Matt PrestonSimple Secrets & Star Fish - Top 10 Sustainable Fish (2 Books)

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We realise these 2 cookbooks don’t have very much in common – but you must admit, they look really good together. We promise you’ll love them.

Matt Preston is the author of four best-selling cookbooks and is well known in Australia and internationally, as a judge and co-host on 9 series of the extremely popular MasterChef Australia (total worldwide audience of 180 million), as well as on Junior MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef, MasterChef: The Professionals, and MasterChef Allstars. The Australian food critic and journalist, TV personality and recipe writer, is also known for his weekly national food column in NewsCorp's metro newspapers, which together with the Masterchef series, has a combined reach of over 2.9 million Australians per week. He is also a senior editor for Taste and Delicious. magazines. In his book he will share his 'Secrets to Cooking Everything Better.
'Starfish', is a surprisingly funny, surprisingly fascinating read. Author Daisy Jones takes you on an epic road trip to meet the farmers, conservationists, fishermen and scientists who will protect the top ten most sustainable fish in the years to come. The lip-smackingly good recipes in this book use only the top ten most sustainable fish off the SASSI (SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative) green list, so you can serve up delicious fish dishes without any guilt.

Starfish - Top 10 sustainable fish by Daisy Jones

Go ahead. Feel smug. With Star Fish in your hands, there will no longer be anything fishy about the seafood meals you produce. In fact, the lip-smackingly good recipes in this book use only the top ten most sustainable fish off the SASSI (SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative) green list. In this surprisingly funny, surprisingly fascinating read, author Daisy Jones takes you on an epic road trip to meet the farmers, conservationists, fishermen and scientists who will protect the top ten in the years to come. You’ll visit a oyster farmer in a wasteland on the West Coast and a high-heeled SASSI scientist. You’ll meet an abundantly bearded kabeljou farmer in Paternoster, a third-generation treknetter in Fish Hoek and an Irish-accented aquaculturist in East London. Daisy has conducted hours of interviews on boats, rafts and on farms to find out why her top ten are not in danger of overfishing and why catching them does no damage to the environment. The chapters on each fish, and the paintings and illustrations that accompany them, will secure the top ten in your memory - a phenomenon sure to come in handy when you shop or dine out sans SASSI checklist. The recipes at the end of each chapter, gorgeously photographed by Craig Fraser, tempt those of us in the habit of opting for white linefish and prawns to try something meatier (yellowtail), oilier (sardines) or slurpier (mussels). A chart at the end of the book provides green alternatives to orange- and red-listed fish - both local and overseas varieties. There’s a word on SASSI, a word on the MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) and a word on the state of our oceans. It’s an adventure, switching to green fish. And it’s the right thing to do.

The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better by Matt Preston

Every great home cook needs a go-to list of delicious, fail-safe recipes, from the perfect crispy hassle back potatoes to the ultimate roast pork with crackling and the foolproof cheesecake that will have people requesting the recipe every time. Nobody is better qualified than Matt Preston to bring you this kind of knowledge, to share with you the secrets to cooking everything better. Matt reveals here for the first time the secrets and tips he has picked up over his many year's food writing, TV presenting and working alongside some of the greatest cooks of our time - be they CWA matriarchs or Marco Pierre White. These are the building blocks for better cooking and they've never been easier to master.