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Essential Annabel Langbein

By Annabel Langbein
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Annabel's 25th book is an essential contemporary, authoritative, and comprehensive kitchen companion for today's home cook—a 320-page treasury of easy but delicious savoury recipes illustrated with full-colour photography and accompanied by an encyclopaedia of tried-and-true cooking tips. Featuring more than 650 recipes, Essential Annabel Langbein offers... Read More
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In this beautiful new compendium, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein gathers more than 650 of her best-ever savoury recipes.

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Annabel's 25th book is an essential contemporary, authoritative, and comprehensive kitchen companion for today's home cook—a 320-page treasury of easy but delicious savoury recipes illustrated with full-colour photography and accompanied by an encyclopaedia of tried-and-true cooking tips.

Featuring more than 650 recipes, Essential Annabel Langbein offers something for all tastes, all seasons, and all occasions. Some recipes are Annabel's own personal favourites. Others are timeless classics, selected by popular demand, then retested and tweaked to make them better than ever. Plus, there are dozens of new recipes created by Annabel especially for this book, inspired by the food she's cooking and eating right now.

Essential Annabel Langbein is not just a recipe book—it's a lifetime of cooking inspiration, showcasing more than 650 recipes, plus hundreds of variations and clever cooking tips designed to make you a more resourceful cook.

"My aim is to inspire people to try something new, then empower them to make it their own, changing ingredients to suit the season or their personal tastes, or applying 'springboard' techniques to different cuisines or flavour families. This makes it so easy to get creative in the kitchen and have fun around the table."

Every recipe has been retested and tweaked for today's tastes—maybe with fewer refined ingredients or a gluten-free option, or maybe with on-trend flavours such as sriracha, chipotle, or aquafaba. "It's amazing how our cooking has changed over the years. With a global pantry of flavours at our fingertips, it's now so easy to make interesting dishes from all around the world."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780958266895

Publisher: Annabel Langbein Media

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 March 2017

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Annabel Langbein Media

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 600g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Over more than 25 years, Annabel has written and published 25 cookbooks and starred in and co-produced three seasons of her award-winning TV series Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook. It's Annabel's mission to get people into the kitchen to create simple, healthy meals to share with family and friends. Her lighthearted, down-to-earth approach, no-fail recipes and clever kitchen tips have earned her a passionate international following. Annabel's books have won numerous international awards, been translated into multiple languages and sold more than two million copies throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. Her TV series has screened in more than 90 countries around the world and is currently screening in the United States on the PBS network (the US equivalent of the BBC and home to quality programming such as Downton Abbey). In February 2016 she won the People's Choice Award for Best Home Chef in a TV Series at the US-based Taste Awards. A foundation member of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand, Annabel is uniquely qualified as a flag-bearer for the international sustainability movement, having spent her early life living off the land, cooking over an open fire, trapping possums in the Ureweras and jumping out of helicopters to recover live deer. You can read more of Annabel's story at http://www.annabel-langbein.com/annabel/about/. Annabel grows much of her family's fresh produce in extensive organic gardens on the shores of scenic Lake Wanaka, where Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook is filmed.

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