Review: Bourke Street Bakery All Things Sweet by Paul Allam and David McGuinness

October 17, 2017 | Bourke Street Bakery All Things Sweet is published by Murdoch books and is available now. RRP $55

This very attractive hardcover book has quickly become a favourite go-to for something delicious in our kitchen. I’ve been cooking non-stop from it for the last few weeks, with every recipe working out pretty much exactly as it should, and looking (almost exactly) like the photographs. A fe...

Review: Junk Food Japan by Scott Hallsworth

May 6, 2017 | Junk food Japan (Addictive Food from Kurobuta) is available now. RRP $52.99

If you love Japanese food and are looking for something a little bit different, this is the book for you. JUNK FOOD JAPAN is a cracking cookbook by Scott Hallsworth. It's filled with recipes that offer trendy incarnations of flavours you love in Japanese cooking, with presentation and photograph...

Review: The Cookbook Roundup!

September 28, 2016 | Reviews of various cookbooks (from a variety of publishers), available now from any good bookseller.

It is no secret to the people who know me that I love to cook. We eat hardly any takeaway food and not a lot of processed snacks. I’m not a chef, nutritionist, personal trainer, food blogger or an aspiring Masterchef contestant. I don’t follow any particular eating plan. I’m an ordinary pe...

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