Best Selling General Cookery Books

You know you're on to something when the queue for a cafe stretches out to the pavement most weekends. So it is at Little and Friday's two Auckland locations. Those in the know flock to the Little and Friday stores in Takapuna and Newmarket for addictive cream-filled donuts, buttery brioche, melt-in...

The Original Edmonds Cookbook is back with a brand new cover and all the same classic recipe's. A New Zealand institution, with over 3 million copies sold to date. The standard cookbook. Edmond's 90-year history began with the very first Edmonds Cookery Book published in 1907 featuring a colle...

Ripe Deli has established a reputation among food lovers for preparing some of the most healthy and flavoursome dishes in town. Now they have put together a collection of their most popular recipes, arranged in seasonal sections, for you to cook at home. Knowing how to cook in season means you will ...

The Best of Annabel Langbein - Great Food for Busy Lives is the essential kitchen handbook for modern living. Annabel is renowned for her down-to-earth, no fuss, delicious recipes that are quick and easy to make. The 600-plus recipes in this book are accessible and innovative and will inspire co...

The Starship Foundation Cookbook with fabulous recipes from top chefs and cooks in the NZ Guild of Food Writers. The focus is on family food that you can make and give to people as gifts. Generosity, home and family are major themes of the book, which is highly appropriate to the Starship Founda...

Whatever your age, the memory lingers of those old-fashioned cakes our mothers and grandmothers made, and there is nothing more irresistible than the delicious aroma and flavour of homemade biscuits and muffins. This book is a nostalgic collection of Granny's tried and tested recipes of your favouri...

Organised by seasons, this is a must-have collection of recipes that will become favourite staples in every household. Covering breakfasts, lunches, nibbles, starters, main meals and desserts there's inspiration for everyone; and Nadia's half Kiwi/half Malaysian heritage means that her food style is...

Fresh! is a culinary journey around New Zealand from award-winning professional chef Peter Blakeway. This is a stunning hardback cookery book with recipes to suit every taste, including a simple potato salad using Otago Jersey Bennes, barbequed Marlborough crayfish, Canterbury lamb shanks,chargr...

Joan Bishop is New Zealand's crockpot and slow cooker doyenne. The proof of that is that over 120,000 copies of her book have been sold to date. Her major 2010 revision of her bestselling book was extremely well received. Now she has revised it again. Why so soon? Because Joan has discovered some...

After the outstanding success of Sizzle by one of New Zealand,s most talented and prolific cooking personalities, we bring you Julie Biuso,s Never-ending Summer. Once more, Julie tempts us back to the barbecue with her sensational recipes. This is contemporary international food at its finest, perfe...

Kiwis love fresh fruit and vegetables, whether it's growing a few herbs, buying produce from farmers' markets and roadside stalls, or tending a vege garden or orchard. But how can we make the most of this seasonal bounty? For A Good Harvest, Rural Women New Zealand members have gathered over 300 tr...

Annabel Langbein is one of New Zealand’s best-loved food writers and the star of her own international TV series Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook. In The Free Range Cook, she showed audiences around the world how easy it is to cook sensational food using fresh seasonal ingredients from ...

Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook is the companion cookbook to the international TV series of the same name. With more than 150 recipes from the TV show, this gorgeous cookbook shares the secrets of Annabel Langbein's free range cooking style and shows how easy it is to put together home-cooked f...

Al Brown explores the connection Kiwis have with their coasts. As he travels our stunning and varied coastline he visits iconic landmarks, meets colourful characters and hears rich tales from past and present. Each chapter covers a different stretch of coast - Red Rocks to Pencarrow (Wellington)...

Good home-baked products are the most delicious, but finding trusted recipes or stimulating ideas is not always easy. Julie Le Clerc knows many home-cooks and professional bakers who are constantly searching for reliable, inexpensive yet innovative recipes. That's why she's keen to share her favouri...

Every great baker has his or her favourite recipes, and so when New Zealand's best foodwriters and chefs were asked for theirs, they came up with a treasure-trove. Designed as a book to treasure and to hand down through the generations, this beautifully packaged hardback includes 100 recipes for...

Niki says cooking for friends and family should not be a chore but fun for everyone - including the cook. She gives mouthwatering dishes for entertaining at home that are simple but flavoursome and fresh. Every recipe photographed. Simple, delicious food to cook and share. That is the philosophy...

I'm going to show you how to put a whole meal on the table in 30 minutes flat!  Not just one dish, a whole spread of beautiful things. If, like me, you love food, and have hungry mouths to feed when you get home after a long day, then allow me to let you in on a totally revolutionary new...

CakeStar by Jade Lipton, the Australian judge of the popular TV show New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker, will help turn enthusiastic home cooks into cake decorating superstars. CakeStar is packed with more than 25 spectacular and show-stopping cakes, cupcakes and biscuits designs that are all achievab...

When Nestle sent out an email invitation asking people to submit their favourite Nestle family memory and recipe, they received more than 2000 enthusiastic responses. This cookbook is a collection of the very best classic recipes from that call-out. It covers everything from dips and snacks to main ...

"Paul has produced some memorable and unusual combinations of ingredients, which are entertaining and delightful to the palate."- Michael Meredith, 2008 Innovative Chef of the Year, Merediths "A Pinch of Salt is a testament to Paul’s hard work and enduring talent as a fine c...

Fishermen and good home cooks alike devoured Go Fish and its winning combination of excellent recipes, great yarns, gorgeous photography, devotion to the stunning NZ coastline and way of life, all with a touch of nostalgia. Now Al Brown applies this same formula to that icon of Kiwi life: the barbec...

Celebrity cook Allyson Gofton gives us her own special take on slow-cooked food, sharing over 180 of her favourite recipes for the slow cooker or crockpot. With chapters on soups, main meals (beef, lamb, pork, chicken and vegetarian) and desserts, Slow is packed with meals your family will enjoy all...

These 80 recipes, with photographs by Kieran Scott, first appeared in the Sunday Star-Times, Sunday magazine. They have now been brought together, in the first of a series of books, to feature all your favourites. Ray McVinnie is well known for his writing; as Food Editor of Cuisine magazine and...

This book has favourite recipes for easy days at the bach, from the Beach House Cook Book by Niki Bezzant, featuring simple, relaxed food for sharing with friends and family all year round.

Robyn Martin's hugely popular first slow cooker book. No-fuss recipes for crockpots and slow cookers, great for busy people. Food for all seasons that you can prepare in the morning and forget until serving time. Robyn's recipes feature soups, chicken, meat, mince and sausages, one...

Bestselling food writer Katie Bishop shows you how easy it is to produce fast, hassle-free meals for all the family. From favourites such as chicken curry and oven-baked risotto, Asian-inspired noodles and stir-fries to mouth-watering desserts, every recipe will delight those looking for good food t...

Kiwis demand Kiwi party cakes - and Rob Burns's inspired and witty designs are Kiwi to the last delicious crumb, featuring easy-to-bake cakes. With scrumptious tips and treats and tantalising tricks of the trade, even the most basic cook will be able to create memorable cakes for memorable occasions...

The PWMU COOKBOOK has sold over 500,000 copies since 1904. This new centenary edition commemorates its hundredth year in print. The PMWU CENTENARY COOKBOOK has all the information that has made the PMWU COOKBOOK so reliable and popular in the past, presented ion an attractive and practical new forma...

This inspiring cookbook is based on the television cooking and travel series 'World Kitchen' in which vivacious foodie Nici Wickes travels the world in search of standout chicken recipes. Her mission takes her from the markets of Barcelona to the local kitchens of Tuscany, the streets of Hanoi, and ...

Many of us can still recall a time when family cake tins contained a delicious variety of home-made biscuits, slices, fruit loaves and cakes baked each week by mothers, aunts and grandmothers. The contents of the tins brightened children's lunches, revived them after school, and refreshed ...

All you need to know about smoking food from renowned New Zealand chef, Chris Fortune. Includes . . . • hot and cold smoking techniques • smoking essentials and pre-smoking processes; including preparation of food • information on the types of smoker you can use, including Kiwi ...

A guide to preparing food using a process which has its origins in the days when preservation of food was not as simple as just throwing it in the fridge. Smoking ensured that foods would last until the next hunting season. By using salt to draw out moisture over a period of days, or even weeks, the...

"Gorgeous and Gruesome Cakes for Children" features 30 fun and original birthday cake designs suitable for both boys and girls alike. With designs by the UK's bestselling sugarcraft modelling author, all the cakes are tasty, easy to create and will be the star of the show at any child's bi...

Food in a Minute, the much-loved and well known New Zealand TV cooking show brings us their most recent cookbook - Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook. With more than 100 recipes, the book is divided into the easy-to-read sections of brunch, lunch and soups; salads and vegetables; mains; slow cookin...

Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it ...

At the beginning of 2005, with the help of the Sunday Star-Times, Edmonds launched the search for new Zealand's favourite recipes. Thousands of responses were received detailing not only their best-loved recipes but also the most missed, as well as wonderful memories that Edmonds recipes evoked. ...

Imagine the surprise and delight evoked by the gift of a cupcake complete with an exquisite topping, to mark a special occasion. It is a moment to treasure. Baking for a celebration is a pleasure in itself. There is the anticipation of choosing the recipe and selecting the most appropriate topping f...

Filled with more than 220 lavishly illustrated recipes, "How to Be a Domestic Goddess" makes cooking and baking as luxurious as it should be, with recipes for cakes, pies, pastries, and breads--sumptuous treats that can all be made at home. Color throughout. Note: US Measurements used

Today's fleet of pressure cookers is safer and more reliable than that of the past. Newly designed and available in sleek stove-top and electric models, these time-saving tools help busy home cooks make such favourites as hearty meat stews and chilli, creamy risotto, homey pot roast and cheesy scall...