The day I met Dominique Rizzo, it was bright, sunny and beautiful just like the cover of her book, My Taste of Sicily. Dominique was in Canberra presenting cooking demonstrations during Floriade and we were enjoying afternoon tea in the garden at Lindeman's cellar door.
Former head chef and partner of Brisbane's Mondo Organics restaurant, Dominique is a natural teacher and loves to share her knowledge of Sicilian food and cookery. Her company, Pure Food Cooking, teaches school students and adults, and incorporates cooking classes and presentations, recipe development and food styling for magazines. Dominique also appears on Ready, Steady, Cook as well as guest spots on the 7pm Project and national radio segments.
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I have to admit I was tickled pink when I saw an email saying 'Congratulations! You have won a Toby's Estate Book and Bean Pack'. I had simply answered the 'Tell us where you enjoy Toby's Estate coffee' or words to that effect, with the honest response that I love to have my Toby's Estate double-shot macchiato at my sunny kitchen table using freshly ground beans that have been recently roasted and delivered right to my door.
Matthew Evans loves winter, in fact he adores it, evidenced by the introduction to his latest offering Winter on the Farm - Heartwarming Food for the Cold Months. "Winter is ... a time of hiberation, with less work to do in the garden and more excuses to pull up the pouf, get out the granny rug for the legs and read a book," he writes. Yeah Matthew, I'm hearing you!
Forty years ago, the late Elizabeth David inspired a whole generation of cooks and food writers with her remarkable book, Italian Food. A hard cover edition, completely revised and updated by the author shortly before her death in 1992, was released in 1990. This beautifully decorated book makes Mrs David’s classic collection of authentic regional dishes available to a new generation of cooks and lovers of good food.
Food writer and cooking teacher, Lorenza De' Medici, displays her passion for food saying that fresh fruit provides us with one of life's greatest sensual pleasures. In her exquisite book, A Passion for Fruit, De' Medici celebrates the seasons and combines her love of fruit with recipes, snippets of fruit-inspired prose and stunning photographs. This book is dedicated to passion and pleasure at the table. Stunning photography from cover to cover by specialist photographer in Italian food and wine, Mike Newton, makes this book a must-have for the coffee table and bookshelf... if you are able to souce a copy, do buy it.
A Passion for Fruit by Lorenza De' Medici (Viking). |
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