Author profile: Tony Bilson

Chef Tony Bilson was at the heart of high-end cuisine in Australia for several decades, with protegés including Neil Perry and Tetsuya Wakuda. We are pleased to add to ckbk both of Bilson’s best-known cookbooks, Tony Bilson’s Recipe Book and Fine Family Cooking, each of which showcase the range and quality of his cooking, and describe how his work was inspired by the classic French chefs. In this profile, Australian food writer Roberta Muir looks at Bilson’s impact on the Australian culinary scene, and picks out a personal selection of recipes from across his illustrious career.

Newsletter: Celebrating Neil Perry, Father’s Day and the arrival of strawberry season 🍓

We send congratulations to Regula Yswejin and Neil Perry on their latest awards, and welcome summer produce from the garden

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Author profile: Neil Perry

Neil Perry is a leading Australian chef with a career spanning 40+ years. Two more of his cookbooks (Rockpool and Simply Asian) have just been added to ckbk, where they join The Food I Love and Balance and Harmony. To mark the occasion, Roberta Muir caught up with the chef to discuss his cookbooks and his latest restaurant ventures in Sydney.

Behind the Cookbook: A Sardinian Cookbook, A Lombardian Cookbook and Wild Weed Pie

They say there are two types of people in the world: Italians and those who wish they were. Despite a very Italian first name, I fall firmly into the second group.

I’ve loved Italy since I spent six weeks backpacking down the Mediterranean coast from Rome to Sicily in the early 90s, discovering cacio e pepe pasta, buffalo mozzarella, authentic cannoli and Campari soda. I love its food, wine, architecture and history, but most of all I love its people and the way they embrace life and share it with whoever happens to be nearby, most often around the table.

Behind the Cookbook: The Blue Ribbon Cookbook

In this guest post, ckbk subscriber Francene Connor writes about a South Australian cookbook that is close to her heart: The Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Liz Harfull. Francene discusses the importance of community cookbooks and the vital role they play in preserving rural traditions and supporting local communities.

Q&A with Ann Reardon, author of Crazy Sweet Creations

Ann Reardon’s baking-focused YouTube Channel ‘How to Cook That’ has almost 5 million subscribers, so her debut cookbook, Crazy Sweet Creations (published in July 2021 ) was hotly anticipated. We spoke to Ann about her book, her path to becoming a YouTube cooking sensation, and some of the challenges that creators face on channels dominated by AI algorithms seeking maximum clicks.

Author ProfileckbkMarch 1, 2022Ann Reardon, Australia, Crazy Sweet Creations, YouTube

ckbk’s Australian collection: The evolution of a cuisine

To celebrate the arrival of The Bathers Pavillion cookbook on our virtual bookshelves, we’ve taken the opportunity to explore more Antipodean titles in ckbk’s collection and to highlight some of the region’s key chefs, recipes, restaurants, flavors, influences, and cooking trends.

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