Home

by Stephanie Alexander

Home is a collection of more than 200 original recipes by Stephanie Alexander. Each recipe is a finely crafted tribute to her passions and preferences for produce and flavour, and each reflects her consummate skill in communicating the fundamentals of technique.

There are detailed recipes for the more ambitious home cook, but also simple ways to combine beautiful ingredients to make dishes for everyday eating. Essays on people, places and experiences offer inspiration to readers looking to deepen their knowledge and appreciation of food.

Beautifully designed and photographed, Home is a celebration of the sensual and social delights of food and an essential addition to any kitchen shelf. The recipes - classic, masterful and delicious - will be cooked, shared and enjoyed for years to come.

This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

PRAISE FOR HOME

'Stephanie Alexander is one of the few chefs with the heart of a home every recipe she writes is infused with warmth, vibrancy, and a deep understanding of the pleasures of both cooking and eating; no kitchen should be without her. And behind each of her recipes is her vast knowledge and keen intelligence, which she shares so generously and with such clarity and economy. There is really no one to match an enthusiast for farm-to-fork eating and a well-seasoned enthusiast with a peerless palate, she has always been both a repository of tradition and yet always ahead of her time. I bow down before her!' - Nigella Lawson

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

419 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2021

About the author

Food and wine and friendship matter more than almost anything I can think of.

Who am I?

Food and wine and friendship matter more than almost anything I can think of. Together they involve skill and craft and patience, and understanding and appreciation of difference, and the desire to bring happiness to others. Brushing past scented leaves in a garden, looking over a vineyard with the vines glowing gold in autumn sunshine, picking parsley outside the back door, pulling a cork from a bottle of wine, cutting into a ripe cheese, appreciating a wonderful apple, setting out a picnic on a bush table, debating the questions of the universe over a fine wine… all these things seem to me to confirm our humanity and to make me want to live for another day, another meal. In the end, I still believe there is no greater joy than sharing food, conversation and laughter around a table.

In 2012 I will publish my memoir A Cook’s Life. Anyone who would like to know more about me will enjoy reading this book. There are many reminiscences and anecdotes in amongst the facts.

These days I spend most of my time supporting the team that makes the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation project function and grow. I also visit as many of our participating schools as I can and am delighted every time to be greeted by smiling faces and platters of delicious food.

Reviews

[Juanita Beck]

I was given this book as a birthday present and it’s taken some time to get through it as it’s much more than a cookbook. It’s filled with recipes, of course, but it’s also a wonderful biography of Stephanie Alexander and her family through food.

[Steph]

I admit I’m more of a reader than a cook so just read the stories and cooked zero recipes from this book. But I did take photos of a couple to cook later. (It was a library book; it’s not that I’m too lazy to walk to my own bookshelf.)

My namesake is very wholesome though I did roll my eyes during the part where she talks about everyone should be making homecooked meals every day because it’s so quick and easy, then features a recipe that involves hand-making fresh pastry just for the purpose of cooking some meat before throwing the pastry away?! What?! It felt startlingly out of touch with average Australians (or at least those with kids), who don’t have the time or money to make pastry only to chuck it in the bin.

Still nice overall, and with some new dishes to try.

[Highlyeccentric]

Got an excellent recipe for "popcorn lamb" out of this.