Books

Winter is here, so we’re cracking a bottle and settling in with a new book. Fireplace optional. Here are our picks.

Cookbooks new and old will be cracked open, cooked from and discussed by some of our favourite chefs and thinkers.

Fatherhood meant Anthony Bourdain had to settle down – in the kitchen. With his daughter now his main customer, he tells Peter Meehan, he decided to tackle home cooking.

A new book from Janne Apelgren and Joanna Savill chronicles a global food adventure to some of the world’s best restaurants.

These dozen tales depict divergent lives in food. Swerve from a fast and furious account of a drug-addled line cook, to a fragrant memoir about living and cooking in China.

As part of the magazine’s 50th birthday celebrations, Gourmet Traveller has released its first hardcover cookbook, Menus.

Does Australia’s relationship with meat need to change? Food journalist and GT contributor Richard Cornish thinks so...

Hetty McKinnon, the salad queen who took her leaves from Surry Hills to the world, shares a little of the cosmopolitan inspiration behind her latest cookbook.

We ask Eau de Vie owner and Shaken, Stirred, Flamed & Thrown author Sven Almenning why we should buy his book.

We’ve seen a bumper crop in food publishing. Pat Nourse picks the 10 best books of the year for your stocking-stuffing convenience.