Food and Drink

ISBN: 9780714875835
Title: VIETNAMESE CUISINE : From Elizabeth Street Cafe
Author: MOORMAN TOM
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

French-inspired Vietnamese cooking from the cultural hub of Austin, Texas – recommended by everyone from locals to Bon Appetit to The New York Times to goop.


Elizabeth Street Café – a celebrated eatery with a devoted following – features French-inspired Vietnamese cooking. Chefs Tom Moorman and Larry McGuire share 100 recipes of beautiful and delicious Vietnamese fare and French baked goods – from Spicy Breakfast Fried Rice and Eggs to Green Jungle Curry Noodles, and Palm Sugar Ice Cream to Toasted Coconut Cream Puffs. The café is always bustling, day and night, inside and outdoors, and it is one of the most photographed restaurants in Austin, Texas.

Imprint: PHAIDON
RRP: $59.99

ISBN: 9781743795323
Title: VIGNETTE : Stories of Life and Wine in 100 Bottles
Author: LOPES JANE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Sometimes we just want someone to hand us a bottle of wine. Sometimes we want to learn more about that wine. And sometimes we want to feel something about wine.

In Vignette, sommelier Jane Lopes recommends the 100 bottles of wine (and some spirits and beers) to best expand your wine journey, giving you a complete palate education of the important styles, grapes, regions, and flavours of this magical and ever-growing world. Alongside that, you will find imaginative ways to engage with the foundational wine knowledge that underpins a good drinking experience. And then there is Jane’s own narrative – the stories of triumph and defeat that comprise her life in wine. It's part memoir and part wine book, but a lot more fun than either alone.

These are wines to live with, learn from and take solace in – a joyous, surprising, and revelatory response to that age-old question, "What should I drink?”

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $40.00

ISBN: 9781760554583
Title: VILLAGE
Author: PURBRICK MATT
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

In The Village, Matt and Lentil from Grown & Gathered focus on the life-giving value of cooking and eating with your village - whether made up of family or friends.

Wholesome staples, like Kombucha and Sourdough flatbreads. Pickles and preserves, like Pear, lemon and chilli jam and Zucchini pickles. Delicious meals including Honey onion, buckwheat and lentil salad, Nonna's leek and spinach fritters, and Pan-fried gnocchi, pea and ricotta salad. Desserts like Baked plums, sage and warm cheese, and Raw chocolate and espresso bowls.

A comprehensive chapter with practical advice on setting up a natural garden to feed your village will help you get the basics right: the importance of soil and sun, garden design, planting guides and projects, and natural pest control. The Village is about nurturing and being nurtured, by growing, cooking and eating together - whether it's dropping a loaf of bread around to a neighbour, or spending an afternoon making a big batch of pickles with your mates. It is about food, but beyond food. It is for everyone who wants to embrace the fullness of life in all its mess, for everyone who wants to connect. Because we all deserve it.

Imprint: PLUM
RRP: $45.00

ISBN: 9781911595731
Title: WHISKY CLASSIFIED : Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
Author: WISHART DAVID
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

This book on single malt whisky makes an excellent guide for all whisky drinkers, from the novice to the connoisseur.

Single malt whisky is the fastest expanding sector of the booming whisky market. Over half of Scotland's whisky distilleries are open to visitors and visitor numbers reached record numbers of over 1.7 million in 2016.

Whisky Classified has revolutionized our appreciation of single malt whisky. David Wishart cuts through the confusing jargon often used to describe single malts and replaces it with an objective and easily applied guide to taste using his easy to understand system of flavour profiles. He identifies twelve dimensions to the aroma and taste of a single malt whisky: body, sweetness, smoky, medicinal, tobacco, honey, spicy, winey, nutty, malty, fruity, floral.

In this fully revised and updated edition, David Wishart has included all new UK and Irish producers of single malt whisky. The author has also updated the taste profiles for each selected malt to ensure that this book remains the definitive guide to tasting malt whisky. Each entry includes a short description of the distillery, information for visitors, the author's own tasting notes and his flavour profiles according to this innovative classification. The history of whisky-making and production methods are clearly explained, and the author also explains how to organize a whisky tasting.

Imprint: PAVILLION
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781784725488
Title: WHISKY DICTIONARY
Author: WISNIEWSKI IAN
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

This is the drinker's guide to every aspect of whisky, from Scotch to Japanese, rye to bourbon and beyond. With hundreds of entries covering everything from history, ingredients and distilling techniques to flavour notes, cocktails and the many varieties of whisky from all around the world, renowned whisky expert Ian Wisniewski explores and unlocks the wonderful world of a drink like no other.

Entries include...

Ageing Process

Bourbon

Craft Movement

Fermentation

Flavour Compounds

Irish Whiskey

Japanese Whiskey

Master Distiller

Old Fashioned

Organic Whisky

Prohibition

Tasting Techniques

Wine Casks

...and many more.

Imprint: HACHETTE
RRP: $27.99

ISBN: 9781743795538
Title: WHOLE FISH COOKBOOK
Author: NILAND JOSH
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

We all want to eat more fish, but who wants to bother spending the time, effort and money cooking that same old salmon fillet on repeat when you could be trying something new and utterly delicious?

In The Whole Fish Cookbook, Sydney’s groundbreaking seafood chef Josh Niland reveals a completely new way to think about all aspects of fish cookery. From sourcing and butchering to dry ageing and curing, it challenges everything we thought we knew about the subject and invites readers to see fish for what it really is – an amazing, complex source of protein that can, and should, be treated with exactly the same nose-to-tail reverence as meat.

Featuring more than 60 recipes for dozens of fish species ranging from Cod Liver Pate on Toast, Fish Cassoulet and Roast Fish Bone Marrow to – essentially – the Perfect Fish and Chips, The Whole Fish Cookbook will soon have readers seeing that there is so much more to a fish than just the fillet and that there are more than just a handful of fish in the sea.

Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $55.00

ISBN: 9780061288586
Title: WIDOW CLICQUOT : THE STORY OF A CHAMPAGNE EMPIRE AND THE WOMAN WHO RULED IT
Author: MAZZEO TILAR J
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

the New York Times bestselling story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, became a legend in her tumultuous times, and showed the world how to live with style.

Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow-the "Veuve"-Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune?
THE WIDOW CLICQUOT brings to life the woman behind the label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin (1777-1866), a daring and determined entrepreneur who, during the tumultuous years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, became one of the richest women of her time, singlehandedly founding a champagne house that remains a distinguished name. Newly widowed, she assumed the reins of the fledgling wine business she and her husband started, steering it through huge political and financial reversals to succeed as a single woman in a man's world. Visitors flocked to see this cultural icon and taste the vintages she imbued with magic. Her winemaking inventions and experiments changed the history of champagne.

As much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered woman, THE WIDOW CLICQUOT is a read to savor.

Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
RRP: $26.99

ISBN: 9781452171340
Title: WINE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE
Author: SCHNEIDER ELIZABETH
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

This is a friendly, non-intimidating but substantial introductory wine book from the creator of the award-winning podcast Wine For Normal People that explores the basics of wine, including tasting, regions, wine-making, etiquette, and buying.

Imprint: CHRONICLE
RRP: $45.00

ISBN: 9781787135000
Title: WINGS AND THINGS : Lip-smacking chicken recipes
Author: FORD BEN
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: April 2020 New Release

From the award-winning and fried-chicken obsessed duo behind Wingmans, chef Ben Ford and David Turofsky, comes Wings and Things, a book that celebrates the glorious bird with some of the most mouth-watering, saucy, internationally inspired variations on classic wings.

Recipes to savour include moreish favourites such as their multi-award-winning Buffalo Hot Sauce, Korean 'Seoulja' Boi Wingswith fermented black bean, pineapple, and black sesame, Jamaican'Me Crazy Wings made firey with Scotch bonnet chillies, and the 'Szech-One'coated in five spice and Szechuan salt.

Other chapters offer ways to make use of the other parts of a chicken so as to avoid waste – you'll find 24-hour Tea-brined Whole Chicken, and recipes using the thighs and drumsticks. Ben and David also show how easy it is to use wing tips and other bones to make the best possible chicken stock, and chicken skin to make incredible Crack Crumb – a salty, irresistible topping made from crisped-up skin.

You'll also find recipes to complete your chicken feast including sides, sharing plates, burgers, drinks and unbelievable desserts.

Spread your wings and master the art of cooking chicken wings to perfection!

Imprint: QUADRILLE
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9781784724030
Title: WORLD ATLAS OF WINE - 8th Edition
Author: JOHNSON HUGH / ROBINSON JANCIS
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Few wine books can be called classic, but the first edition of THE WORLD ATLAS OF WINE made publishing history when it appeared in 1971. It is recognized by critics as the essential and most authoritative wine reference work available. This eighth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the world of wine.

To reflect all the changes in the global wine scene over the past six years, the Atlas has grown in size to 416 pages and 22 new maps have been added to the wealth of superb cartography in the book. The text has been given a complete overhaul to address the topics of most vital interest to today's wine-growers and drinkers.

With beautiful photography throughout, Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, the world's most respected wine-writing duo, have once again joined forces to create a classic that no wine lover can afford to be without.

"THE WORLD ATLAS OF WINE is the single most important reference book on the shelf of any wine student." - Eric Asimov, New York Times

"The most useful single volume on wine ever published... If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one." - Andrew Jefford, Decanter

"Like a good bottle of wine, you'll find yourself going back to it again and again... Perfect for anyone who has a thirst for greater wine knowledge." - Edward Deitch, NBC/today.com

"THE WORLD ATLAS OF WINE belongs on your shelf... The essential rootstock of any true wine lover's library. A multi-layered snapshot of wine and how it has evolved." - Dave McIntyre, Washington Post

Imprint: MITCHELL BEAZLEY
RRP: $85.00

ISBN: 9781911624639
Title: WORLD OF WHISKY : Taste, Try And Enjoy Whiskies From Around The World
Author: RIDLEY NEIL / SMITH GAVIN D /WISHART DAVID
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Whisky is the world's favourite spirit and is enjoying booming sales, yet too often it's shrouded in mystery, myth and complex-sounding terminology. This authoritative book, written by three world experts, gives simple advice on how to seek out and enjoy the immense diversity of flavours and styles on offer, and how to become more adventurous.As with any subject, the more you know, the more you can appreciate and enjoy it. This book aims to equip you with enough knowledge to be able to find your way around the whisky sections of a specialist drinks retailer and to help you feel confident choosing whisky in a bar or restaurant. We aim to demystify whisky without taking away the magic. The history of whisky and production methods are clearly explained, and there is advice on how to nose, taste and savour, how to organise a whisky tasting, as well as a selection of classic whisky cocktails and advice on matching food and whisky.The book covers not just famous Highland malts, Irish pot still whiskeys and American bourbons, but also whiskies from South East Asia, Japan and Canada.

Imprint: PAVILION PUBLISHING [UK]
RRP: $59.99

ISBN: 9781760784362
Title: YEAR OF SIMPLE FAMILY FOOD
Author: BUSUTTIL NISHIMURA JULIA
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: May 2020 New Release

Family food is generous, unfussy and demonstrates love and care. No matter what busyness the day brings, the act of setting the table and enjoying a simple meal together is comforting and ever-reassuring.

Eating simply and seasonally is at the core of Julia Busuttil Nishimura's recipes.

Whether it's a cooling coffee granita to start a summer's day or the comfort of a hearty baked maccheroni in darkest winter, this is the kind of food you will want to share with your loved ones throughout the year.

The dishes in this book are brought to life by great ingredients. There are plenty of quick recipes and some that require more time to bubble away on the stove. Overall, they are linked by taste and pleasure, and making the most of seasonal produce. This is generous, delicious food that the whole family will love, all year round.

Recipes include:

Summer
- Crepes with whipped ricotta
- Slow-roasted tomatoes with mint and mozzarella
- Spaghetti with fennel and prawns
- Apricot and berry galette

Autumn
- Granola with poached plums
- Spiced split lentil soup with fried eggplant
- Miso roast chicken
- Blackberry and apple pudding

Winter
- Congee
- Lentil and maple-roasted carrot salad
- Japanese braised pork
- Dark chocolate, walnut and oat cookies

Spring
- Tokyo-style French toast
- Silverbeet and ricotta malfatti with brown butter sauce
- Lamb and green bean stew
- Simple butter cake with raspberries

Imprint: PLUM
RRP: $39.99