Penguin Books Australia

Lantern is proud to publish some of Australia's most celebrated cooks and chefs. Now, in a new series of indispensable books for your kitchen bookshelf, Lantern Cookery Classics brings you timeless recipes from these much-loved authors. Each book has more than sixty recipes – all photographed, and with clear instructions to help you achieve a great result every time.

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Maggie Beer is a long-time resident of South Australia's Barossa Valley. She is deeply involved in the food culture of the area as a producer, chef and enthusiastic champion of all the Valley has to offer.

From Maggie Beer's own kitchen come 120 favourite recipes she has shared with her television audience, as well as the everyday basics Maggie believes form the foundations of a good food life. With her trademark warmth and finely honed knowledge, Maggie shows us how to get the best out of our ingredients so that every meal is as memorable as it is simple to prepare.

Travel with Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer to the sunlit hills of Tuscany.  Join their cooking classes run from a villa amid the vineyards, and find out how to live in a place where the pleasures of the table are the key to daily life.  Learn how to cook and ear by the seasons in one of the world's great food regions and through the eyes of two of our most accomplished cooks and food...

Verjuice was once a staple of French provincial cooking and is now enjoying a worldwide renaissance. It has the tartness of lemon juice and the acidity of vinegar without the harshness of either, which makes it an extraordinarily versatile ingredient. Particularly useful in sauces and dressings and when deglazing a pan, verjuice can also be used to make luscious sweet syrups to serve with desserts...