The Latest Cookbooks – June 2024

Easy Wins

By Anna Jones – 4th Estate, RRP$60

In this incredibly user-friendly, vegetarian book, Anna takes 12 hero ingredients; lemons, olive oil, vinegar, mustard, tomatoes, capers, chilli, tahini, garlic, onions, miso and peanuts and provides 125 new dishes that you will want to have on high rotation.

With an emphasis on flavour, she shares advice on how to layer, season and transform these humble ingredients into super-simple recipes that are bursting with flavour and kind on the planet and busy schedules.

Anna Jones is an award-winning cook, writer and voice of modern vegetarian cooking. She believes that vegetables should be put at the centre of every table and is led by the joy of food and its ability to affect change in our daily lives. She lives in Hackney, East London, with her husband and two children.

Wild Figs and Fennel
A Year in an Italian Kitchen

By Letitia Clark – Hardie Grant Books, RRP$65

This book charts a year in Letitia’s Sardinian kitchen and is divided into the four seasons prefaced with a beautiful ode to the flowers, vegetables and weather transporting the reader there. There are plenty of photos of not only the delicious recipes but also the local surroundings. Recipes include simple yet striking pasta dishes, vegetable and salad sides, desserts and nibbles. You’ll be glad for a Sardinian sojourn through the pages of this pretty book.

After completing her Leiths diploma in food and wine, Letitia Clark worked in some of London’s top restaurants including Spring, Morito and The Dock Kitchen. She now lives in Sardinia where she works as a food writer, illustrator and chef.

I’ll Bring Dessert
Simple, Sweet Recipes for Every Occasion

By Benjamina Ebuehi – Quadrille, RRP$59.99

As the typically designated dessert person Benjamina happily volunteers to provide something sweet, it’s a role she loves and takes very seriously. Hence this beautiful cookbook sectioned by something fruity, something chocolatey, something creamy, something nutty and something on the side. Mouthwatering options include a chocolate chip cake with clotted cream, cherry slab pie, smoked salt and halva cookies and hot honey peach shortcakes so there’s a variety of recipes from quick to more detailed.

This is Benjamina’s third cookbook. She writes recipes, styles and creates content and is an ambassador for social enterprise Luminary Bakery.