2022 has been a HUGE year for cookbooks – for Kiwi Author's and abroad – so we thought we would compile a handy list of the Top 10 cookbooks from this year, which a foodie in your life is guaranteed to love when found under the tree!

Top 10 cookbooks for gifting (in no particular order!)

RecipeTin Eats: Dinner

150 recipes from Australia’s most popular cook.
Through her online food site, RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi talks to millions of people a year who tell her about the food they love. Now, in her first cookbook, Nagi brings us the ultimate curation of new and favourite RecipeTin Eats recipes – from comfort food, to fast and easy food for weeknights, Mexican favourites, hearty dinner salads, Asian soups and noodles, and special treats for festive occasions. Featuring a photo and how-to video for every recipe, readily available ingredients, Nagi's famously helpful notes, and Dozer, Australia's best-loved food tester, this is a kitchen-shelf must have for the novice cook, the expert, and everyone in between.

Whānaukai Signed Copies

Feel-good baking to share aroha and feed hungry tummies.
Baking should be a simple pleasure, and celebrated baker Naomi Toilalo shares more than 70 of her tohutao reka – delicious recipes, all made without fancy equipment or hard-to-find ingredients. Bursting with bold flavours, this cheekily indulgent cookbook shows you how to make amazing sweet treats to create memories and celebrate life with the people you love.Featuring breads, slices, biscuits, cakes and pastries, Whānaukai is a window into the whakapapa that inspired Naomi's passion for baking, where feeding people has been part of her life for as long as she can remember.

I Love My Stupid Life Signed Copies

Eat Lit Food And Other Tasty Exploits.
Part recipe book, part backstory to @eatlitfood, part unapologetically sweary guide to eating and drinking and savoir vivre, I Love My Stupid Life is – above all – a powerfully candid and moving memoir from one of the most inimitable, unapologetic voices of our time. As a strong believer that food should always be shared, Albert includes recipes – his own, his mum’s and his friends’ – some of them New Zealand’s leading chefs. Inside you’ll find home baking Kiwi treats like melting moments and chocolate cake, traditional Korean classics, easy snacks and other hacks, Albert’s favourite restaurant and street food dishes, the meat pie that broke the internet, and more.

Pic's Really Good Recipe Book

Inspiring peanut butter recipes plus everything you might want to know about your favourite spread and the characters behind the much-loved Pic's brand.
As well as giving a fabulous range of tasty peanut butter recipes, both sweet and savoury, this book tells stories about how the brand got started. From the early days, when Bruce ‘Pic’ Picot made his own peanut butter in an adapted concrete mixer and sold it at a local market, to the opening of Pic's Peanut Butter World in Stoke, near Nelson, there are many hilarious tales to be told. Read the story of Fido, Pic's seeing-eye dog; find out how to make your own peanut butter or even how to grow your own peanuts – and see if you can answer the questions in the Pic's quiz!

Together

Food for Sharing.
There's nothing Cherie Metcalfe likes more than bringing people together with good food. The trained chef and creator of Pepper & Me products believes that sharing food with those you love is one of the easiest shortcuts to happiness. With more than 70 beautifully photographed recipes, there are dishes for everyone – from sides and salads to bigger plates and sweet delights – no products required. This is flavour-packed food at its best, with an inspirational twist on the classics we all love. These are recipes you'll want to cook again and again. So get together, celebrate, and share the love with family and friends.

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things

Ottolenghify every meal.
Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam are back, with flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something to the next meal. It's harissa butter on a roasted mushroom, then tossed with steamed veg or stuffed into a baked potato. It's tamarind dressing on turmeric fried eggs, then drizzled over a steak the next day. Extra Good Things is rounded off with a chapter on the ‘one basics’ of desserts for you to perfect and then adapt with your favourite flavour combinations, such as ‘one basic mousse’ transformed into coffee mousse with tahini fudge.

Kai

Food Stories and Recipes from my Family Table.
The gathering of food and the gathering of people to share a meal are at the heart of Maori family life. Food photographer Christall Lowe invites us to join her whanau table and experience for ourselves an abundance of mouthwatering dishes, a veritable feast for the eyes and for the stomach. Kai is a passionate homage to a life deeply rooted in food, where exquisite flavours weave seamlessly with cherished food memories. It is impossible not to open the pages of this book and be inspired by the beautifully captured recipes, and compelled to recreate the deliciousness of Kai in your own kitchen.

Miss Polly's Kitchen

Delivering seriously delicious food, ideally suited to the way we eat today.
Polly Markus – from the popular Instagram page Miss Polly's Kitchen – loves food almost as much as she loves people. Her recipes are light, fresh, super colourful and hugely enticing. Miss Polly's Kitchen is packed with bold and unique flavours and clever takes on classic dishes. Whether you are after something fresh and new, or you're entertaining friends and family, Miss Polly's Kitchen has the perfect recipe for any occasion. Polly has only a few rules when it comes to cooking: 1. It has to be a good time. If you're not having fun, it's time to put down the pans. 2. Always make enough to have leftovers. 3. Flavour, flavour, flavour.

The Fast Five

The ultimate bible of fast, delicious recipes for busy families.
The Fast Five is all about taking your favourite recipes and reimagining them in faster, more delicious ways. All-time classics and old stand-bys are reinvented with midweek twists which focus on cutting down time and upgrading flavour. Weekly go-tos are given a new lease on life, as Donna takes tried-and-tested recipes and gives them a fresh new twist. Whether you're looking for ways to improve on your favourites or for a total kitchen refresh, The Fast Five will bring you new fast new fabulous flavour combinations – all done without ever straying from your repertoire of go-tos.

One

Simple One-Pan Wonders.
Quick and easy meals are even simpler when you cook with just one pot, pan or tray. And with each recipe using eight ingredients or fewer, requiring minimal prep (and washing up), they offer maximum convenience. ONE is packed with budget-friendly dishes you can rustle up any time- delicious work from home lunches, quick dinners the whole family will love, meals to get novice cooks started. With over 100 recipes that'll teach you simple one-pan techniques there are plenty of no-fuss, tasty recipes that make this a must-have for every kitchen.

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