Top Bestselling Books Cooking, Food and Drink
Alexander, Stephanie - The Cook's Companion
Batali, Mario - Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home
Bittman, Mark - How to Cook Everything
Bittman, Mark - The Best Recipes in the World
David, Elizabeth - A Book of Mediterranean Food
David, Elizabeth - French Provincial Cooking
Davidson, Alan - The Oxford Companion to Food
Escoffier, Auguste - Escoffier
Granger, Bill - Bill's Food
Granger, Bill - Bill's Open Kitchen
Granger, Bill - Sydney Food
Grossi, Guy - My Italian Heart, Recipes from an Italian Kitchen
Guiliano, Mireille - French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
Hay, Donna - Food Fast
Hopkinson, Simon - Roast Chicken and Other Stories
Ingersoll, Jared - Danks Street Depot
Kenney-Herbert, A. (‘Wyvern’) - Fifty Lunches
Kiros, Tessa - Falling Cloudberries, A World of Recipes
Kwong, Kylie - Heart and Soul
Librarie Larousse - Larousse Gastronomique Recipe Collection
McGee, Harold - McGee on Food and Cooking
Moran, Sean - Let it Simmer
North, Justin - Becasse, Inspirations and Flavours
Jamie Oliver - Jamie's Italy
Pawson, John and Bell, Annie - Living and Eating
Pignolet, Damien - French
Saint-Ange, E. - La Bonne Cuisine
Strang, Jeanne - Goose Fat and Garlic
Wolfert, Paula - The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen
Over 400 Fast, Fabulous and Flavoursome Recipes Using 4 or Fewer Ingredients
By Kim McCosker, Rachael Bermingham

If saving time and money in the kitchen is coupled with a desire to serve up fast, fabulous and flavoursome food, then this book is the cookbook for you. The ladies have teamed up again, after receiving loads of feedback at hundreds of events around Australia.
By Nigella Lawson, Lis Parsons
The Domestic Goddess is back, and this time it's instant. Nigella and her style of cooking have earned a special place in our lives, symbolizing all that is best, most pleasurable, most hands-on, and least fussy about good food. But that doesn't mean she wants us to spend hours in the kitchen, slaving over a hot
stove.
Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious shortcuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining tips, and simple, scrumptious meals, Nigella Express is her solution to eating well when time is short. Here are mouthwatering meals, quick to prepare and easy to follow, that you can conjure up after a day in the office or on a busy weekend, for family or unexpected guests. This is food you can make as you hit the kitchen running, with vital advice on how to keep your pantry stocked, and your freezer and fridge stacked. When time is precious, you canít spend hours shopping, so you need to make life easier by being prepared. Not that these recipes are basic, though they are always simple, but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place, minimizing effort by maximizing taste.
Here too is great food that can be prepared quickly but cooked slowly in the oven, leaving you time to have a bath, a drink, talk to friends, or help the children with their homework, minimum stress for maximum enjoyment.
Nigella Express features a new generation of fast food, never basic, never dull, always doable, quick, and delicious.
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By Michelle Bridges

Customer review on 24/02/2009
Love this book. I am now on to week 4 of the exercises. I love the fact that I can do the exercises at home with very little gym gear as alternatives to equipment are given eg using a towel around a pole to pull yourself inwards working your muscles. I like how the fitness exercises include star jumps and the like - basic things that work. You do need some weights and a fitball but in saying that, you could alter the exercise if you didn't have a fitball. You really do feel like you have had a good workout each day.
I' m a foody so the recipes in the book don't appeal to me. They are very basic but Michelle does say in the book that her recipes are for people in a hurry and that you may wish to use your own. She gives the formula for working out how many calories your body burns each day so you can work out how much you should be eating. This programme is really working for me and I am already getting good comments from people.
By Kim McCosker, Rachael Bermingham

Has over 340 quick, easy and very delicious recipes that can easily whip up a wow your friends and family, and all with only 4 or less ingredients. You won't need to spend a fortune in measuring utensils. To use '4 ingredients' all you will need is 1 cup, 1 teaspoon and 1 tablespoon, it's cooking made real easy!
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By Lisa Lillien
Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries--and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out!
* Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories
* Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories
* Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories
* Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories
* Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories
* Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories
* Rockin' Tuna Melt: 212 calories
* 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories
* I Can't Believe It's Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories
* Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories
* With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make!
And when you're not in your kitchen, check out HG's 10 mini survival guides, plus tips 'n tricks that'll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!
Lose weight and feel great with Pamela Clark's sensational new cookbook, 501 Low Carb Recipes. There are breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks to suit everyone, whether your goal is to lose weight fast, or more slowly, or just to maintain your ideal weight. All the recipes are easy to follow and they're so delicious that you'll want to make them part of a new way of eating.
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Seriously Good! Gluten-free Cooking: In Association with Coeliac UK
By Phil Vickery
Phil Vickery believes that he can revolutionize the notoriously restrictive gluten-free diet. Using his Michelin-starred cooking talents and his nurturing of simple, honest ingredients, Phil has created over 150 recipes that coeliacs have until now only dreamed of. Food to enjoy, food that is nutritious, food that will make you feel good. There are recipes for breakfasts, healthy snacks, light lunches, easy suppers and sophisticated dinners, including Crispy Spiced Pork with Maple Syrup and a Lemon and Leek Risotto. Phil also brings his skills to cakes, puddings and pastries - recipes that are the hardest of all to find if you are following a gluten-free diet. The 30 sweet ideas include Fruit Scones and a great Kids' Birthday Cake.
Destitute Gourmet: Stunning Food from Small Change
By Sophie Gray
In response to a significant drop in family income several years ago, Sophie Gray was forced to reconsider her grocery budget. She needed to feed two fussy children and satisfy two foodie adults who liked to entertain friends.
She became aware of the increasing dependence of domestic cooks on pre-prepared ready-made products and realised that basic cooking skills were being forgotten. Sophie became the destitute gourmet. Destitute Gourmet echoes current cooking trends and also aims to encourage home cooks to innovate and improvise. What do you really need in your pantry? What can you easily do without? How can you create gourmet meals to impress your family and friends and not have to live on bread and water for the next week? This book is for everyone who wants to spend less on groceries and still enjoy tasty, fashionable and healthy food.
In this lively, illustrated overview, well-known raw-foods guru Wolfe profiles delicious and incredibly nutritious superfoods--vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that offer tremendous dietary and healing potential.
By David Wolfe
Superfoods comprise a specific set of edible, incredibly nutritious plants that cannot be entirely classified as foods or medicines, because they combine positive aspects of both. The scientific evidence in this book outlines the discovery that superfoods are an essential part of a balanced diet and allow us to get more nutrition with less eating. Most of us have had the experience of eating all day just to keep our blood sugar up while receiving very little nourishment in the process. We also know that most of the conventional foods and fast foods today are nothing but empty calories. Because the nutrients in conventional foods are commonly depleted through processing, we must turn to new possibilities for whole and balanced nutrition.Superfoods represent a uniquely promising piece of the nutrition puzzle, as they are great sources of clean protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, good fats and oils, essential fatty and amino acids, and other nutrients. This new overview by bestselling raw food expert David Wolfe gives detailed information on nutritive, sustainable, and delicious superfoods such as goji berries, cacao beans (raw chocolate), maca, spirulina, bee products, hemp seed, and a host of others, along with recipes and suggestions for integrating these magical new foods into a transformative diet and lifestyle.
This book provides simple, wholesome and nutritious recipes for family meals; quick lunches, tasty puddings and cakes - and you don't have to spend hours slaving over a hot stove, or spend a fortune at the supermarket.There are menu plans, recipes, shortcuts and dozens of ideas for every meal, together with tried and tested tips to help you save your valuable time and money.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Wake up to breakfast; 2. Little gems and tough cookies; 3. Make dinnfer, not excuses; 4. Quick fixes; 5. The joy of soup; 6. Join the pudding club; 7. Can't cook? don't cook!; 8. Let them eat cake; 9. Not only but also; 10. Weekly menu planning.
It is no exaggeration to say that The Country Women's Association Cookbook is an Australian icon. Absolutely packed with hard-working, practical recipes, this has been an essential cookbook in Australian kitchens for generations. First published over seventy years ago, Murdoch Books are now very proud to be publishing the 17th edition, the first metric edition of this classic collection.
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