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Whether you are after a minimalist or maximalist aesthetic, architect and plant whisperer Jason Chongue will walk you through the myriad possibilities when bringing life to your home spaces, inside and out.The Plant Society Design Handbook is a book in three parts: First, it presents pictorial guides to plants and planters. Defining their form and illustrating how they grow and matching planters to plants, textures and tones. It also talks through how to start; how to budget; how to establish the basis of your design. Second, it is a handbook of blueprints and recipes for people who consider plants an important player in a well-styled urban home but want expert help choosing and executing a vision. The 50 blueprints and recipes include illustrations, photography, floor plans where applicable, a kit of parts much like an Ikea installation guide, a shopping list (including plant types, planter shapes, potting mix types), and an ongoing care sheet. Examples include: a simple potted eco-system; potted cluster gardens; the minimal balcony; the Mediterranean balcony; the tiny terrace with herbs and citrus; the lush, narrow fence line; the indoor winter garden; the indoor hanging garden; the fresh living room; beside clusters; and the green workspace. Third, is the essential guide to a flourishing garden: pruning; deadheading; repotting; aerating; espalier; feeding for flower and produce; pest prevention; seasonality; understanding plant types; when to plant; and when to sow.

From the Wild is a herbal medicine cookbook offering a simple, resourceful, nature-based approach to health and wellbeing. Qualified naturopath and medical herbalist Heidi Merika draws on her decades of experience to create delicious, nutritious, plant-based recipes and healing home remedies from 30 of the world's most common edible wild plants, from cat's ear to cobbler's pegs, dandelion to dock, and nasturtium to wild raspberry. Enjoy over 100 recipes including a spring salad full of wild edibles, nettle gnocchi verde, and clover muffins, along with lantana itch balm, chickweed anti-inflammatory gel and St John's wort pain ointment. Including information on foraging safely and sustainably, From the Wild is all you need to forage, cook and eat wild foods for abundant health.

Some books tell you about menopause, about what to expect, breaking taboos and myths, getting more transparency around the symptoms and treatments. Much of it is about raising awareness, getting everyone talking more openly about menopause and showing women that there is real advice out there that's now easier to access than ever before. Dr Linia Patel's friendly, authoritative cookbook steps into this growing area with the nutritional essentials, but just as importantly with how to make your menopause work for you in a simple way. It's about understanding the process and mastering your midlife body by knowing exactly what to put on your plate. Why do you get brain fog, which nutrients should you be getting more of to combat it, and what are the recipes you can make to pack in more of those nutrients? Studies show that how you prepare yourself during the perimenopause is the game changer. And there's of course so much you can factor into your diet to see you through menopause and post-menopause and crucially to enable you to thrive, not just survive.

Broccoli and Other Love Stories is a study and celebration of 55 food plants, arranged by plant family and chosen because the author grows, cooks, and eats them regularly, with accessibility front of mind (many being suitable for container gardens for urban cooks, and most being available at grocers in temperate regions around the world) but also including a few curiosities because that is what makes life interesting.

Melbourne food people and out of towners in the know quickly formed a queue at Andreas Papadakis's tiny city eatery when word of his astonishingly good pasta got out. What could this unassuming Greek chef's secret be, they wondered - he's not even Italian! Here, at last, across 80-plus recipes, Andreas welcomes loyal fans and readers into the Tipo 00 vault and shows them how it's possible to recreate the magic at home. Covering different fresh pasta techniques, shapes and sauces, and including step-by steps, Tipo 00, the book, is a masterclass for anyone who wants to revolutionise their pasta game.

“Luke is one of the best chefs in the world and it’s time for everyone to get a glimpse into his craft. He is the true vanguard for all things meats and cooking. This book is so awesome. It’s the one and only you’ll ever need, for real.” – Matty Matheson, chef, author, and actor/producer of The BearSausages, salami, bacon and a dry-aged, smoked brisket: all tried-and-true classics answering the questions of how to make meat last longer, go further, taste better. But some meats taste a lot better than others, and there's a reason why: quality meats and quality recipes.Welcome to the essential companion for cooking and making epic Quality Meats, whether you are a beginner, expert or somewhere in between. From easy recipes for grilling and roasting your favourite cuts, to sandwiches and small plates, to more ambitious undertakings like making bacon, briskets, sausages and charcuterie, or smoking your own meats, acclaimed chef Luke Powell has you covered.Luke worked in top-level kitchens for decades before pursuing his passion for charcuterie and is now founder and co-owner of hatted restaurant turned smallgoods wholesaler LP's Quality Meats, and Bella Brutta Pizza, both in inner Sydney. He has a chef's sense for flavour and has honed the art of charcuterie at home over multiple decades. This fully photographed, wibalin-textured hardback has over 80 recipes with step-by-step photography and includes special features on salami and brisket.

Supermarkets are stuffed full of pumpkins in the run-up to Halloween. So many people just carve them for Jack-o'-lanterns then throw away the seeds and leftover flesh, not knowing how easily they can be cooked and eaten.Don't Waste Your Pumpkin offers all sorts of tasty recipes to make use of every part of the pumpkin and majors on avoiding waste. There are also simple craft projects to take you beyond the usual carving traditions and celebrate all kinds of pumpkin. There's so much more to the cosy autumn season than pumpkin spice!

Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form – yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It's there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as lauded as the 'perfect' food or lambasted as not fit for human consumption and a toxic planet killer, depending on who you trust. Which type you drink, whether you were raised on breastmilk, what you think of it, is affected by culture, biology and fashion. How you view it is driven by your gender and your politics, as well as your geography. The miracle liquid has suffered an image problem. It has been used to keep people poor, to keep women subjugated, and to build corporate and medical careers. It's been blamed for climate change, the breakdown of human health, and an enabler of the industrial revolution. From perfect food to pariah, milk's role in life has often been debased.Milk celebrates the majesty of this noble liquid, and delves into the pretenders to its throne, from formula to Mylk. It looks at the transformation of what a milk-producer eats into one of the most nutrient dense foods available, and how that can be transformed again into the butter, cheese and clotted cream that we know and love today. It's an exploration of the science, history and politics of what makes mammals different from every other life form on earth.

All hail the greatest meal on the planet!Hamburger Gourmet is here to ensure you never eat a bland burger again. It's time to take your burger cooking to towering new heights, inspired by the team behind Blend hamburger, the cult restaurant that creating hamburger greatness. Begin with the building blocks of an excellently simple beef burger, with the best bun and fries you've ever had. Then up your game with burgers made of everything from chicken to quinoa. With separate instructions on choice of buns, sauces and accompaniments, these 58 recipes will give even the biggest burger-lover new ideas for surprising twists on old favourites. All delivered in a cute gift format with die-cut front cover, Hamburger Gourmet is the must-have gift for any burger lover.

There is more than a little truth in the suggestion that beer is humankind's greatest ever invention. It was a thirsty appetite that motivated people to grow the grains needed to make beer: bread was more an afterthought. And while wine might be synonymous with fancy restaurant fare, beer is the perfect match for the big, bold flavours of Peri-Peri Chicken, Lamb Shawarma or Goulash. Nothing cuts through the heat of Fish Baked in Chipotle or the salty crispness of Calamari Fritti of the fresh fizz of a cold beer.Beer Food is the perfect recipe book and beer-matching guide to the flavours you love with a brew. Featuring 80 relaxed, authentic dishes drawing from cuisines internationally, and sprinkled with features on favourite beers from around the world, this is a cookbook that understands that Great Food + Good Beer = Happiness.

The book offers a variety of projects and ideas for every room in the house using simple craft and DIY techniques. Almost everything can be made by an absolute beginner, yet there are also inspiring projects that will appeal to the more skilled crafter. From candles and lampshades to dressers and curtains, there's a range of projects and an introduction to some of the most useful DIY techniques, such as sanding, sewing and painting.Restoring old furniture, repurposing forgotten fabrics, decorating your home using whatever nature has to offer ­- it's possible to create a picture-perfect cottage frugally and simply with some creative ideas and a little DIY know-how. Jodie May Seymour has transformed her English country cottage on a tight budget and created an idyllic home for her family.With a recent, sharp increase in people leaving town for country, especially younger professionals, there's a particular interest in cottage chic and of course sustainability through upcycling and repurposing.

A fascinating exploration of the unique history and biology of fasting - a practice resurging in popularity and an essential part of many health approaches, religions and philosophies.

"I'm thrilled by this beautiful book. Cherie's recipes are bursting with flavor and creativity. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do."– Maggie Beer Wherever she's lived around the world, Cherie Hausler's instinct has been to host 'country gatherings' – bringing people together to share good food and good times. That passion grew when she returned home to the Barossa Valley to settle in an unrenovated 150-year-old stone farmhouse on Koonunga Hill. It's there that she tends a rambling edible garden, forages for wild olives, turns apples into cider vinegar, makes kombucha, bakes, blends (and drinks!) tea, tends her horses, ducks, dogs, and other animal friends, and nurtures community connection through vegan food. At a local horticultural meeting, Cherie was reminded of how easy it can be to find familiar food territory with others: "Oh, we all eat plants, dear – nothing new in that," one member quipped.A Plant-Based Farmhouse celebrates exactly that timelessness, with more than 80 wholefood, dairy- and sometimes gluten-free recipes based on traditional plant-based country foods and cooking methods, along with veg-centric riffs on familiar homestead favorites. Whether it's inspiration for hearty salads, roasts and brunches, magnificent cakes and tarts, or go-to staples, there's so much deliciousness within these pages. Plant-based or otherwise, no one need miss out.

Ela! Ela! is a collection of recipes and stories from cook and food writer Ella Mittas. Inspired by her time working in a village in the mountains of Crete and the hot, loud streets of Istanbul, as well as her Greek heritage, they represent a journey of food, culture and belonging. These simple, comforting recipes are a mix of things Ella saw, ate and was taught on her travels, though years of cooking them have made them something more her own. Above all, they represent community – the reason Ella ever wanted to cook at all.

60 fun, ultra tasty and moreish recipes for adventurous cooks, taking lots of favourite dishes like chicken tikka, BBQ pulled pork, fish and chips, Mexican chicken and refried beans and turning them into layered traybakes using lasagne using 'sheets' like papadums, ribboned veg, tortilla wraps, pasta, pancakes and more!This is a cookbook for anyone who likes to have fun with their cooking. Everyone loves lasagne, so why not use it as a base for lots of different classics and twists. As well as chapters on Meat, Fish, and Vegetables, there are also Desserts and Celebrations suitable for special occasions throughout the year.

Self-taught chef Nathan started uploading his delicious recipes on social platforms during the first lockdown in April 2020 and The Grub Works Kitchen was born. Creator of those videos you just can't stop watching on TikTok, he has enjoyed over 30 million views from fans hooked on his mouth-watering dishes, epic flavours, and oodles of personality. His community of loyal fans tune in to his regular cook-along live shows to watch him cook up a FLAYVA storm.Nathan has worked with household brands including Deliveroo, The Sims and Sainsbury's, where he created his own flayvaful version of the classic Hot Cross Bun! Now known as the King of FLAYVAS across TikTok, his aim is to show how experimenting with classic family dishes can be fun and full of FLAYVA.His Caribbean heritage influences many of his dishes, which are packed full of spice and big flavours. These are the sorts of dishes that reel viewers in on TikTok - Hot Honey Chicken Sandwich, Jerk Chicken Quesadillas, Cajun Roast Potatoes, Shawarma Spiced Lamb - because they're familiar and Nathan makes them so easy to recreate at home.

Beyond Atomic Habits, a practical and evidence-based guide by a world-renowned researcher on hacking your habits for lasting change. If you’ve ever set a goal to start a new habit or break an old one and you fell off the wagon; if you’ve been in a cycle of yo-yo dieting, phone scrolling or alarm snoozing; or if you intend to do one thing but end up doing another, then you’re in the right place. Why do you find yourself repeating unwanted patterns? What do you do when exhaustion creeps in and you lose your willpower? The good news is it’s never too late to reprogram your habits. But how long does it really take and how can you make the changes stick? Leading habit researcher Dr Gina Cleo reveals revolutionary breakthroughs in behavioral science that will help you uncover how your brain works, and how to rewire it to make instant and lasting change in your life. Discover evidence-based techniques to break free from unwanted habits, master your motivation and navigate setbacks to achieve the lifestyle you’ve always wanted, no matter what stage of life you’re in. Packed with practical insights, inspiring stories and surprisingly simple activities to try today, The Habit Revolution is your guide to a life magnificently remastered through the incredible power of habits.

It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the farms, from the bush to the towns, from the rainforest to the outback. Annabelle brings together the best work from more than 50 leading writers, photographers and artists from her award-winning magazine, celebrating not only incredible landscapes and remarkable, beautiful places, but also the diversity, resourcefulness and creativity of the people that call the country home.

"The easiest and best gatherings are when everyone pitches in. It's sanity-saving for the host, not to mention energy- and money-saving. And arguably more fun and interesting. But what do you make when asked to bring a plate? Bestselling author and beloved country cook Sophie Hansen offers seasonally delicious answers to that perennial question. Drawing inspiration from some of her favourite country cooks, friends, family and bring-a-plate traditions, here are the best recipes when you need a: Salad of substance; Dinner for a camping trip; Soup for the thermos; Wintry pot-luck meal; Treat for the cake stall and countless others besides. The common thread of all Sophie Hansen's recipes and gatherings is the community and kindness that binds us. These recipes and ideas will help glue together your own special gatherings."--Publisher's website.

Every gardener needs clever ideas to make the most of their green space, whether it's big or small. The tips and tricks in this book take you through each season of the gardening year in a friendly way, with clear step-by-step instructions. Hacks include making a spiral frame for tomatoes using an old garden hose, a clever way to repot plants, how to keep seeds moist with old cardboard, and how to make your own seed bombs. Garden Hacks is your go-to guide to clever shortcuts, fresh inspiration and fun in the garden while recycling, saving money and thinking sustainably.

Straight from Janusz's heart to yours: this is the ultimate celebration of pride, of everyone you love, and most importantly, of you! Get ready for any Pride party with this outrageous collection of sweet treats, including cakes, cookies, macarons, puddings, buns, cheesecake, bread, tarts, brownies, meringues, doughnuts, cupcakes and every other bake that can be made, decorated and shared. Whether you want to show yourself some self-love, throw a brunch for friends, or host a huge Pride party with a show-stopping cake there's something here for every occasion. Try a retro love heart cake, date night brownies, Prosecco and strawberry mousse cake, body confidence cookies (and everyone can decorate their own!), a phenomenal Pride flag layer cake, and even some dog-friendly treats for your faithful companion!Really, there's no reason needed to get the piping bag out and have some fun in the kitchen with Janusz.

You don't have to be good at art for art to be good for you. Being creative is good for us: it lowers our stress hormones, calms our nervous system and can get us into a flow state. Our innate creativity is part of being human, but it's easy to forget, especially since many of us have been told that we are "no good" at art. At a time when mental health challenges are on the rise and support systems are stretched, Creative First Aid is your practical guide to taking matters into your own hands, literally. It's about the proven positive effects of making something - a garden, a story, a meal, a drawing - and the powerful interaction this process can have on your mental, emotional and physical state. It's about being curious, playful, creative and full of self-compassion - even more so when life gets messy. Based on scientific evidence and a program shown to improve mental wellbeing for first responders and traumatised communities, this inspiring book empowers you with awareness and simple creative tools that can open a door to experiencing delight, awe and joy each and every day. It includes stories from those who have found their way through trauma, anxiety, grief and chronic illness, as well as 50 creative prescriptions you can try, with some taking just a couple of minutes. Creative First Aid is your roadmap for how to look after yourself on tough days, amazing days - and all the days in between.

Take a bite of the Big Apple! 130 recipes that unlock the secrets of NYC's legendary dining scene, all in an irresistible gift format.

Baker Bleu The Book is a cookbook of sorts. At least, it has 70-plus delicious, inventive recipes for anyone who wants to emulate the best bread and Roman-style sourdough pizza bases in Melbourne. And those who are sandwich fiends (like Neil Perry), or who aspire to resourcefulness with leftover bread, or use croissant dough to make simple filled pastries at home (and prudently leave the whole croissant palaver to the experts). Or just crave the bakery's now cultish vegan challah (born of the fact its first low-grade food licence did not allow them to work with eggs). But there is more to it too. It's also a story of what's possible when you wake up one day and decide there's more to life than the soulless corporate grind. And you sign on with pluck and ambition to bake it till you make it.

In each of the four sections of this timeless book, Angela Clutton delves into vital techniques for cooking, eating and preserving. So, in Spring we learn to infuse the season's first delicate herbs in oils and vinegars and in Winter how to salt and confit produce. Each season will be introduced with a double-page design of hero ingredients, key techniques and flavour partnerships followed by 'seasoning notes' - a harmonisation of produce and process. Fresh, modern and approachable recipes will then put these notes into practice. From warming Winter dishes like Roasted cauliflower with feta fritters to Summer's Lavender honey madeleines with quick raspberry compote, these are recipes to empower the home cook to understand and coax the best out of their ingredients all year round.Vegetables and fruits take centre stage, but Angela also weaves in profiles of meat and fish, the latter so often neglected in seasonal cookbooks. Angela's interconnected and intuitive approach, considering both the character of each season's ingredients and the changes in how we 'season' them, is exactly what will make SEASONING an essential year-round toolkit. This is a book that shares the ambition of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and just as Samin Nosrat taught us how to cook in that volume, Angela here provides lessons on creating flavours and shows how we can temper and flex them throughout a seasonal calendar. Her recipes are thoughtful and imaginative without seeming overwrought and unattainable.

Take a tin of tomatoes and you have the start of a tasty, easy meal. Tinned tomatoes are endlessly versatile and super budget-friendly. With a handful of other ingredients, many of which you'll already have in your cupboards or which can easily be picked up on your way home, you can whip up recipes such as prawn and coconut curry, chicken and chorizo pie, halloumi and Mediterranean vegetable traybake, tuna pasta bake, three types of chilli and of course lots of pasta sauces.Pick a chapter to suit you - Storecupboard Saviours; Pasta Sauces; One-Pot Wonders; Family Feasts; Midweek Marvels; Snacks, Sides and Sauces - and select a recipe according to your dietary requirements, time constraints or batch-cooking needs. This will soon become the most-used cookbook in your kitchen!

Part recipe book and part travel guide, Istanbul Cult Recipes offers an immersive experience of food, culture and place.