Penguin Books Australia

Michelle Bridges, expert trainer from The Biggest Loser and author of the best-selling Crunch Time , knows that confidence in the kitchen is the key to weight management. In the Crunch Time Cookbook she arms you with 100 simple, delicious recipes to help you lose the kilos and keep them off. But this is no ordinary cookbook. There's also:

Managing your diet is the key to controlling diabetes, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy your food.

The Gluten-free Kitchen is a collection of 100 new recipes from renowned dietitian Sue Shepard, author of the popular Gluten-free Cooking .   In every recipe, Sue's passion for flavour and her commitment to good nutrition shine through.   Home cooks will love her hearty soups and casseroles, spicy stir-fries, comforting side dishes and fabulous array of desserts and baked goods, and benefit...

Delicious gluten-free food

Tasty and adventurous meals are back on the menu.  Inside the Gluten Free Bible , you will find more than 130 recipes to enjoy – whether gluten intolerant or not.  Favourite foods such as pizza, pasta, noodle dishes, desserts and baked treats are no longer off limits.

In this superb recipe collection, Sue Shepherd proves that having a dietary condition, such as dairy, gluten or lactose intolerance, coeliac disease, fructose malabsorption or irritable bowel syndrome, does not mean having to miss out on the delights and adventures of a good food life.

Sue, a dietician with gourmet tastes and the skills to match, shows her readers how to use the correct ingredients...

Learn how to manage your diet with the Diabetes Cookbook

Managing your diet is the key to good diabetes control. With recipes for lunch, dinner and healthy snacks, The Diabetes Cookbook is guaranteed to tempt your taste buds and contribute to the health and well-being of everyone with diabetes.

Healthy, tasty, fabulous food that everybody can enjoy.

Alice Sherwood was thrown into the bewildering world of food allergies when her 2-year-old son was diagnosed with a severe nut and egg allergy. Frustrated with the bland allergy-free recipes on offer, she got to work in the kitchen to devise her own delicious dishes for the family.

'The first celebrity chef - a kind of Anglo/French Jamie Oliver'   Peter May

The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating.

Eating for Two: simply delicious recipes for a happy, healthy pregnancy by award-winning food writer Kathleen Gandy.

Pregnant? Confused about what to eat? What not to eat? What to cook when you're in the throes of morning sickness or tired after a long day at work?

A timely and powerful investigation of the food choices we make every day.

These days most people want to live as lightly as possible on our precious planet. What we choose to eat is a very basic decision, yet it has huge implications - for the sustainability of species, for the quality of the environment, for both human and animal rights and for the world's climate. And when we take the time to scrutinise...

Have your vegan cake and eat it, too! 

As a vegan, you know how challenging it can be to create light and flavorful breads, cakes, cookies, and other baked goods without using eggs, diary, or animal products of any kind.  And if you're not vegan but sill interested in eating healthier foods, you might be perplexed when it comes to swapping out the animal products.

What impact do food choices have on your health? Have you ever been curious as to where your food came from, who grew it, and the path it took to get to your table? Have you every wondered how much of each natural resource was used to produce your food—in other words, the soil-to-table environmental cost? In Whole Foods to Thrive, Brendan Brazier clearly explains how nutrient-dense, plant-based...