The Latest Cookbooks - June 2023
A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food From Asia
by Lara Lee, Bloomsbury, $50
Chinese-Indian Australian chef and food writer Lara Lee brings us 80 recipes in this new cookbook, building on her debut Indonesian cookbook Coconut and Sambal. With cabbage growing in the vege patch, I’ll be plating up the Blistered Miso Cabbage with Seaweed. “While this recipe makes a significant side, the miso butter sauce elevates it into main meal territory, while the sprinkling of seaweed shards add umami and an extra-delicious savoury element to what is already a knockout meal,” says Lara. The chapters make it easy to find all the other dishes you want to make!
Sweet Enough
by Alison Roman, Hardie Grant Books, $65
A stylish cookbook for the bookshelf or kitchen bench, this is the first baking book by Alison Roman – the face behind the New York Times bestselling cookbooks Nothing Fancy and Dining In. Formerly a pastry chef, the book has over 100 stunning photographs and 80 recipes – all labelled as simple and flexible. There’s a jam that can be made in the oven, and effortless cakes – simple yet sublime sweets with Alison’s trademark casualness. The Salty Lemon Shortbread and Alison’s Perfect Salted Shortbread sound perfect to pair
with a cuppa.
latest issue:
126
We start by sharing what’s on the dish team’s radar, what we’re watching, listening to and reading. Harry Butterfield puts a twist on his Nonna’s agnolotti, Malissa Fedele reminds us of the importance of fibre, and Phoebe Holden fulfils a long-held dream, sitting down with Yotam Ottolenghi. Autumn is an abundant time, we make the most with pumpkin, kūmara, cabbage, cauliflower, feijoas, apples and pears. We’re dishing up dinners for two, including a Chicken Dumpling Lasagne, alongside easy weeknight meals. We honour our mums, revisit timeless classics, and add a little baking challenge. This issue, we encourage you to slow down, to enjoy writing your shopping list, and spending time in the kitchen. Because even when life feels relentless, there’s always space to share something delicious.