A Tasty Read: The Best New Cookbooks

Are you a closet gourmand in need of a bit of culinary inspiration? Get your chef on from the comfort of your own kitchen with these top new cookbooks, fresh on the shelves of your nearest bookstore.

Sous Vide At Home by Lisa Q Fetterman

Gone are the days when advanced cooking techniques were only available to top-shelf chefs and Michelin starred restaurants. Thanks to a surge in kitchen gadgets in recent years, home cooks can now reproduce professional results at home. Cooking sous vide (slow cooking in vacuum sealed bags using temperature controlled water) gives dishes incredible depth of flavour, and with 100 recipes to try, this book is the must-own guide to this technique. 

For The Love Of Meat by Matthew Evans

This carnivore carnival isn't just about chomping through as many meaty treats as you can. It also offers an informative look at sustainability, where to source high quality produce and ways of improving the impact of the meat industry on the environment, so you can have your fill with a clear conscience. There's also plenty to salivate over, including several recipes for that often-underrated national treasure, the humble roo.

Eat This, My Friend by Jade O'Donahoo

Being a vegetarian needn't mean a limited diet. This beautifully illustrated, accessibly written cookbook is packed with resourceful and savvy recipes for every meal of the day, from breakfast to dinner. Not only are these dishes entirely vegetarian, they also avoid unhealthy ingredients like refined sugar as well as taking other important nutritional issues in hand. Going vego never sounded so delicious.

The Seaweed Cookbook by Xa Milne

Move over kale, there's a new superfood in town. Seaweed is becoming increasingly popular for its versatility, its flavour and its tip top health benefits, including being rich in minerals and antioxidants. If you're still not sold on the idea of tucking into this wonder weed from the briny deep, these mouth-watering meals, including desserts (seaweed and banana ice cream anyone?), certainly make it a less daunting prospect.