MasterChef Australia finalist Chris Badenoch brings us a book that encourages cooking with the ‘entire beast’. Combining his love of beer and meat in his book Entire Beast: From Ear and Beer to Ale and Tail from Penguin Books Australia, Badenoch teaches us to go beyond conventional cooking. Reinventing the way we cook and eat, this book is a must-have for any chef.

$39

Make a sweet addition to your book collection with Alison Thompson's Bake: Essential Companion from Penguin Books Australia . The master baker now-turned-author reveals her wealth of pastry chef knowledge through the insightful culinary collection. Alison Thompson's personal favourites, from ciabatta to choc-orange ravioli, are all encased in a contemporary black and baby pink cover. The book of boulangerie bliss is even Coeliac-friendly with a gluten-free section to cater to everybody's sweet tooth.

$49

Renowned Australian chef, restauranteur, author and teacher, Damien Pignolet, imparts over 40 years of knowledge and experience in this clear and cleverly written guide to the world of salads. For those of us who believe a salad consists of a few green leaves covered in vinegar, Salades from Penguin Books Australia is a complete culinary re-education. Appetisers, main meals and special occasion salads each feature prominently in their own dedicated chapter, and they’re definitely not alone in this essential omnibus. Inspired by his French heritage, Pignolet embraces the continental notion of what a salad should be. With vibrant full-colour photography, passionately detailed notes, and invaluable descriptions of flavours and textures, Damien Pignolet helps you to create the most impressive and satisfying salads for your table.

$59

Make a sweet addition to your book collection with Belinda Jeffery's Mix & Bake from Penguin Books Australia. The celebrated chef shares her all-time favourite recipes within the delicious culinary collection. The book of boulangerie bliss is encased in the image of rich chocolate contrasting against a classic ivory to showcase the variety of tasty cakes, breads and tarts.

$39

Celebrate scrumptious pesto sauces, gnocchi and all that defines Italian soul food with Mangia! Mangia! by Teresa Oates and Angela Villella from Penguin Books Australia. Embrace home-style southern Italian traditional food with recipes that have made their way through generations into this instructive cookbook. Each recipe is born and bred from the spirit of Italia, share the culture with a hearty warm meal for your beloved familia.

$39

One of Australia’s most respected food families hands you down the recipe to cook and shop cheap without compromising on taste and goodness. Join Suzanne Gibbs and her daughter Kate Gibbs, as they share their delectable family meals and multiple tips for saving time, money and waste in the kitchen.

$49

From the heart of Maggie Beer’s own kitchen comes a mouthwatering collection of recipes to set stomachs rumbling in your household. The pages are infused with Maggie’s trademark warmth and wise discoveries that have made her a favourite for Australian cooks over the years. She brings a no-fuss approach to getting the most out of your ingredients to ensure every dish is delicious. Bring back the pleasures of cooking to your chef’s corner with Maggie’s Kitchen.

$59

Following her passion for fresh seasonal produce in the Barossa Valley South Australia, together with 350 of her most-loved recipes, Maggie Bear shares her secrets to cooking with Maggie’s Harvest. Typically a country cook, Maggie tells the tales of some memorable entertaining moments with family and friends, while appreciating the art of sharing food with those you love. Her ethos begins with using recipes to get those creative juices flowing, but using your instincts to guide you to culinary perfection.

$125

Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion will encourage anyone to get their hands dirty in the garden. Featuring instructions on how to grow fresh produce no matter what your garden space situation is, the book is perfect for the eager kitchen gardener. With over 250 recipes, Alexander shows us how to turn our home-grown food into delightful meals. Rewarding and inspirational, this book is a kitchen must-have.

$125

Over 178 pages, Alexa Johnston brings to life the familiar, and favourite, recipes of our mothers, aunts and grandmothers. Ladies, A plate: Traditional Home Baking captures a time when these talented women whipped up a tasty treat with the simple note included on an invite ‘Ladies, A Plate’. Be inspired by the cream-filled sponges, ginger kisses, custard squares, club sandwiches and more included in the book with recipes perfected over time by home bakers.

$35

Acclaimed kitchen gardener and avid writer, Kate Herd, brings a surfeit of knowledge, passion and inspiration to the table with her first book, Kitchen Gardens of Australia: Eighteen Productive Gardens for Inspiration and Advice. After travelling around the country, Herd has brought together information and ideas from eighteen of her favourite edible gardens in Australia, accompanied by vivid photography from Simon Griffiths. Homey illustrations add to the quaint country feel, while tips and tricks on irrigation techniques, organic pest control and overall sustainability make the book as practical as a kitchen garden itself.

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Featuring the tales, seasonal recipes and splendid photography from her adventure, At My French Table recounts how restoring the residence to its former glory gave Jane the opportunity to fulfil her lifelong dream of establishing a French cooking school. With an abundance of produce and the advice of local traiteurs and chefs, Jane brings French cooking to life on her table.

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Make cooking a family affair with ‘Cook It Together’ by Annabel Karmel. The innovative publication is all about taking 10 of your kid’s favourite foods and using them to create delicious results. With explanations and background information on each food, the insightful cookbook encourages children to learn while they cook. The easy-to-follow recipes and vibrant pages combine to make a fun and interesting publication, and will be enjoyed by kids and parents alike.

$16

Get your kids hands-on in the kitchen with this full-spectrum culinary how-to by food guru Annabel Karmel. Whipping, dicing, sifting and slicing, your child will relish in the opportunity to learn these key cooking techniques. Over 60 scrumptious recipes – from pancakes to risotto – will have your pint-sized gastronome cooking up a storm of easy and healthy meals the whole family are bound to love.

$24

Don’t let your personal food intolerances spoil your appetite. Dr Sue Shepherd and Dr Peter Gibson, world authorities in their field, bring you the Food Intolerance Management Plan. Featuring expert advice on menu plans, foods to avoid, and conditions including lactose and wheat intolerance, let this book help you to identify and avoid sticky situations.

$35

Performance in any arena of the human body is determined by quality eating. Experience a better lifestyle with the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Recipe Book from Penguin Books. Offering healthier alternatives to maintaining calorie levels, share this wealth of information with your friends and folks. Place more attention on your body and increase longevity.

$35

If you’re finding it hard to lose that last bit of weight - don’t fret! Losing the Last 5 Kilos by Michelle Bridges from Penguin Books will help you complete a 30 day journey where you’ll reach a state of total confidence and great health. It features daily planners, healthy low calorie recipes, step-by-step exercise routines with photographs to show you how to do them. With boundless experience in the field of personal training, the Biggest Loser trainer has compiled the core essentials in this must-have package.

$29

Take responsibility now, and watch what you eat with the Crunchtime Cookbook by Michelle Bridges. Bringing a vast amount of experience from her personal training experience, and achieving celebrity status from shows like The Biggest Loser, Michelle Bridges has compiled a delicious selection of recipes that will help you look and feel good. Featuring mouth-watering low calorie alternatives, valuable tips, exercise plans and food advice, the book is beneficial for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle.

$34

Watch the waist line and maintain a healthier lifestyle with Michelle Bridges’ Crunch Time Cookbook: Lose weight and keep it off from Penguin Books. Stay healthy, eat healthy and maintain. Michelle Bridges brings a vast amount of knowledge from her experience as a personal trainer on shows such as the Biggest Loser and offers a healthier alternative. Featuring a weekly guides, motivational advice and valuable exercise tips, this is books is beneficial to anyone seeking change.

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From a time when anything from tree bark to packing twine could be pressed into service as building material, the shack has long been an Aussie icon. In his 2010 book, Griffiths’ pays tribute to this humblest of homes, searching out ramshackle beach houses, outback lean-tos and backyard barns that embody the Australian “no worries” mentality. As the author himself says, “Shacks make people happy”, and Simon Griffiths’ photographic homage to shacks is sure to do the same for you.

$39

Beauty guru Zoë Foster pads out her new book with the long-awaited answers to all your essential styling questions. Formerly of Harper’s BAZAAR and Cosmopolitan, Foster equips you with the premier makeup brands, colours and looks, easy-do hair styles and skin care tips for every age, ensuring you’ll be permanently primped for every occasion.

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In response to the enthusiastic reception for her Ladies, a Plate, Alexa Johnston has gathered another tempting selection of traditional home-baking recipes. This collection has many more old favourites, like Sponge Kisses, Melting Moments and Cream Lilies, as well as a few savoury treats. Alexa has also included a chapter on home-made sweets so that readers will be able to stock the sweet stall at the school fair with Hokey Pokey, Ginger Ice and the very best Russian Fudge.

$39.95

Tickle your tastebuds with delicious French treats with [The Art of French Baking] by [Ginette Mathiot] from [Penguin Books]. The essential cooking companion contains over 350 easy-to-follow, scrumptious recipes, ensuring you’ll be baking classic French treats in no time. From éclairs and choux buns to traditional tarte tatin, there’ll be something for everyone to indulge in.

$49.95

Give your little one the best start in life with the help of What To Feed When by Annabel Karmel from Penguin Books Australia. Children’s food expert Annabel will guide you through over 400 questions regarding feeding your child from when they are born until they reach the age of three. The helpful publication covers everything from meals for allergy sufferers to the age old problem of getting them to eat their vegetables. By addressing the key issues, your baby will form healthy eating habits that will continue into their future.

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Add a personal touch to your home with DIY projects from Queen Of Crafts: The Modern Girls' Guide to Knitting, Sewing, Quilting Baking, Preserving and Kitchen Gardening by Jazz Domino Holly. Whether creating a knitted ensemble or baking your favourite cupcakes, the crafty collection of projects is sure to have something to keep everyone busy.

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Even more or your favourite traditional sweet treats have been compiled in this second book from Alexa Johnston, Second Helping: More from Ladies, a Plate, sprinkled with a few fresh twists for added spice. Melting Moments, and Boston Buns sit happily alongside Hokey Pokey Biscuits with added chocolate chips, carefully selected from over 60 years worth of community recipe books collected by the author. Johnston’s enduring interest in social history shows itself in the inclusion of notes from the original recipe writers, as well as morsels of information the author shares about them, in acknowledgement of their contributions. Round out your cookbook collection with this delicious addition.

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Join head chef Matt Moran for dinner as he unveils the secrets of home cooking in his tell-all book, When I Come Home from Penguin Books Australia. Filled with indulgent delights, everyday sumptuous meals and savoury sides, Matt Moran shares his passion and love for food. The renowned chef proves that his odd restaurant methods have a place at every table.

$49

French-born chef and television personality Manu Feildel reveals his secrets about cooking French classics in a home kitchen in his cookbook, Manu's French Kitchen from Penguin Books Australia. The cookbook has step-by-step instructions which simplify the most complicated French dishes such as the Foie Gras into an easy home cooked Sunday dinner. Move over Julia Child and bon appétit.

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From mouthwatering Panna Cotta to scrumptious ravioli, Your Place or Mine? from Penguin Books Australia is a tell-all cookbook with 80 recipes for anyone who wants to whip up a foodie haven. Get inside the minds of George and Gary as they reveal their hot tips, inspiring techniques and delectable recipes to guide you to be the next Masterchef Australia. A spoon full of kitchen wisdom and a pint of passion, Australia's beloved chefs share their love of cooking with all the home chefs out there!

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The Edible Balcony from Penguin Books Australia follows Indira Naidoo as she transforms her tiny urban balcony into a lush kitchen garden. Spending just 10 minutes a day maintaining her fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables, Naidoo creates a broad selection of home-grown produce. The book documents a year long, season-by-season recount of Naidoo’s journey and includes 60 recipes based on her produce. Not only does this book contain environmentally friendly ideas about how to use your balcony space, but it will inspire you to get your hands dirty in the garden.

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Wobble: 35 Tantalising Jellies is a recipe book for almost every kind of jelly. With an attitude that anything can be made into jelly, the book is original and quirky. With a recipe range from fun and simple kid’s jellies to more complicated adult, alcoholic recipes, the book has something for everyone.

$24

Confidently cook your own Lebanese feast using Abla's Lebanese Kitchen by Abla Amad. The acclaimed restaurateur has collected together a range of her delicious recipes from inviting casseroles to fresh salads. Full of photographs, tips and personal stories, the mouth-watering publication will ensure you can create a traditional Lebanese meal. You’ll be proudly presenting your home-made mezza-spread to all your friends with the help of Abla's Lebanese Kitchen by Abla Amad.

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Something Italian is a quality cookbook by renowned chef Maurizio Terzini from restaurants such as Otto and Icebergs Dining Room and Bar. Featuring various Italian recipes and the flavours of Italy, the book brings a playful and delicious atmosphere to the kitchen.

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Spices are the gems in your treasure trove of scrumptious recipes. They add depth and aroma to any dish and make simple meals taste like complex creations. Lyndey Milan and Ian Hemphill have compiled a no-fuss, all-purpose guide for flavour-filled feasts in Just Add Spice. You’ll unlock the secret of tasty spice mixes using the contents of an everyday spice rack. They’ll educate you on the properties of different spices and how to take advantage of alternate cooking methods to get the most out of your chosen flavour.

$49

Popular chef Dominique Rizzo introduces us to the notion of ‘soul food cooking’ in her first book of plentiful and scrumptious Sicilian delights. Meals inspired by the lot of the land, time honoured recipes passed down through the generations and, traditional flavours uncovered by time spent in her family’s homeland My Taste of Sicily is a celebration of the versatility and splendour of Sicilian food.

$39

Find how-to tips, delicious recipes and cooking techniques in Karen Martini's cookbook, Where the Heart Is from Penguin Books Australia. A collection of her mouthwatering recipes from Sunday Life magazine is packed with flavour, inspiration and ideas - helpful for any home chef to master family favourites. Plate up like a professional and learn how to make simple meals special.

$59

True to it's title, The Really Useful Cookbook from Penguin Books Australia is a kitchen guru for any home chef. Peppered with ideas and tips on simple but modern recipes, author David Herbert provides the tricks of the trade to make each dish your own. Easy to follow and enjoyable to whip up, these recipes will leave you taking reservations for your dinner table.

$55

Wild Food: 100 Recipes Using Australian Ingredients is a cook book that centres on the natural and unmistakable flavours of Australia. Using 14 native ingredients, Robins encourages any chef to think outside the box when it comes to their culinary experience. With stunning photography, this book is an informative, instructive addition to any Australian kitchen.

$55

To accompany her first television series, Kylie Kwong has written the cookbook Heart & Soul. Featuring recipes for the cuisines of Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa, the book covers a broad range of foods. With meals suitable for any occasion from a family dinner to a formal cocktail party, the Heart & Soul cookbook is a must-have for any kitchen.

$45

Thai Street Foodby chef David Thompson is a visually-impressive portrayal of the essence of food from the streets and markets of Thailand. With stunning photography by Earl Carter, this book helps you to recreate the unique culinary culture of this colourful and exciting destination, giving you a glimpse into what seems like another world. Thai Street Food is the perfect book to inspire your tastebuds and encourage you and your family to try new things.

$100

With simple instructions, colourful layouts and lots of fast, fun facts, Stephanie Alexander has compiled 120 tasty recipes for your young ones to try in Kitchen Garden Cooking with Kids. With Stephanie’s wisdom, these dishes are anything but standard. The pages are filled with mouthwatering homemade pastas, Indian curries and vegetable–rich winter soups to inspire the budding chef in your home. The book’s foundations bloom from the story behind the recipes of the Kitchen Garden at Collingwood College that Stephanie set up in 2001.

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Kylie Kwong takes you on a journey of discovery in this inspiring read. My China showcases the rural simplicity of Kylie’s Chinese heritage in the southwest as well as the modern marvels of Hong Kong and Shanghai. New experiences and encounters fill the pages that are peppered with Kylie’s mouthwatering recipes. The culinary journey is a feast for all the senses that will inspire Chinese cuisine in your Chef’s corner.

$79

These glossy gems are an indulgent treat that can now be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home. Whip up a batch of macarons to delight guests or, simply enjoy them all for yourself! With the help of pastry chef Alison Thompson, you’ll master the art of the macaron’s delicately crisp shell and soft, rich centre with 35 tantalising recipes. Create your own explosion of flavour with buttercream and genache filling that’ll have anyone’s mouth watering with easy, step-by-step instrutions.

$24

Discover an appetite for cooking with love from the intimate stories and inspiring recipes of Greek-Australian Maria Bernadis. With a collection of 100 dishes ranging from traditional moussaka, to adapted classics like the party-perfect spicy ouzo keftedes, Bernadis exhibits the lifeblood of Greece that is kin and dining. Beautifully photographed and interwoven with tales of family life, immigration and settlement, My Greek Table is a sumptuous and passionate book that invites you to share in the spirit of kerasma - the offering of food to those we love.

$59

Tasting India brings us the exotic flavours of India with over 250 recipes of modern and traditional Indian food. Part travel journal, part cookbook, Manfield documents her visits to India and the people she meets along the way. Full of spice and culture, the book will inspire anyone to travel and cook outside their comfort zone.

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Middle Eastern food and Mediterranean delicacies combine for a mouthwatering collection of recipes from Shane Delia, owner of Maha Bar and Grill in Melbourne. In his first cook book, Maha, Shane shares the secrets to fusing these two styles, with a focus on full-flavoured dishes, with a tantalising collection of recipes. Over 224 pages you’ll discover the keys to his creations which include fresh ingredients cooked from the heart. Share delicious recipes, including those handed down through the generations, with close family and friends. More than just a cookbook,Maha is a tribute to family life.

$49

Notorious as an authority on the fairer of fine foods, Michel Roux takes a new look at the subject and conjures up delightful recipes, inspired by his travels and fresh modern tastes. From hot soufflés to scrumptious fruit sorbets to adorned meringues to lavish gateaux, Desserts has your delectable desires filled with step-by-step recipes, helpful guides to techniques, and sumptuous illustrations, sure to make this book the ideal indulgence for any sweet lover.

$29

Share Tobie Puttock’s love affair with Italian cuisine in Cook Like an Italian by the celebrity chef himself. As a young cook, the Australian lived in Italy and worked eighteen-hour days in Italian kitchens to learn all the ropes. The land of green, white and red not only taught him the basics but also introduced him to well-known personalities including Jamie Oliver. Tobie Puttock is renowned for superior food ideas and appears on the Lifestyle Channel as well regularly contributing to Delicious magazine.

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Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cookbook: Recipes And Reminiscences from their Italian Cooking School encourages us to step into Tuscany and enjoy the classes run by Maggie Beer and Stephanie Alexander. Part cookbook, part travel journal, the Tuscan Cookbook inspires us to cook outside the box of classic dishes. Stunningly photographed and inspirational, the book is a must have for any kitchen bookshelf.

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ARIA’s chef-owner Matt Moran gets you feast savvy with his latest collection of recipes including starters, mains and desserts designed to help you pull-off restaurant quality flair at home. Start with oysters two ways, move on to sweetly-spiced roast duck breast, and finish-off their appetites with Matt’s luscious chocolate and Earl Grey tea tart, to sets tongues wagging and mouths salivating at the thought of your culinary prowess.

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The ladies at the renowned Country Women’s Association have climbed to success again with CWA Classics, a collection of over 400 legendary recipes. Discover the secret ingredients to 85-year-old Ailsa Bond’s steamed pudding, or what makes Shirley Tong’s lemony ginger cake come alive, as well as soups, stews, casseroles, pies, and preserves to inspire. Cooking is made easy with sensible, step-by-step instructions, to bring confidence to every novice cook. Fuss-free, practical, hands-on recipes are hallmarks of the kitchen must-have.

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Prolific writer, restauranteur and celebrity chef, Kylie Kwong, breathes new life into traditional Chinese cooking. With Simple Chinese Cooking, Kwong makes complex dishes easy for the home cook to create, without compromising on flavour. All of the old favourites are here, including wonton soup and sweet and sour pork, but reworked for the family kitchen with fresh produces, clean flavours and a variety of textures, just as Chinese food should be. Kwong has also included a few of her family’s favourites rarely found in restaurants, passed down through the generations and generously shared with you. A feast for the eyes as much as for the belly, Kylie Kwong’s recipes in Simple Chinese Cooking are accompanied by the rich illustrative photography of Earl Carter, making this book stand out, even amongst the most extensive collection.

$59

One of Australia’s most admired Italian chefs shows you how to prep with love in the My Italian Heart: Recipes from an Italian Kitchen from Penguin Books Australia.

$39

Discover the genius of pasta from scratch with detailed directions for making and cutting pasta, simple fillings and the perfect gnocchi. Versatile and mouth-watering pesto and sauces accompany the array of pastas in this collection that focuses on traditional recipes, with some contemporary interpretations by Lucio’s executive chef Logan Campbell, for the more adventurous home chef. From savoury beetroot ravioli to green pappadelle with Balmain bugs, The Art of Pasta is a thoughtfully crafted hard-cover, sure to become the new love of any cook with a taste for Italian. Mangiare felice!

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Inject life back into old recipes with secrets shared by television personality, Gary Mehigan. The celebrity chef presents a delicious compilation of much-loved dishes he has given a modern twist in his cookbook titled Comfort Food. The popular MasterChef Australia judge transforms family favourites such as spaghetti and meatballs, pumpkin soup and pancakes by tweaking with finishing touches that will reinvigorate any meal.

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The hosts and judges at the much-loved Masterchef Australia hit TV show, have graced the shelves again with their hit new book, Cook With Us: 20 Classic Techniques, 80 Delicious Recipes. Culinary icons Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris share behind-the-scene tricks on the show’s inspiring cooking challenges, with eighty mouth-watering recipes to whip up. Try your hand at braised pork belly with apples and raisins, or glossy mayonnaise, and discover the secrets on cooking a steak to order with matching hollandaise that is sure to impress when it’s time to entertain.

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The basis of Maggie Beer’s recipes can be found in her surrounding influences in the Barossa Valley. The food and culture crop up in her selection of tasty recipes and stories found in Maggie’s Table. You’ll see it in the seasonal ingredients, her travels to the local dairy for fresh cream and her trip to the butcher’s shop for smoked meats. The book is filled with snippets of her life as a cook enthusiast and even takes us along on a crabbing expedition with Maggie’s husband Colin, for classic crab cakes in the electric frypan. Country cooking has never had more heart and personality than in Maggie’s Table.

$49