Best Selling Cooking, Food & Wine Books

James Martin is famous for his easy-to-follow recipes. Now, finally, you can find your favourite James Martin recipes from his previous titles - "Eating In with James Martin", "James Martin's Great British Dinners", "James Martin's Easy British Food", "James Martin's Great British Winter Cookbook" a...

Sam Talbot is a professional chef, restaurateur, surfer, painter, philanthropist, and, since the age of 12, type 1 diabetic. Yet he has not let the disease stop him from living a rich life packed with energy, adventure, and achievement--culinary and otherwise. In his first, much-anticipated book, he...

This is a paperback edition of this definitive collection of vegetarian cuisine from around the globe, featuring over 220 authentic recipes. Organized by geographical area, every continent is featured. All the dishes are not just classics adapted for the vegetarian, but historically vegetarian in th...

"4 Ingredients Student Cookbook" provides a completely new perspective on student cookery; bringing together an exciting collection of delicious yet simple recipes, all requiring only four ingredients. Students will love these no-fuss ideas for mealtimes that provide great food on a budget...

No pasta? No dessert? No way! Everything in moderation, says Rachael Ray. After all, some days only chocolate or spaghetti will hit the spot. In "Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals," the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes ...

This title offers delicious one-pot, no-fuss recipes for soups, appetizers, main courses, side dishes, desserts, cakes, preserves and drinks, with 150 photographs. This is a wonderfully warming collection of 150 vegetarian recipes from the slow cooker, clay pot, oven and stove top, including cassero...

This bestselling title, now in its 19th year of publication, is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and vintage ratings, including the most current vintage, this is a 'must-have' publication for the new initi...

Studies show that low-carbohydrate dieting works to take weight off and improve cholesterol. As more and more people switch to the Atkins diet or variations of it, they will need recipes! 300 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes offer recipes that can be made in 15 minutes or less. This new, revised edition c...

Nigella is now not only the best and most glamorous young home cook in Britain, and a great cookery writer, she's also become a household name. Her first short series on Channel 4 had over 2 million viewers and propelled her from success into stardom. How to Eat sold spectacularly on the back of the...

The only cookbook that helps any dedicated baker even the bride make a beautiful, delicious wedding cake For the cost--conscious new couple or their family and friends making a wedding cake is one sure way to put a truly personal imprimatur on a wedding. In Wedding Cakes You Can Make, PBS food show ...

Why don't we eat more veg? They're healthy, cost-effective and, above all, delicious. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that it is time to put this to rights, as he explains in this brilliant new book. He's come up with an abundance of veg-tastic recipes, including a warm salad of grilled cour...

Wine Class: All you need to know about NZ wine is an entertaining and informative guide to wine that aims to equip the reader with the confidence to hold their own, discover what they like and understand wine. Brimming with amusing anecdotes and myth debunking, the book is based on Jo Burzyns...

There is more to cookies than just the chocolate chip variety. This comprehensive collection of all time classic cookie recipes contains loads of old favourites to bring back sweet memories of childhood, and a number of new recipes that will have the family pleading for more. You'll find staples lik...

Smuggle in some muggle magic with The Unofficial Harry Potter Muggles To Magic Cookbook. Inside this new and improved edition of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes To Butterbeer, you will find all things sugary to satisfy your sweet tooth, including Ron's Love Spell Sugar ...

Taking her inspiration from her cook school in beautiful Umbria, Jo Seagar shows us how to make classic Italian recipes the easy way. In her inimitable way Jo teaches us that authentic doesn't have to mean difficult. She demystifies gnocchi, risotto, making your own pasta and pizza bases, and many o...

Consider the strawberry: its familiar flavor and texture; its fresh, sweet smell. Now imagine the same fruit distilled and carbonated for a refreshing soda, slow-roasted for a reinvented strawberry shortcake, made into a creamy strawberry ice cream and a chewy strawberry leather, and combined with c...

Here is the ultimate recipe book for those who love to bake. It contains 165 recipes for a wide range of treats including classic recipes such as light and airy Victoria Sponge, sweet, moist and lightly spiced Carrot Cake and dense and sticky Gingerbread. There are simple cakes to rustle up quickly...

The Truffle Book is the first book in English to cover all the truffles of the world in an entertaining and non-technical manner. Written by an established author who is a truffle enthusiast and truffle grower, it covers the history of truffle consumption from their use in Greece and Rome to their p...

What's in a Monte Cristo? Who eats Spaghetti Sandwiches? And what makes a sandwich a sandwich? Find out in the entertaining and illuminating Encyclopedia of Sandwiches, a handy pocket reference to the best food since, well, sliced bread. As Alan Davidson notes in the Oxford Companion to Food, Sandwi...

Provoke astonishment, surprise, and delight when you present cakes with your personally hand-crafted cake toppers. Why go for a boring and generic store-bought cake when you can amaze your friends and family with these exciting and memorable creations? Every baker wants to personalise their celebrat...

Ths book is a paperback cookery book based on Nigel's highly successful first TV series. Its focus is on the food that Nigel is passionate about, from sausages to ice cream, potatoes to garlic. As well as including all the recipes shown in the series, it also includes many more, all based on Nigel S...

Here is a whole book of healthy uaand fast uarecipes. Fresh, light food that's easy to prepare and uses familiar ingredients (if you haven't got much time to cook, you certainly won't have time to shop for exotic ingredients). The dishes are low in fat naturally, but full of flavour and portion size...

"Raw Basics" provides easy beginning steps to add more fresh, vibrant living foods to your diet. This book answers the question 'How do I embark on a raw-foods diet?' by offering relevant real-time solutions to integrate more living foods into your eating plan, as well as simple guidelines that will...

Delicious and simple recipes for children to cook. This book contains the most requested recipes from children throughout NZ.

Remember the excitement of choosing your birthday cake as a child? Or even last week? Would it be the pirate ship? Or the train? How about the fairy princess and her castle? Kids' Birthday Cakes has sold over 200,000 copies and makes birthdays fun - for all ages. With over 100 inventive cakes rangin...

Hokey pokey biscuits, cheese straws, ginger gems, never-fail marmalade, venison casserole …fantastic home cooking has been going on in farm kitchens for decades. This book brings together the best recipes rom the classic 1965 Women's Division of Federated Farmers cookbook, revised and updated...

It can be difficult to find the time to prepare delicious food on a tight schedule, but with a little planning it's easy to take the stress out of mealtimes! In "Make-ahead Meals", the team at the UK's best-selling cookery magazine has collected mouth-watering recipes that you can prepare in advance...

This inspiring book has caused a big buzz overseas. Its secret of success: anyone can start growing their own food in a matter of minutes. There are no fancy photos, no complicated instructions … just down-to-earth , easy-to-follow ideas for square-metre plots. The author, Lolo Houbein, ha...

The newest way to eat cake since the cupcake, these cute little treats are cake and frosting mixed together, dipped in chocolate or other candy coating, and decorated to make little yellow chicks, reindeer, jack-o-lanterns, a box of popcorn, and the most famous so far--one that looks like a cupcake....

2 popular family cookbooks from Alison and Simon Holst, now combined in one volume! 200+ recipes. Mince & sausages... * Quick and easy one -pan dinners * Sizzling burgers on the barbecue * Spicy curries, chillies and other ethinic treats * And many, many more…  Potatoes...&...

From Sister's Stew to lemon cakes to the seventy-seven course feast for Prince Joffrey, food and its presentation is integral to "A Game of Thrones" and the world of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Now, "A Feast of Ice and Fire" offers readers the chance to cook and sample some ...

Baking is Dean Brettschneider's passion. Trained in New Zealand, he recently opened his own bakery in Shanghai at the prestigious address of Number Three, The Bund. In this, his fourth book, he shares recipes for bread, pastries, cakes and desserts that reflect his broad international experience. Th...

Soul is Auckland's best-known restaurant, and its owner Judith Tabron is one of the country's most high profile and innovative restaurateurs. Big, bustling, slick, the restaurant and bar has the best position on the Viaduct Harbour and is synonymous with chic city dining. It wins awards for its terr...

From a fun monster, cute caterpillar and pretty princess to a fast fighter jet and terrifying shark, gold award winning cake designer, Lindy Smith has created an amazing collection of novelty cakes to thrill and inspire. Each quick and clever cake design includes comprehensive stages of instruction ...

The first half of this book is a user-friendly guide to food intolerances, an explanation of the Low-Fodmap diet and an overview of how to include it in your daily eating plan. Sue Shepherd, who understands that we don't all eat at home all the time, also gives advice on matters such as eating out, ...

The Hummingbird Bakery has brought their mouth-watering yet easy-to-make cupcakes to kitchens everywhere and this time they show readers how to bake delicious cakes and other sweet delights for those days of the year that are just meant for indulgence - such as birthdays, Easter, Valentine's and Chr...

Cheese making is an art and an absorbing pastime. Geared to the hobbyist, this book will turn anyone into a cheese artist. Most of the equipment you need is already in your kitchen, and with investing more patience than cash, your cheeses will far surpass their commercial counterparts in flavor and ...

Now in paperback, "Cake Boss" is the "New York Times" bestselling life story of Buddy Valastro, the star of the hit TLC show, "Cake Boss," and master baker of Carlo's Bake Shop, the Hoboken, New Jersey institution that he runs with the help of his funny and fiery family. Buddy Valastro was born to b...

Babies’ first foods lay the foundations of future eating habits, so a healthy start can establish healthy patterns for a lifetime. Beginning with the first tastes of solid food at around six months old, Feeding Little Tummies includes dozens of healthy, easy recipes that will inspire New Zealand par...

This comprehensive collection of cocktail recipes will be an essential resource for both professional bartenders and the average party host. Want to serve up perfect martinis at your next social gathering? Cosmos for the classy ladies? Sex on the Beach for those who want to sound risqu? A Shirley T...