R490.00
Christmas Choice 2017
Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and her new book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends and family.
Adored world-famous gourmet and chef, Nigella is back with her show on BBC and her cookbook At My Table, which celebrates the food she loves to cook for family and friends. Relaxed, with a warm, casual glamour, her recipes are will comfort and delight just about anyone. A sumptuous collection to pour over in her new cookbook.
Nourishment and well-being are two words that immediately come to mind when one opens Retreat. In it, Daniel Jardim (author of those beloved local vegetarian classics Quiet Food and The Cake the Buddha Ate) shows how cooking and eating can transform one’s life and reinvigorate one’s senses. Subtitled The Joy of Conscious Eating, this book takes one through the seasons, teaching how to use what nature provides to prepare food that is both exciting and comforting – and how to be appreciative of what it is so easy to take for granted. Here are recipes for, amongst a bounty of other dishes, Watercress and Avocado Soup, Ratatouille Terrine, Pear and Fig Crumble, Aduki and Shitake Shepherd’s Pie. This is soul food.
The Real Meal Team (Tim Noakes, Jonno Proudfoot and Bridget Surtees) has just released Raising Superheroes. This is a revolutionary way to feed children, not to be misunderstood as a no-carb diet book, but rather as advocating low sugar, low refined carbohydrate meals. His book is simply jam(sugarfree!)-packed with recipes for different age groups. There is also a really handy section on Kitchen Staples with more recipes and tips for stocking your kitchen with the basics – like stocks for soups, sauces and minces for freezing and handy future use.
Following the hue and cry of a comment taken out of context on Twitter about weaning babies, Noakes has been much in the media lately. But paging through both these books, I’m struck with the sheer ‘good sense’ of what they advocate. Neither is necessarily better, but both are a great source of information and new recipe material.
This exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from his column ‘The New Vegetarian’ for the Guardian’s Weekend magazine, and features both brand-new recipes and dishes first devised for that column. Yotam’s food inspiration comes from his strong Mediterranean background and his unapologetic love of ingredients.
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