Secondhand Cookbook Bargain Book Box SP4104

Secondhand Cookbook Bargain Book Box SP4104

Twelve cookbooks, mostly Australian and mostly hardback: George Calombaris’s The Press Club, Lucy Tweed’s Every Night of the Week, Ben O’Donoghue’s Outdoor, Donna Hay’s Fruit, James Reeson’s Alive and Cooking, Culinaria Italy, a MiNDFOOD summer collection, and solid slow-cooker, air-fryer and one-pot books.

1. Blakes — Andrew Blake — The Melbourne restaurant’s recipes from the chef who ran it for twenty years. Clean, modern, and hard to find now.
2. Culinaria Italy — The Ullmann regional encyclopaedia: every province’s food, photographed in place, with recipes. Pasta, pesto, passion is the subtitle and it’s not wrong.
3. One-Pot Cooking for the Family — More than 100 tested recipes, stews to bakes, in a cheerful hardback.
4. Outdoor: Grill Your Way Around the World — Ben O’Donoghue — The Surfing the Menu chef on barbecue from Argentina to Thailand. Charcoal, smoke and a deckchair.
5. Every. Night. Of. The. Week. — Lucy Tweed — Sanity solutions for the daily dinner grind: panic pasta, midweek rump, drunken dumplings. Donna Hay’s protégée, and the most-used weeknight book of the last five years.
6. MiNDFOOD Summer — The magazine’s favourite recipes for the season, in a square hardback.
7. Alive and Cooking Series 2 — James Reeson — Recipes from the daytime TV show, fast and cheerful.
8. The Press Club: Modern Greek Cookery — George Calombaris — The Melbourne restaurant’s food before MasterChef made him famous: taramasalata, lamb, the Greek doughnuts. The serious Calombaris book.
9. Cook Britain — Sainsbury’s — 120 tried-and-tested British classics in a hardback with the map cover.
10. Slow Cooker: 100 Recipes — Stews, braises and curries for the pot that’s on all day.
11. Air Fryer: 100 Recipes — Chips, onion rings, burgers and roast vegetables for the appliance everyone bought.
12. Donna Hay Simple Essentials: Fruit — Donna Hay — Fruit tarts, crumbles, salads and the raspberry cake on the cover. Small red hardback.