Homecooked Feasts - Maggie Beer and Valli Little New softcover cookbook Australian celebrations

HOMECOOKED FEASTS

Favourite celebratory recipes from Australian kitchens

by MAGGIE BEER and VALLI LITTLE

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New softover book, 232 pages, published November 2008. Foreword by Ian 'Macca' McNamara

A treasury of heart-warming stories and over 100 celebratory recipes from ABC Local Radio listeners all over Australia, selected by Valli Little and Maggie Beer, recipes for family feasts that will make everyday special.

Everyone has a favourite recipe for a special occasion, whether handed down from generation to generation or discovered anew. In Homecooked Feasts ABC Local Radio listeners share with you 150 of their favourite dishes and the heart-warming stories that surround them.

Selected by Maggie Beer and Valli Little, this book contains great recipes from family feasts, including weddings, birthdays, christenings, anniversaries, Australia Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's and Father's Day, Halloween and Christmas. From Irish Spiced Beef to Nana's Shortbread, Chicken and Chorizo Casserole to Danish Cherry, Almond and Rice Christmas Pudding, this delightful treasury is both a celebration of Australian home-cooking, and a resource for cooks who want to make everyday meals special.

This recipe book is an Australian publication. All measurements are in metric. Recipes are arranged by 'celebration' - Christmas, Australia Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day, Birthdays and Anniversaries, Weddings and Homecomings. Also includes an extensive index and delighful, informative snippets on where the recipes came from.

About the authors:

Maggie Beer is an internationally renowned author, restaurateur and cook. Her Barossa Farm products retail in all good food and department stores. She co-presents ABC TV's The Cook and the Chef with Simon Bryant. Maggie is also a longstanding contributor of food columns to newspapers and magazines.

Maggie has written and co-written many well-loved cookbooks, including Maggie's Farm, Maggie's Orchard, Maggie's Harvest, Maggie's Kitchen, Maggie's Table, Cooking with Verjuice, and Stephanie Alexander & Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cookbook.

Valli Little is the Food Editor of delicious. magazine and the author of the bestsellers 5 of the Best, 5 Days a Week and the recently-published Faking It

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Homecooked Feasts by Maggie Beer and Valli Little