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COOK

The Only Book You Need in the Kitchen
By Karen Martini
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COOK by Karen Martini is an inviting collection of diverse and delicious recipes, reflecting the author's passion for fresh ingredients and bold flavours. With a focus on approachable home cooking, this book offers guidance and inspiration for both everyday meals and special occasions, showcasing a blend of traditional and innovative dishes. Ideal for cooks of all skill levels, it promises to enhance your culinary repertoire with its warmth and expertise.
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You might enjoy this book if you love exploring new culinary ideas and recipes from a talented chef. With numerous dishes inspired by seasonal ingredients and diverse cuisines, it offers an array of flavours to elevate your cooking. It’s perfect for those looking to expand their kitchen repertoire and impress with vibrant, delicious meals.

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COOK

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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INFORMATION

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

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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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