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COOK
The Only Book You Need in the Kitchen
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Cook is your essential, creative and knowledgeable friend in the kitchen: it delivers both an expert take on the foundations of good food and it offers new ways to bring together the very best, most joyful, flavourful meals.
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In COOK: The Only Book You Need in the Kitchen, acclaimed chef Karen Martini shares a lifetime of cooking, eating and learning about food. This is an essential collection of more than 1000 recipes, from old favourites to brilliant new dishes.
Karen has inspired generations of home cooks, and with this milestone book, she brings us a generous breadth of cuisines and ingredients, celebrating vibrant flavours from a uniquely Australian perspective. Karen won’t just show you what to cook; she will teach you how to cook, with everything you need to prepare effortlessly delicious meals.
Each recipe in this modern classic is packed with hard-won wisdom from Karen’s inspiring career and Tunisian-Italian heritage. Providing midweek meals, signature spreads, dinner-party dishes and feasts for special occasions, COOK will guide you to make each meal your own. Enjoy an incredible array of classic and contemporary recipes – from the simple to the elaborate – suitable for all skill levels.
This deeply personal book bursts with dishes reflecting the richly diverse world of food. Karen’s unrivalled understanding of how we eat today will delight experienced home cooks and newcomers alike. It’s time to COOK.
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Reviews for COOK by Karen Martini highlight its delightful and cookable recipes, reflecting the author's personal touch and focus on ingredients and meals. Renowned chefs have praised the book as generous and abundant, emphasising its value as a comprehensive cooking guide suitable for both home cooks and professionals. The work is considered essential and is likened to a culinary 'bible' by some reviewers.
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ISBN: 9781743794494
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 August 2022
Country: Australia
Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
Illustration: Full-colour Photography
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 62.0mm
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 245.0mm
Weight: 2352g
Pages: 912
About the Author
Chef Karen Martini’s acclaimed career includes two-hatted stints at Melbourne Wine Room and Sydney’s Icebergs Dining Room, as well as her own ventures – the latest of which is the ambitious Hero, in Melbourne's iconic ACMI building, where she is a founding partner and creative food director. Karen has had a TV presence for nearly two decades, including as resident chef on Australia's longest-running lifestyle television series, Better Homes and Gardens. She is a weekly columnist for Good Weekend, she is in-demand at events and festivals, and she is the author of eight cookbooks. Her newest book, COOK, is by far her most comprehensive and ambitious, cementing her place as the voice of a generation and an authority that will endure in readers' lives for decades to come.
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