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Food Safari Fire
By (Author) Maeve O'Meara
Hardie Grant Books
Hardie Grant Books
1st December 2015
Hardback
Australia
General
Non Fiction
641.5
Hardback
288
Width 221mm, Height 275mm
1260g
From the phenomenally successful Food Safari series comes the perfect book for anyone who loves to grill, BBQ and cook from around the world.Tied into the new Food Safari television series, which aired in January 2016, this book is the perfect gift for the food lover in the house.Food Safari Fire features the inventive ways people from all over the world cook with fire. With this book, Maeve O'Meara invites you on a journey around the world of cuisines, meeting home cooks, pit masters and chefs from Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, who are all passionate advocates of cooking with fire.Cooking with fire goes way beyond the barbecue. Discover the pleasures of roasting on a spit, baking bread in ashes, smoking fish, roasting vegetables over hot coals, one pot cooking over an open fire, baking a roast in a wood-fired pizza oven, cooking Asian-style skewers on your BBQ, and seeing how a tandoori oven works. Food Safari Fire includes 90 recipes for cooking up a firestorm.Maeve elaborates on the regional ingredients and influences of the cuisines she visits throughout the book while explaining the techniques in a practical and accessible way, as she has in all her cookbooks. Whether you're a revered Argentine asador or someone who just loves to barbecue, this book speaks of a love of fire and eating caramelized crustiness caused by extreme heat. Full of sparks and flavours Maeves compilation of recipes explores age-old techniques and tools.
"Cooking over an open fire is one ofthis years most popular trends andthis latest book from the popular SBSfood series looks at everything frombaking in ashes to grilling over hotcoals." -Courier Mail
"a seductive premise and it'shard to pick one recipe overanother." -Country Style
"this volume will take your tastebudsaround the world as it uncovers thepleasures of baking in ashes, smokingfish, grilling over hot coals, cookingover an open flame and the secrets ofwood-fired ovens, tandoors andtajines." -Home Ideas
Maeve O'Meara's life revolves around food tasting, talking, writing, cooking, filming and simply reveling in the vast array of food and its many amazing incarnations amongst the cuisines of the world. An award-winning food and cooking author, journalist, broadcaster, television producer and presenter she has spent many years travelling and discovering food, only to find the most varied range of food on the planet right here in Australia!