Book Reviews – Winter 2007

Lotus – Asian Flavours
Teage Ezard

Melbourne foodies will already be familiar with this widely acclaimed chef and his very fine two-hatted eponymous restaurant in Flinders Lane. For those not lucky enough to be able to easily experience this deliciously bold south-east Asian inspired restaurant, here is your chance to try your hand at home. Generous, luscious, exquisite yet simple; these recipes display all the hallmarks of Ezard’s traditional style with his signature twist. Well worth the effort. RRP $49.95 Hardie Grant Books

Grossi Florentino: Secrets & Recipes
Guy Grossi & Jan McGuinness

One of the first places to serve espresso coffee and homemade pasta, Guy Grossi took over the Florentino in 1999 and it is now considered to one of the city’s best Italian restaurants. This book encompasses over 80 of Grossi’s classic recipes along with the history; written by McGuinness, that has seen Florentino rise from it’s humble beginnings in 1900 as a wine café at the wrong end of town, to one of Melbourne’s dual-hatted dining institutions. RRP $39.95 Penguin Australia

Winter in the Alps : Food by the Fireside
Manuela Darling-Gansser 

For anyone having experienced the beauty of a European winter, this is food to warm the hands and the heart. This is a personal account a Swiss winter when life moves indoors and food plays an important part in the rituals of the season. Within the confines of this small country there are a variety of regional cuisines, forced by the extremes of terrain and climate. The author does not try to emulate these fantastically unique foods but rather offers inspired recipes, which, on a cold winter’s day in Australia, are deliciously tempting yet relatively simple. RRP $59.95 Hardie Grant Books

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