Delicious, fresh and simple to cook

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Product Description

This work explores the whole food culture in Sydney, the trends, the fresh produce and exciting market scenes, the restaurants, cafes and the beachside eating society. Bill Granger highlights some of the wonderful spots in Sydney, where he shops for ingredients, and what inspires his recipes.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47370 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Whether or not you've visited Bill Granger's restaurants or even Sydney itself, this book cannot help but evoke images of a sunny city where urban hustle and bustle meets beautiful beaches. Though proud for not taking themselves too seriously, Aussies, in Sydney in particular, reserve considerable reverence for their food. Bill Granger is the owner of three Sydney restaurants and Sydney Food brings his famous flavours across the globe and into the your home in a stunning collection of recipes.

Bill starts by illustrating the rich abundance of ingredients available. In Sydney, home cooks and restaurateurs alike are spoilt for choice between the fish markets, incredible Thai and Vietnamese greengrocers, Italian delis, gourmet food halls, even the CBD fruit barrows. The recipes themselves are divided into Breakfasts, Lunches and Dinners. Unusually perhaps, it is the section of Breakfasts that's really enticing, demonstrating the varying European influences that affect this city's eating habits. Waking to blinding sunshine requires bold, fortifying flavours on the breakfast table. Recipes like Banana Maple Porridge with Buttered Apples, French Toast stuffed with Peaches, Toasted Coconut Waffles with Fresh Mango and Palm Syrup set the tone for a lazy weekend on the beach. The Lunch section is comprised of some of the most popular dishes from Bill's menus. These are largely restaurant classics but always with a twist, spring onion pancakes replacing the more conventional blinis with gravalax.

The multicultural mix doesn't abate in the Dinner section that moves from Asia to Italy, Grilled Beef with Blackbean to Parmesan Veal Schnitzel. The quintessentially Aussie offering comes in the (naturally barbecued) form of Barramundi with Fresh Herb Relish. The Australian inclination for reinvention is nowhere more apparent or more appealing than on their restaurant menus. Combining such an incredible range of ingredients, a rich cultural mix, a lack of pretension and an innate desire to do things "their way" has given the food of Sydney a worldwide reputation. Anyone who even glances at the recipes in this brilliant book will immediately understand why.--Rachel O'Connor

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Customer Reviews

Inspiring!
This has to be one of the best cookery books published in recent years. The recipes are simple - you do not need anything more than basic kitchen skills. Simple, however, does not mean boring - the recipes just leap off the page. I live up in the Northern Isles so the days are short and the nights are long but as soon as I started reading this book the sun came out! And best of all there are no (or hardly any) difficult or impossible to find ingredients. I have tried several of the recipes and they have all worked. I can also recommend the Granny Mac's shortbreads as can several of my friends. I loved the banana maple porridge, feta and potato pancakes and the spiced lentil salad with prawn and mint yoghurt dressing.

Most Amazing Cookbook EVER
This book just makes you want to try every single recipe. I love that everything is pictured beautifully so you get the idea of what it's supposed to look like!

I just made the puy lentil soup, parmesan toasts and granny mac's shortbreads - all completely delicious and very easy.

I fully recommend this book to people who want to feel like kitchen goddesses in no time at all.

SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed this book so much... good food that's simple to cook..thats the only way I can describe it. The pictures alone were enough to make me foam at the mouth (ok..maybe that's abit over the top);) but really the photos are beautifully taken..and the food tastes just as good. It's fresh, simple and very tasty!