasts, zingy raw salads, delicious snacks and dips, vibrant fish and meat dishes, and scrumptious sweet treats. Buy the book here.
A Table in the Orchard by Michelle Crawford
Warm, down to earth and inspiring, and lushly illustrated with lip-smacking images and recipes, A Table in the Orchard, is breathtaking proof of how seductive a taste of slow living in one of the most beautiful valleys in Tasmania might be. Buy the book here.
The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry
Lola Berry's cooking is fresh, vibrant and jam-packed full of flavour - a little like Lola herself! Based around nutritionally dense wholefoods, Lola's recipes are gluten- and wheat-free, with very little dairy and no refined sugar. This truly is food that will make you glow with good health, inside and out. Buy the book here.
