Preview of Hardie Grant/Quadrille Spring 2024 Titles

February 5, 2024 by
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There are so many fantastic books scheduled for release this year and today I want to highlight the Spring 2024 Hardie Grant and Quadrille Publishing titles. Books are listed in the month they are being published for the first time anywhere. For example – Ho Jiak was published in January in Australia and will be released in the US in March. I’ll try to note when this type of thing occurs.

January 2024

Simply Chinese Feasts: Tasty Recipes for Friends and Family by Suzie Lee pulls the reader up a seat to the author’s table to explore the myriad Chinese celebrations, festivals and traditions, all of which centre around food and family. All the recipes have been designed for the home kitchen. Find out more in our giveaway post. 

The Complete Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon (revised edition of The Complete Asian Cookbook). This impressive tome covers 800 classic and contemporary dishes from fifteen countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, The Philippines, China, Korea and Japan) all keeping the home cook in mind. (January UK; March US)

Second Helpings: Transform Leftovers Into Delicious Dishes by Sue Quinn is packed with ingenious ways to use up bits and bobs in the fridge, half-empty packets in the larder, past-their-best fruit and veg as well leftovers from previous meals. This inspirational cookbook includes 100 recipes and ideas that showcase the most commonly wasted foods, such as bread, milk, cheese, potatoes, bananas, apples, salad leaves, leftover takeaways and previous meals. Second Helpings is the go-to cookbook for cooking up a feast, saving money and supporting the planet.  (January – UK; February – US)

Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia by Junda Khoo offers more than 100 staple dishes. This rich collection of recipes showcases a dynamic cuisine steeped in tradition, from street food classics to true homestyle cooking. Ho Jiak, translates to ‘good eats’ and is Khoo’s modern interpretation of Malaysian cuisine. Owning one of the best restaurants in Australia, Ho Jiak Town Hall, Khoo draws inspiration from the recipes passed down to him from his beloved amah (grandmother) as well as the street vendors of Malaysia. Now, he brings these authentic and vibrant dishes to our kitchens. (January – Australia – and March – US/UK)

Vegan Chinese Food by Yang Liu and Katharina Pinczolits: Founders of the hugely popular food blog Little Rice Noodle, the authors are known for their easy, delicious and plant-based Chinese recipes. Now, they are expanding their repertoire in their debut cookbook with 60 well-loved and diverse Chinese recipes using traditional cooking methods and skills – and veganizing it. Use everything from mushrooms to soy protein to imitate the duck in Peking duck or the mince in Dan Dan noodles. There’s a favorite recipe here for everyone.

FYI: Make it Vegan: Simple Plant-based Recipes for Everyone by Madeleine Olivia was published in the UK in December and was published in the US in January. This title provides plentiful options for mealtimes, making it easy for you to achieve and maintain a more plant-based lifestyle.

February 2024

Every Last Bite: Save Money, Time and Waste with 100 Recipes that Make the Most of Mealtimes by Rosie Sykes offers recipes, tips and practical advice for preparing fantastic food on a budget, with very little waste, and using minimal energy and resources. The author knows how to get the most flavor and value out of ingredients. Across 100 recipes she’ll show you how to plan, prepare and cook dishes with maximum taste but minimum cost.

Veggie Bowls: 80 Vibrant and Vegetarian One-Bowl Meals by Orathay Souksisavanh boasts more than 80 delicious recipes for healthy, veg-packed meals that can all be served up in a bowl. With a focus on how to layer up your bowl with an ‘edible rainbow’ you’ll be sure to get a balanced, nutritious, and most importantly, super tasty, meal every time.

Eat and Enjoy Gluten Free: Easy Meals, Brilliant Bakes and Delicious Desserts by Laura Strange features 100 recipes, and split into two sections – Meals for Everyone and Baking Up a Storm – the book will take you from breakfast right through to lunch and dinner as well as dessert recipes and advice on how to master baking basics to build your confidence until you’re turning out gluten free showstoppers. As well as recipes, Laura will demystify ingredients, such as xanthan gum and psyllium husk (magic ingredients for gluten free baking), and provide practical advice on living with coeliac disease, including avoiding cross contamination, meal planning, and money-saving tips.

Seriously Good Toast: Over 70 Recipes for the Best Ever Toast by Emily Kydd features every toast recipe you could ever need with recipes for breakfast, lunch, snacks and supper. Start your day with Eggs royale, sit down for a quick bite with Mozzarella and kale pesto or treat yourself to Tuna tartare. With over 70 super-simple recipes, plus a guide to bread basics and toasting, this is the ultimate cookbook for everyone who loves toast.

Healthiest Vegetables by Emily Ezekiel focuses on 15 of the most nutrient rich vegetables, including sweet potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, and kale and how to use these in 75 easy and delicious recipes. Each section is devoted to a vegetable and has a detailed chart with cooking methods and timing, photos of different varieties, and nutritional information. (February UK and March US)

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light by Caroline Eden is an updated edition of the 2018 title. Here, Caroline reflects on the events of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent impact of the war on the people of the wider region. How Odesa, defiant against shelling and blackouts, has gained UNESCO protection while in Istanbul, over lunch with a Bosphorus ship-spotter, she finds out about the role of the Black Sea in the war and how Russians are smuggling stolen grain from Ukraine. The majority of the update is narrative with one recipe at the beginning of the title. (November 2023 UK; February US)

At the Table in Paris: Recipes from the Best Cafés and Bistros in the City of Light by Jan Thorbecke Verlag invites readers to take a culinary stroll through the City of Light, along the Seine, over the Pont Neuf, to the Eiffel Tower, while taking little pit stops at street cafés to experience the food and drink on offer. With 40 typical French recipes, from breakfast right through to dinner and dessert, as well as information on what to do and where to go, this is a cookbook like no other. Discover the best green spaces to enjoy a picnic and feel inspired by time spent at the city’s famous bistros to whip up your own version of French classics. This gorgeous book celebrates all this city has to offer when it comes to food, drink, and must-see places.

Low- and No-alcohol Cocktails: 60 Delicious Drink Recipes for Any Time of Day by Matthias Giroud contains 60 alcohol-free or low-alcohol recipes that are sure to tantalize taste buds and get tongues wagging. Each cocktail is an experience built on flavor and scent and can be enjoyed throughout the day. In addition to the recipes, Matthias shares his manufacturing secrets, with detailed explanations on cold infusion with and without alcohol, how to prepare syrups and step by step instructions on how to decorate your cocktails with flourish. This book promises low- or no-alcohol beverages that truly deliver on taste.

Natural Cakes by Giovanna Torrico teaches novice and experienced bakers alike to make their favorite baked goods with plant-based food dyes, natural sweeteners, and whole grains. Cakes are the utmost symbol of celebration and add sweetness to our lives beyond the sugar used to make them. Natural food dyes like turmeric and beets lend supernatural hues to any batter or frosting. Buckwheat and brown rice flour give nuttiness and texture. And sweeteners like coconut sugar and date syrup add depth of flavor. With 70 recipes and easy swaps throughout, healthy doesn’t need to mean cutting out sugar, nor does it need to be lackluster.

The Kitchen Witch: Magical and Seasonal Bakes to Nourish Body and Spirit by Gail Bussi teaches us how to honor the process of baking, to appreciate each ingredient and to transform our favorite recipes into magical spells to benefit our minds, bodies, and souls. Learn to bake with intention and with the elements Earth, Fire, Water, and Air to create magical dishes including Saffron Moon Cake, Lavender Madeleines, and Sage and Camembert Wafers. And, woven in-between the recipes throughout, there will be other everyday magic rituals, ideas and inspiration, as well as encouragement to journal (in the book), creating your very own grimoire. (February – UK; March – US)

A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia: Vegetarian and Vegan Greek Kitchen Recipes by Kon Karapanagiotidis is a beautiful and inspiring Greek vegetarian and vegan cookbook. Featuring more than 100 recipes passed down through the generations, this book will teach you to cook with community at your heart, filled with the knowledge and wisdom of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s (ASRC) inspiring founder and his mother, Sia. ‘Philoxenia’ means to welcome a stranger. It’s a message that pervades Greek culture and cooking and something we all should inspire to do around the world. (October 2023 AU, February – UK, US)

March 2024

BBQ Companion: 180+ Barbecue Recipes From Around the World by Ben O’Donoghue (reissue of Ben’s BBQ Bible /BBQ Companion 180+ Barbecue Recipes From Around the World)

Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from My Filipino American Kitchen by Arlyn Osborne is a visually delicious collection that offers extraordinary flavor combinations with recipes that are as striking to behold as they are delicious to eat. Drawing on her mixed-race upbringing and bolstered by her years of professional recipe developing, Arlyn Osborne pairs classic Filipino flavors with Western techniques. This is a remarkable book and one I am most excited to spend time with.

The Little Book of Chocolate: Desserts: Make Your Own Desserts at Home by Melanie Dupuis tells us where chocolate comes from to how it is processed, as well as featuring over 15 chocolate dessert recipes such as Chocolate mousse, Milk chocolate pecan pie, Opera cake and Macaron dessert, you will master key skills to help you become a better at working with chocolate. This is a bite-sized masterclass in chocolate and every chocolate lover’s dream.

Cool Pasta: Reinventing the Pasta Salad by Tom Jackson: Pasta salads are back! The iconic dish for every occasion – hearty, healthy, portable, speedy and perfect for batch cooking. These 60 recipes will bring flavour and fun to your kitchen, with interesting textures, flavours, facts and histories alive in each recipe. Twists on classic dishes from around the world such as Spanikopasta, Cacio e pepperoni, Crispy pasta fattoush, Mapo pasta salad, Pakora pasta salad. Learn how to make the classic pasta salad feel like a new invention.

Good Eggs: 100 Cracking Ways to Cook and Elevate Eggs by Ed Smith is a compendium and celebration of eggs. 100 recipes and ideas will inspire a multitude of all-day plates that make eggs the star of the show. Whether you’re partial to boiled, fried, poached, baked or scrambled, in this book you’ll find all the eggspiration you need for delicious flavour combinations and techniques. There will be classics, reinventions of old favourites and surprising twists that will take your egg game to the next level.

Tiny Kitchen Feast: Plant-based Recipes from a Traveling Chef by Natalie Rodriguez is a collection of more than 60 plant-based recipes that were inspired by the place, people, and times that author and chef Natalie Rodriguez experienced living on the road. After more than 3 years’ experience as a ‘vanlifer’, Natalie hopes to not only share how bold, dynamic, and un-boring cooking in a tiny kitchen can be, but to also intertwine the lessons, tales, and life musings that will hopefully inspire the reader to not only eat well, but to live well.

Scorched: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Fish by Genevieve Taylor is a one-stop shop for recipes and practical advice that will help you get the most from cooking fish on your barbecue, beginning with the science of why we need to cook different types of fish in different ways and the physics of how fire works. Genevieve provides essential information about setting up your barbecue, sourcing your fuel and lighting your fire, and setting up your grill, with troubleshooting tips throughout. Full of succulent, colourful recipes, this title is the most useful, practical and comprehensive guide to grilling fish on the market. (March – UK; April – US)

Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice by Natalie Paull is an all-new compilation of colourful, creative recipes to delight fans and newcomers alike. These are the cakes and desserts Nat has loved to eat since closing her cult cafe and bakery in inner Melbourne in 2022. By popular demand, the book includes legendary bakes that were not in the hit original Beatrix Bakes (hello Lemon cream tart and Chocolate sour cream layer cake). It also features Beatrix baseix – think cream, custard and ganache – fruity bits and cake-cessories (honeycomb, toffee, streusel and spice), as well as the beloved Adaptrix tips for handy substitutions, all served in Nat’s signature style: warm, encouraging and firm when required. Bakers – you need both of Natalie’s books!

Cook by Karen Martini is the essential cookbook for the food you’re cooking at home today. Covering a generous breadth of cuisines and ingredients across well over 1000 recipes, this book bursts with Karen’s love of cooking, and the inspiring ideas and enduring principles that make her flavours timeless. With an acclaimed career spanning decades, and the influence of her Tunisian-Italian heritage, Karen has forged a path for female chefs and cooks across the country, and here she shares the hard-earned knowledge and experience for which she is famed. This expansive tome doesn’t just tell you what to cook but shows you how to cook, with insights into the foundations of flavour and practical advice on sourcing and surrounding yourself with quality, ethical ingredients and essential equipment – everything you need to make fantastic meals from the ground up. (August/September 2023 AU/UK, March 2024 US)

The following are other titles being released the first part of 2024. When the books arrive, I will update this post.

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