British born chef Darren Purchese is Australian patisserie royalty. If you are in Australia you will know of him. If you aren’t you will certainly have heard of Australian Masterchef, the globally watched show on which his complex creations have been set as tie-breaker challenges under his watchful eye and expert guidance. Find out more about Darren’s cookbooks and some of his favorite recipes in Cat Black’s author profile.
Read MoreDamien Pignolet has been an influential chef and teacher of cookery in Australia for more than four decades. He trained at the William Angliss College of Catering in Melbourne, and his long career as a chef in and around Sydney at restaurants including Pavilion in the Park, Claude's and Bistro Moncur in Woollahara. He is the author of two cookbooks, French and Salades, both now available in full on ckbk.
Read MoreChristine Manfield is one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs, and we are delighted to have six of her books now available on ckbk. In this exclusive author profile for ckbk, fellow chef and author Roberta Muir speaks to Christina about her career, her restaurants, and her cookbooks.
Read Moreckbk met with Rena Salaman, author of The Food and Cooking of Greece, to explore her favorite Greek dishes, culinary trends she finds intriguing, and her cherished childhood memories tied to Greek cuisine.
Read MoreMark Studley is a self-taught chef whose over-the-top burgers and street food have won many fans (and awards). He stumbled into the business almost by chance “I got fed up with paying money for rubbish food. I thought I could do it better”, and opened the Cow N Bun burger bar in Somerset. He now works as a private chef, and Dirty is his first cookbook. The book won private chef platform YHangry’s cookbook of the year award in 2022. ckbk co-founder Matt Cockerill spoke to the chef to understand the dirty ethos.
Read MoreValentine Warner is a chef, author and TV presenter, who achieved acclaim for What to Eat Now, a pair of TV series which focused on cooking with the seasons. We are delighted that four of Valentine's cookbooks are now available in full on ckbk. In this author profile, Gabriella English speaks to Warner about his style of cooking and how it has developed.
Read MoreA charismatic and influential British celebrity chef, Keith Floyd left an indelible mark on the culinary world. ckbk caught up with some of the people who worked with and have admired him over the years to get a flavor of the flamboyant figure who set the standard for TV shows and cookery book tie-ins after he burst onto TV screens in the 1980s.
Read Moreckbk met with author (and photographer) Saghar Setareh to talk about her new book, Pomegranates & Artichokes, published on 4 May. Read about how she overcame extraordinary challenges to produce a unique cookbook that explores the cuisines of Iran, Italy, and “In Between” (Eastern Mediterranean and Levantine cuisine).
Read MoreNick Malgieri is a baking expert and a true master of his craft. He has a long line of bestsellers under his belt, many of which are available now, or coming soon on ckbk. We met Malgieri to look back on an exceptional career and find out how he was able to throw off the early trauma of writing and discover his own style.
Read MoreRamona Andrews caught up with Sumayya Usmani to discuss her new title, Andaza: A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen, published today. Try her Chicken Boti Tikka, Bundoo Khan Style, and get a taste for her style of “andaza”, essentially “the art of sensory cooking”.
Read MoreThe latest new title to be added to ckbk is Simple and Delicious Vegan. Ramona Andrews caught up with the book’s author, social media superstar Michaela Vais, who blogs at Ela Vegan and has more than one million followers on Instagram.
Read MoreWhen pharmacist Ashley Madden was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her early twenties, she began to make drastic changes to her lifestyle and career, and looked deeply at the relationship between her food and her health.
Studies in holistic nutrition led her to develop a tasty repertoire of vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and oil-free recipes and to create a blog, Rise, Shine, Cook.
We caught up with Ashley to discover her top healthy dishes from her best-selling debut, The Plant-Based Cookbook, and to find out how she cuts through the noise around health and food.
Read MoreWith Maze: The Cookbook added to ckbk this week, we spoke to chef and restauranteur Jason Atherton to find out what it was like being part of a movement of chefs who fundamentally changed the way people think about food in the UK.
Read MoreTaste of Morocco is the third title by the late Robert Carrier to be added to ckbk. Carrier played a pioneering role in enthusiastically advocating good food to audiences in Britain and America in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and his books sold in their millions. He spent several months each year in Marrakesh, and Morocco held a special place in his heart. To mark the appearance of Taste of Morocco on ckbk, Luke Honey remembers the chef and his influence in this author profile.
Read MoreMax Halley created a storm in London’s food world with his radical rethinking of the sandwich. Trained as some of London’s best restaurants, he ditched his formal chef’s whites to open Max’s Sandwich Shop in 2014. The book which captured this entirely new take on the sandwich, written with chef pal Ben Benton, became a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller. As Max’s Sandwich Book comes to ckbk, we caught up with its outspoken author for his take on sandwiches and much more…
Read MoreSeasonal Salads by Fi Buchanan is published by Kitchen Press on January 5th 2023. The book, including 52 salad recipes to see you through every week of the year, is available in full on ckbk. We spoke to Fi about the year round joys of the salad bowl…
Read MoreBettina Campolucci Bordi is a chef, cooking teacher, and food writer specializing in plant-based recipes. She has written three cookbooks – 7 Day Vegan Challenge, Celebrate: Plant-Based Recipes for Every Occasion, and Happy Vegan Food – all available on ckbk. She tells us about her food influences and what she thinks about vegan sausage rolls…
Read MoreThree well-loved titles from Yotam Ottolenghi are now available on ckbk via our new à la carte feature. To mark the occasion, we take stock of Ottolenghi’s incredible influence on the world of food, and get to the hearty of what makes his cookbooks so universally compelling.
Read MoreKansas-born baker and educator Kristin Hoffman, author of Baker Bettie’s Better Baking Book, talks to ckbk about her culinary alter ego Baker Bettie, why science really matters in the kitchen, and why she believes it was important to publish her own in-depth cookbook.
Read MoreAuthor Eleanor Ford talks to ckbk about how she researched Fire Islands and The Nutmeg Trail, the enduring appeal of spices, and her work as a “culinary detective, finding clues from recipe names, methods, and tastes to trace their stories and ancient links.”
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