Written by the most respected authorities on seafood in the country, this landmark publication contains all you need to know about selecting and preparing over 60 types of fish and seafood, including catching methods, notes on sustainability, flavour profiles and cooking guidelines. More than 130 recipes showcase the delicious potential of the vast array of seafood available, and clear step-by-step photography illustrating the key techniques takes all the guesswork out of cooking seafood at home. Accompanied throughout by striking imagery, this important book is as beautiful as it is informative, and will become the benchmark reference for anyone interested in cooking and eating fish and seafood. 'The bible for seafood. The only book you'll ever need on the topic.' Neil Perry 'A book Australia not only wants, but needs, written by the only people in the country truly equipped to tackle the task. Essential.' John Lethlean
The Making Of A Chef takes us through the highs and lows of Lukes career and gives us insight into the life of a working chef, beyond the glamour and glitz and into the making of todays celebrity the chef. Luke Mangan is today recognised internationally as one of Australias leading chefs and restaurateurs a long way from the precocious schoolboy who wouldnt do his schoolwork and the youngest in a large rough-and-tumble family of seven boys growing up in Melbourne. But from these early days Luke was always drawn to cooking and his sense of achievement and passion for food set him on a determined path. In The Making of a Chef Luke tells us of his career-forming days under the tutelage of the tough but great chef Herman Schneider of Two Faces restaurant fame, and his quest to work with the best chefs in Europe to learn all he could about the art of food.
A fascinating collection of personal accounts of operating Britain’s first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew. Valiant Boys tells the story from the aircraft’s birth, taking off from Vickers’ tiny airfield at Wisley near Brooklands, to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the middle of the Pacific, and attacking airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt during the Suez campaign. We are reminded of how the Valiant provided the UK’s first nuclear deterrent by always having some armed aircraft on stand-by twenty-four hours a day, supported by their air and ground crews, ready to be flown at a moment’s notice on a one-way trip to launch an atomic war. Some Valiants were given a photographic role providing accurate images from high altitude and were used not only to gather military intelligence but also to survey the UK and countries overseas. Others were developed into flight refueling tankers, breaking point to point records before enabling Britain’s fighter aircraft to be refueled and fly anywhere in the world. Valiant Boys completes Tony Blackman’s trilogy of the three V bombers. As Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Michael Beetham makes it clear in his foreword, “It is good to have a book written by aircrew and ground crew telling their stories and how they operated the aircraft so that all these things are recorded and not forgotten.” Not as well-known as the Vulcan and Victor, the Valiant is often overlooked; this book will change that.
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