Following the phenomenal local and international success of her 2010 cookbook Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook, which was named Best TV Cookbook at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Annabel returns to her idyllic lakeside cabin to cook up an exciting new batch of recipes using seasonal ingredients from her kitchen garden.

True to her philosophy that quality natural ingredients need little in the way of fussy preparation, her new book is entitled Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures. Inside, luscious photos of Annabel’s home-cooked food are interspersed with equally inspiring images of her verdant vegetable garden and orchard, and the gorgeous natural landscapes of the scenic South Island.

As well as more than 200 delicious recipes, all easily achievable by the home cook, the book features menu suggestions drawn from the accompanying TV series, plus Annabel’s musings on living well in today’s fast-paced world. It is interactive with Annabel’s website annabel-langbein.com, with QR codes on many recipes linking the reader to a video of Annabel making that recipe or sharing her tips for simplifying tricky techniques.

With this exciting new book from Annabel Langbein, you are invited to take time out from your busy schedule to savour life’s simple pleasures.

Hard cover, 320 pages, full-colour photography throughout. See also Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook

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If you loved Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook, you’ll adore this new collection of over 220 delicious recipes. Annabel invites you into her city home and shows how her free range cooking style can help you create a sustainable lifestyle wherever you live. With menus for every occasion, Annabel Langbein Free Range in the City is more than just a cookbook – it’s a recipe for living well in today’s busy world. 

Hard cover (padded), 320 pages, full-colour photography throughout, same size as Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook

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The best-selling companion to the television series of the same name, this beautiful and inspirational cookbook shares the secrets to cooking great food in a simple, natural way. Photographed around Annabel's lakeside cabin in the South Island of New Zealand, Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook is much more than a recipe book. Alongside the photographs of fresh, seasonal dishes, gorgeous images transport the reader into Annabel's country life - where she cooks on a simple double gas burner and chops wood to fuel an outdoor bread oven.

Recipes are organised according to their source - From the Garden, From the Farm, From the Oven, From the Larder, From the Orchard and From Lake and Sea - and interspersed throughout the book are delicious menus taken from the television series that provide three or four impressive courses to share with friends and family. Thanks to Annabel's clever cooking tricks and techniques, home cooks are offered the chance to recreate restaurant-style dishes you might once have thought were too difficult or time consuming. With Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook you're sure to be a star in your own kitchen!

Hard cover, 320 pages, full-colour photography throughout. See also Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook DVD.

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The ever-popular The Best of Annabel Langbein - Great food for busy lives is the essential kitchen handbook for modern living. Annabel is renowned for her delicious recipes that are quick and easy to make. The 600-plus recipes in this book are accessible and innovative and will inspire cooks of all abilities to create everything from breakfasts and brunches, appetisers, soups and salads to desserts, baking and preserves.

Things can sometimes go wrong in the kitchen but Annabel's down-to-earth, no-fuss approach draws on a lifetime of cooking skills to demystify the processes and inspire confidence in her readers.

Soft cover, 320 pages with more than 600 recipes, full-colour photography throughout.

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This book is a celebration of the ingredients and traditions of the Italian table. Enticing, simple recipes are nestled between stories of the people Annabel Langbein met on her journeys through Italy. Coupled with information covering the many wonderful ingredients of Italian cooking and some of Italy's rich cooking history, this book makes for a delectable culinary journey.

Annabel is noted for her practical, accessible approach to food and here she presents Italian food in the same way. This book presents a visual feast of recipes that encapsulate the Italian day - delicious, easy-to-prepare food for all times and occasions.

Soft cover, 160 pages, full-colour photography throughout.

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This book explores the ingredients of the Pacific and the vibrant new cuisine they have inspired. More than an exciting recipe collection, it unearths the fascinating lore and history behind the Pacific kitchen, and shows how to use and enjoy the exotic ingredients and flavours of the Pacific we now find readily available on our doorstep.

This mouth-watering book is divided by the time of day, starting with the break of dawn and concluding at dusk, presenting the new cooking of the Pacific at its best - fresh, simple, light and bursting with vibrant flavours. Suited to cooks of all levels, it draws on the fresh palate of the Pacific. Winner at the World Cookbook Awards 2000.

Soft cover, 160 pages, full-colour photography throughout.

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