"Book & Cook" Culinary Workshop with Sally Holland, author of Goodbye Gluten

A very special "Book & Cook" Culinary Workshop with Sally Holland, author of Goodbye Gluten Tuesday 8 March, 7pm We are most excited to be hosting an evening with Sally Holland, author of Goodbye Gluten, in our kitchen on Tuesday 8 March. Sally is a self-confessed 'foodie' who launched her career in the food industry working in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly Test Kitchen, under the magazine's iconic food editor Tui Flower. 30 years later, having raised her family and retained her passion for cooking, Sally had to radically adapt her culinary skills when her husband was diagnosed with coeliac disease. Taking up the challenge, she drew on her home science background to create a range of delicious gluten-free dishes that they could share with friends & family. The secret to Sally's success is her own gluten free flour mix made from easily sourced, inexpensive ingredients, that works perfectly with all 90 recipes in the book. As with all our Book & Cook Culinary Workshops a copy of this beautiful 240-page, hardback cookbook is included in the ticket price (rrp of the book $55). On the night Sally will share the secrets of successful gluten free cooking and create a selection of her favourite savoury & sweet recipes from the book. A generous tasting portion of each dish will be served. It is often said that food brings people together but, in the case of coeliac disease & gluten intolerance, it can set people apart. Goodbye Gluten aims to bridge the gap with tasty, regular food that can be enjoyed by everybody. We'd love you to join us! Bookings essential & tickets are strictly limited.  Details

EAT YOUR BOOKS

Dear BookmanBeattie, Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy – but you don’t have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest finds. Every day recipes are added from the best blogs and websites. As a member, you can also add your own favorite online recipes using the Bookmarklet. With EYB, you can have a searchable index of all your recipes in one place! Happy cooking and baking everyone!   From magazines: 5 bean recipes by Chris Morocco from the February issue of indexed Bon Appétit Magazine   From UK books: 13 recipes from A. Wong - The Cookbook: Extraordinary Dim Sum, Exceptional Street Food & Unexpected Chinese Dishes, from Sichuan to Yunnan by Andrew Wong   From AUS/NZ books: 17 recipes from Out of the Bottle: Easy and Delicious Recipes for Making and Using Your Own Preserves by Sally Wise, indexed by an EYB member

Meze to publish MasterChef champion's cookbook

 February 18, 2016 by Natasha Onwuemezi - The Bookseller

Meze Publishing has acquired the debut cookbook from 2015 MasterChef champion Simon Wood entitled At Home with Simon Wood: Fine Dining Made Simple.

The book will showcase Wood’s “unique approach” to fine dining at home and shares his tips, tricks and signatures recipes to "take your home-cooking to the next level".

Throughout the book, Wood presents a collection of “elegant and delicious” dishes such as his signature wild mushroom ravioli with sage butter and panna gratta, and crispy lamb salad with baba ganoush and flatbread. It includes “invaluable tips on how to maximise flavours and textures", as well as how to “plate to perfection”.

Wood said: “I hope that this book will pass on some of my passion for the art of plating, and the intensity of flavour you can achieve with just a few simple ingredients. My aim is to help you lose some of your culinary inhibitions, so that eventually you’ll never be scared to try anything.”
Before applying for MasterChef, Wood was a data manager. Now Wood is executive chef at The Oldham Event Centre.

Meze Publishing has world rights to the title and will publish At Home with Simon Wood on 11th April, priced at £20

Jamie Oliver to release two cookbooks in 2016

February 18, 2016 by Katherine Cowdrey - The Bookseller

Michael Joseph is to publish two new books from Jamie Oliver in 2016.

The first, called Family Super Food, will be on the subject of "healthy eating for the family", and the second, Jamie’s Christmas, will be "a long awaited Christmas book".
The news breaks a pattern where Oliver traditionally only publishes one title per year in the autumn season. The release date for each new book publishing in 2016 has yet to be disclosed. 
Louise Moore, managing director of Michael Joseph, said: “It is every publisher’s dream to have an author like Jamie and to have two books in one year is truly a gift for us and his fans. I can’t wait to eat from the Family Super Food book, and Christmas is such a stressful time for the cook in the family, so who better to hold your hand through the most important meal of the year.”
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Peanut Butter Granola Bars

David Lebovitz

Peanut Butter Granola Bars David, 17 Feb  I have a mixed history with granola bars. The only ones I’ve ever made that were absolute perfection was when I had some peanut butter frosting leftover from a cupcake recipe that I was playing around with. I mixed in some other ingredients into a bowl of leftover frosting on the counter, perhaps more peanut butter, some nuts, a handful of oats, etc, until it looked like what I thought granola bar batter would look like, then pressed it into a pan and baked them. I took them on vacation with us and sitting on the beach in Provence, we enjoyed what turned out to be the best granola bars ever. Since I was on vacation, and didn’t have a kitchen, it wasn’t the time to recreate them, but I did jot down some notes for when I got home. And sure enough, after multiple trying to get them right, again, I gave up. In a lesson that you don’t need to hold onto things, and that it’s okay to enjoy something at that moment – then let it go – let it go, I did. And then, I didn’t. I had planned to include les barres de céréales maison (sometimes known as barres énergétiques) as the last recipe in my book, as sort of an allegory of triumph over adversity. (Which seems to be a recurring theme in life…) But as sometimes happens, adversity just wins and you just gotta let it go, once and for all. Continue Reading Peanut Butter Granola Bars...

Cooks and their books

By Greg Fleming - New Zealand Herald - Wednesday Feb 17, 2016

The French Café's Simon Wright photographed at home by Ted Baghurst. Photo / Ted Baghurst.

A chef's passion for food is wonderful to behold.

When I met Yael Shochat, owner of Ima (wonderful and affordable Middle Eastern food in Fort St -- try the shakshuka), she couldn't stop talking about the food of her beloved Tel Aviv -- a city she says is serving some of the best food in the world (chef Eyal Shani is one of her food heroes). So good she even finds herself looking up menus online and reliving meals vicariously.
Renee Coulter cited the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Cook Book as one of her early inspirations. She was eight.
"I'd flick through its pages allocating the different cakes to various neighbourhood kids and cousins. If a mum or aunt pulled off a great rendition of a 'choo choo train' or the 'jelly swimming pool', they were stars."

She credits that book and pretending to be Alison Holst with her younger assistant as the beginning of what would become K Rd's answer to a Cuban cantina -- Coco's Cantina.
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Orange and Spiced Sweet Potato Cake with Date Caramel

18 February 2016

RECIPES DRINKS PEOPLE & PLACES

FRIDAY BAKING   Orange and Spiced Sweet Potato Cake with Date Caramel   This scrumptious, melt-in-the-mouth cake has lashings of gorgeous date caramel and pillows of airy cream cheese icing. Read more     TUCK IN   Tropical Bircher Muesli with Mango and Coconut   Start your morning off right with this delicious and bright breakfast idea from Dish food writer Sarah Tuck. Read more

Hello Graham This week, greying skies seem to have marked the end of the hottest season. While there's (hopefully) still some sun ahead, I've already been on the hunt for some ideas to stretch out the summer. Above, Sarah Tuck's Tropical Bircher Muesli is a beautifully bright way to start your day. Below, you can read about the summer-inspired fare new Auckland restaurant Fish Fish is serving all year round, or about some of the eateries I visited during a sunny weekend in the capital. Online Editor,

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