Cookbooks

I’ve written four award-winning cookbooks: Alice’s Food A-Z to help kids get curious about food, In Praise of Veg to help households fall in love with vegetables and Better Cooking to help build cooking confidence. Cookbook number 4 – Salad for Days helps give every cook the tools to make friends with salad.

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Salad for Days

Salad for Days is both a seasonal reference guide and a daily roster to boost your repertoire, packed with inspiration. There’s 80 different dressings, one for each of the salads. Not sure what salad dressing mood you’re in? I’ve got you, with choose-your-salad-mood options. Spicy and funky, zippy and zesty, rich and creamy, bright and light AND bonus crunchy bits to match your salad mood.

But wait, there’s more! One you’ve picked your mood, what’s the weather like? This book has your decision making covered with the Warmer Days and Cooler Days sections.

Feeling like something refreshing and cooling on a warmer day? Try the Relaxed Chopped Salad, or the Gado Gado Platter with pantry satay sauce.

For warming and grounding on cooler days, try the Calamari and Shell Pasta Salad, classics like a Frisée or Carrot & Wild Rice Salad with Marmalade Dressing. That marmalade dressing is going to rock your world!

This is a pesco book but there’s always substitutions. Check the index in the back of the book once you know what you have in the fridge to use up and you’ll be riffing your way to a delicious salad in no time.

IN CONVERSATION – THU OCT 3

Readings Hawthorn: Salad for Days

Come hear about how you can make friends with salad, and why it’s very ready to make friends with you. Hosted by my curious conversationalist, long-time pal and Masterchef judge Sofia Levin, we’ll chat about breezy ways with veg, all year round, and compare notes on ingredients far & wide.

WHERE: 687, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122.
WHEN: Thursday 3rd October 6.30pm
REGISTRATION: FREE (!!) but bookings are essential

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International Best seller

Better Cooking

Whether you’re already a dab hand, you’re a battler who finds cooking a bit meh, or you’re starting from ‘which way do I hold the knife?’, The Joy of Better Cooking has all the inspiration, hand-holding and cheerleading you need to relax into the rhythm and truly enjoy cooking for your family and friends.

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2021 ABIA Winner

In Praise of Veg

In Praise of Veg has been translated into six languages (and counting!) in 14 countries, winning an ABIA in Australia, a Gastronomisch gold medal in Germany, a nomination for cookbook of the year in The Netherlands and a berth as a James Beard finalist in North America.

In this comprehensive and fully illustrated kitchen companion, 50 favourite vegetable varieties are profiled, offering 150+ recipes reflective of both tradition and modernity, just as all good cooking should be. Uniquely organised by colour and filled with countless tips on flavour combinations, rule-of-thumb buying/storing/cooking methods, shortcuts, and veg wisdom from over 50 of the world’s top chefs, In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn a bag of yawns or a produce-box surprise into a knock-out meal.

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Children’s book

Alice’s Food A to Z

My first book for young foodies takes readers on an edible adventure; packed with delicious facts, clever cooking tips and kid-approved recipes.

Young readers will be captivated by a feast of information: from avocados to zucchini and everything in between. The aim is to inspire a love of food in kids with this tasty book that’s full of all the things you ever wanted to know about food – and also some things you probably didn’t!

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BONUS VEG COOKING GUIDE

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