The New Zealasnd's Cook's Bible by Lesley Christensen-Yule & Hamish McRae

Posted: 28/06/2010 12:59:29 p.m.

This comprehensive book provides a complete background for anyone who requires a reference for cooking techniques and all the information needed to run a successful kitchen in the New Zealand home. It was intended as a working text book for cookery students, but it goes much further than that with classic recipes and a huge amount of information about everything from kitchen utensils to vegetables and all meat, fish and poultry cuts.

Nutrition, pastry, baking and much more are covered with many useful charts and illustrations.

Curiously the food photography is not captioned although most photos fall next to or near the given recipe.

It would be terrifically useful for a beginner cook and provides a good reference for more accomplished chefs too. 

Published by Penguin.