Are you a cooking enthusiast? Do you like to travel the world through food? Then you need to grab a copy of the below cookbooks and get busy! From books that heal your gut to street food that will have your mouth watering, this recommendations is your first class flight to travelling the world through food!
Kitchen Essentials for March
The Beauty Chef Gut Guide: 90+ FODMAP-friendly Recipes and Weekly Meal Plans to Heal from the Inside Out
9781761451157 | Hardie Grant Books | HB
Carla Oates
The Beauty Chef Gut Guide is the practical companion to Carla Oates’ acclaimed book, The Beauty Chef. It is a compelling resource for people who want to better understand the science underpinning the link between gut and skin health. The 8-week program includes information on the importance of gut functionality, weekly meal plans for repairing and reprogramming your gut, and more than 90 recipes.
In addition to recipes and information about repairing your gut, it covers broader advice for wellbeing, from the importance of cleaning products to mindfulness and yoga. It is photographed and designed in the distinct style established by the The Beauty Chef cookbook.
Recipes – across breakfast, lunch and dinner – include: Coconut Crêpes; Chicken, Flaked Almond & Sage Buckwheat Risotto; Lemongrass & Kaffir Lime Salmon Cakes; Panfried Cauliflower Gnocchi; Swedish Meatballs; Tamarind Fish Curry; and Vanilla & Cardamom Chia Puddings.
Coming March 2025
Donuts: Make your own at home
9781923049772 | Smith Street Books | HB
Sandra Mahut
The ultimate book of donuts!
Learn how to perfect the beloved donut at home with Donuts. This delicious, colourful book features 21 donut recipes, from classic sugar-glazed, chocolate, and sugar and cinnamon, to strawberry and white chocolate, marshmallow and sprinkles, and apple crumble.
With a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to making your own dough, easy-to-follow recipes for all the flavours imaginable, plus all the basics, this book will leave you never wanting store-bought donuts ever again!
Dumplings: Make your own at home
9781923049789 | Smith Street Books | HB
La Taverne De Zhao
The ultimate book of dumplings!
Learn how to perfect the beloved dumpling at home with Dumplings. This delicious, colourful book features 21 dumpling recipes, from pork and cabbage, crystal prawn, and cabbage and tofu, to four-flavour, golden fish, and nanjing.
With a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to making your own dumpling wrappers, easy-to-follow recipes for all the flavours imaginable, plus all the basics, this book will leave you never wanting store-bought dumplings ever again!
Coming March 2025
The Beauty Chef: 150 Gluten- and Dairy-Free Recipes for Radiant Skin, Gut Health and Wellbeing
9781761451140 | Hardie Grant Books | HB
Carla Oates
In The Beauty Chef Carla Oates, founder of the natural beauty company of the same name, combines the joy of cooking with the science of nutrition, offering you radiant skin and robust health
More than 150 delicious and nutritious recipes that are gluten-free and mostly dairy-free recipes will feed both your skin and your gut. Glamorous it may not be, but a well-balanced gut bacteria can be the answer to glowing health and beauty. With every meal you eat, be it breakfast, dinner or a tempting dessert, you will feel and look better inside and out.
Beauty is more than skin-deep; it comes from within – from the gut, to be precise.
Coming March 2025
Middle Eastern Feasts: Modern classics from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea
9781761500398 | Murdoch Books | HB
Michael Rantissi & Kristy Frawley
From Mediterranean-inspired salads to mezzes from across the Arabian Peninsula, welcome to this collection of over 90 classic recipes from Michael Rantissi that are readymade for feasting.
From abundant brunches to weeknight dinners and long weekend lunches, Middle Eastern Feasts is a fully photographed, gorgeous hardback celebrating food for sharing with loved ones. Enjoy everything from the perfect Hummus to Lamb keftas, or a Cauliflower, tahini and zhoug salad, as well as grilled prawns, whole baked fish, and an 8-hour lamb shoulder along with banquet ideas and a range of breads, dips and desserts. This fully photographed hardback takes the very best from the renowned neighbourhood bistro Kepos Street Kitchen and makes it ready for you to share at home.
China: The Cookbook
9781838669225 | Phaidon Press | HB
Kei Lum Chan & Diora Fong Chan
The definitive cookbook bible of the world’s most popular and oldest cuisine
Now available with a new lush red cover with gilt edging,China: The Cookbook presents more than 650 recipes for delicious and authentic Chinese dishes for the home kitchen, meticulously collected by two of the country’s bestselling cookbook writers.
From popular staples such as Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and Dim Sum, to lesser-known regional classics including Fujian Fried Rice and Jiangsu’s Drunken Chicken, this authoritative book showcases the culinary diversity of the world’s richest and oldest cuisines with recipes from the eight major regions and twelve minor regions and additional selected recipes from star chefs from around the world.
Coming March 2025
India Local: Classic Street Food Recipes
9789392130427 | Roli Books | HB
Sonel Ved
India Local is a cross-country culinary adventure complemented by mouth-watering photographs – an invaluable source for chefs and home cooks who wish to recreate the flavours Indian streets in their own kitchens.
Texture, colour, flavour – the essence of India itself, intertwine and explode in this stunning cookbook. Celebrating the patent versatility and abundance of Indian cuisine, India Local focuses on India’s street foods and chaats. It tells the story of a nation through its street offerings, from the bustling lanes of old Delhi and the alleyways of Lucknow to the swarming bylanes of Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The author takes you on a cross-country culinary adventure through the vibrant gullies of Surat to the hilly thoroughfares of Darjeeling, exploring along the way the kitchens-on-wheels from Jaipur to Gangtok all the way down to the hectic curbsides of Chennai.
Ved’s glamorous yet approachable recipes meet Karam Puri’s street-style photography, and together they guide you through the best chaats and street food in India. Pick from usuals like pani puri and vada pav, to special snacks by India’s most innovative minds: hello, tawa paneer chaat and jinni dosa. The book has recipes generously shared by Ved’s chef friends and those promise to be as creative as they are satisfying. Besides, there are housemade specialities like the inviting papdi ‘lasagne’, barley-couscous tikki with raw mango cream, 8-layers dhokla chaat and more.
Want to eat like a local? This book is for you.
Coming March 2025
