Winter already? Surely not! According to the folk at Women’s Weekly it could be. They have their Roast and Stew cookbooks out in March with a whopping total of 360 hearty recipes to warm the cockles. (ACP).

Kids getting on your nerves? Send them to create feasts in the kitchen with Kids Cooking for Health. Recipes include ‘minestrone with meatballs’ and could be the answer parents need for fussy eaters (ACP, May).

Here’s an ingenious way to solve a ‘what’s for tea?’ question from whiny teenagers, make a whole heap of dinners and freeze them! New Holland will release Frost Bite in April to ‘inspire you to cook in advance’ (Susan Austin).

Star Foods aim is to teach you about what food is good for you and why. Writers Dr Joanna McMillan and Judy Davie rank the foods into five star performers, star performers, good performers, reserves and liabilities, a great way to sort the wheat from the chaff! (ABC Books, April).

What do India, Morocco and Syria have in common? Feast Bazaar by Barry Vera. It includes recipes from these three exotic lands and information about traditional cooking methods (Murdoch Books, February).

Terrines - those small, delicate dishes that you wouldn’t have a clue how to start? Guess no more with Terrine by Stephane Reynaud
(Phaidon, March). She makes it sound easy as pie … or terrine!

More wine? Yes please! Hardie Grant has The Big Red Wine Book out in May, which covers 1500 varieties and in time to get cosy and dozy for winter … (Campbell Mattinson)

This article from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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