Learn some new recipes with these delicious summer cookbooks

Get creative in the kitchen or outside on the barbecue with some tasty new summer recipes! We always have the latest cookbooks coming in so you can impress your friends or just enjoy some quick comfort food. 

Make the most of the warm nights with some party treats from Batch cocktails or Beer snacks, and let The camping cookbook take your campfire food to the next level.

You will enjoy eating your greens with The complete vegan, Mob veggie, Rose Elliot’s complete vegan and Super green super easy. 

Cook up a taste of summer with The island kitchen, Aloha kitchen or Mediterranean lifestyle cooking and enjoy loads of new Women's Weekly favourites, edited by Sophia Young.

Reserve your favourites or come in a browse our extensive range of cookbooks at all library branches. 

Summer cookbooks 2020

• Bronte at home by Brontë Aurell
• Saffron & sumac : feasting at the Middle Eastern table by Ghillie Baan
• Clean-eating breakfast and lunches made simple by Lacey Baier
• Mary Berry cooks up a feast by Mary Berry
• Indian in 7: delicious Indian recipes in 7 ingredients or fewer by Monisha Bharadwaj
• Batch cooking by Keda Black
• The Mexican keto cookbook by Torie Borrelli
• CSIRO Low carb diet quick and easy by Professor Grant Brinkworth and Dr Pennie Taylor
• The Blue Zones kitchen : 100 recipes to live to 100 by Dan Buettner
• Sunny-side up by Susan Calman
• The 4 phase histamine reset plan by Becky Campbell
• Incredible plant based desserts by Anthea Cheng
• Vegan snacks by Elanor Clarke
• Sour: the magical element that will transform your cooking by Mark Diacono
• Thank you for smoking by Paula Disbrowe
• The food of Sichuan by Fuschia Dunlop
• The commons by Matthew Edwards
• Rose Elliot’s complete vegan by Rose Elliot
• One-pot vegetarian by Sabrina Fauda-Rôle
• Slow cooked paleo by Bailey Fischer
• Raw food by Anat Fritz
• Food artisans of Japan by Nancy Singleton Hacisu
• The Lebanese cookbook by Salma Hage
• Eat drink and still shrink by Michele Chevalley Hedge
• Eat more vegan! by Luke Hines
• Batch cocktails by Maggie Hoffman
• Food52 dynamite chicken : 60 never-boring recipes for your favorite bird by Tyler Kord
• Atsuko’s Japanese kitchen by Atsuko Ikeda
• Judy Joo’s Korean soul food by Judy Joo
• Gloriously gluten free by Frédérique Jules
• Jerusalem food : bold flavors from the Middle East and beyond by Nidal Kersh
• The Jewish cookbook by Leah Koenig
• Aloha kitchen by Alana Kysar
• Cakes for kids by Juliette Lalbaltry
• Mob veggie by Ben Lebus
• Rustic French cooking made easy by Audrey Le Goff
• The camping cookbook by Viola Lex and Nico Stanitzok
• 4 ingredients more gluten free lactose free by Kim McCosker
• Community: salad recipes from Arthur Street kitchen by Hetty McKinnon
• Keto life by Sahil Makhija
• I can cook vegan by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
• Whole food cooking everyday by Elise Museles
• The complete vegan by the Natural Gourmet Institute
• Cooking with the oldest foods on earth: Australian native foods by John Newton
•  Super green super easy by Sally Obermeder and Maha Corbett
• Five seasons of jam by Lillie O'Brien
• The gaijin cookbook : Japanese recipes from a chef, father, eater, and lifelong outsider by Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying
• The island kitchen by Selina Periampillai
• Marriage of flavours by Scott Pickett
• Tartine: a classic revisited, with 100 recipes updated for modern bakers by Elisabeth M. Prueitt
• Summer fresh: the best of the best recipes from Australia's #1 food site by Imogen Rafferty
• Nothing fancy: unfussy food for having people over by Alison Roman
•  Bake Australia great by Katherine Sabbath
• Coya: French Middle Eastern cuisine by Ashraf Saleh
• Keto for life: reset your biological clock in 21 days and optimize your diet for longevity by Mark Sisson 
• Beer snacks by Oscar Smith
• East: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha
• Rick Stein’s Secret France by Rick Stein
• Friendly food by Dr. Anne Swain
• Modern Australian Flexitarian by Lucy Gwendoline Taylor
• Mediterranean lifestyle cooking by Mary Valle
• Happy curries by Rebecca Seal and John Vincent
• The veggie Chinese takeaway cookbook by Kwoklyn Wan
• Asian noodles: 86 classic recipes from Vietnam, Thailand, China, Korea and Japan by Maki Watanabe
• Cook, eat, run: cook fast, boost performance with over 75 ultimate recipes for runners by Charlie Watson
• A flash in the pan by John Whaite
• The edible garden by Paul West
• Basics: the complete collection ed. Sophia Young 
• Healthy food everyday ed. Sophia Young
• Low carb clean eating ed. Sophia Young
• The slow cooking collection ed. Sophia Young 
• Stews and casseroles ed. Sophia Young
• Warmin one pots ed. Sophia Young 
• Vegan in 30 minutes ed. Sophia Young
• Venetian republic by Nino Zoccali    

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