The best new cookbooks offer so much more than recipes, they tell stories, provide history and context, and share culinary traditions, rituals and memories, inviting readers into the lives of their authors. Great cookbooks like great recipes provide so much more than instructions to making delicious dishes. They offer opportunities to get a taste of … Read more
The best cookbooks by Australian women chefs, cooks, bakers, and writers include Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by mother-daughter Farida Ayubi and Durkhanai Ayubi, Use It All by Alex Elliot-Howery and Jaimee Edwards of Sydney café Cornersmith, and Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull, the owner-baker of Melbourne bakery Beatrix. If you’re looking … Read more
How to cook rice around the world, everywhere from Afghanistan to Australia, India to Indonesia, according to experts across the globe: chefs, street food cooks, food writers, cookbook authors, culinary guides and more, who have provided tips to cooking rice dishes, from congee to curd rice, fried rice to rice desserts. This guide to how … Read more
Make Rice Not War is my call to rice lovers to open their minds to different ways of cooking rice other than their own. It’s a celebration of the diversity of rice dishes and the countless ways rice is cooked around the world. It’s intended to inspire curiosity in how others cook rice in their … Read more
These are the best Anthony Bourdain books to read and cook from if you’re a food loving traveller – if the first thing you think about when you dream of a place is food, and when you return home the first thing you do is cook the food of the places you’ve been. Our favourite … Read more