MasterChef Cookbook Vol 2
December 9th 2010 02:32
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MasterChef Australia Volume Two: The Cookbook
Publication date: 1 December 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780732291860
Imprint: HarperCollins
Poh's Kitchen - My cooking adventures
Publication date: 1 November 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780733328305
Imprint: ABC Books
French Kitchen; classic recipes for home cooks
Publication date: 1 November 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780733326196
Imprint: ABC Books
MasterChef series 2 became compulsory viewing for Australian households, with over 4 million people tuning in for the final episode, unfortunately the producers fast tracked the children's version of the show, and killed it dead. Why they didn't consider what was working, and stick with it - rather than try to convince us all to stuff ourselves stupid on a bastardised version of the show I'll never understand. I really enjoyed watching MasterChef the first time around and could understand the popularity of it because we all have to maintain a relationship with food don't we? It is more appealing than girls and geeks, unwed farmers, being trapped in a house etc...
Over the course of fourteen weeks, people watched the original contestants cook their way through signature dishes, pressure tests, mystery boxes and invention tests. Then they placed the crown on Julie Goodwin's head and we were all pretty well delighted. The secon series came along and drew fair attention, but there was such a thick media swill attached to it - the media relationship between tv and newspapers kills more than they'll ever understand.
If I watch it on television, chances are I don't want to then be reading about it ad infinitum in the daily papers - I don't like overkill, and I want newspapers to have actual news in them, not a reworked paragraph from a press release that's making a band-wagon out of a wagon-train, if you get my drift.
So any way, all of this distracts from the main MasterChef ingredient - the food!! Now here's your chance to cook and taste the dishes that enticed, thrilled or just plain baffled you with their brilliance.
From winner Adam Liaw, runner-up Callum and favourites Courtney, Jonathan and Marion, to celebrity chefs Neil Perry, Matt Moran and Luke Nguyen, and judges Gary and George (they seem like a married couple, not quite sure if they are), all the standout recipes have been brought together in this Volume 2 MasterChef Australia, just in time for Christmas.
With simple step-by-step instructions, handy hints and photographs to help you master the finer points of technique, every cook book on the market offers something new, this one included, but what is it? Well I've been looking at a selection of books to try and compare them. It is personality and the interactions between the food and the cook that stand out for me. The insights one cook may have as compared to another directing through the same dish, fascinating. Poh's Kitchen - My cooking adventures is a great example. Hers is a whole new area of cookery on our doorstep, and Poh sells it with style and personality.
I would happily keep going out and exploring new volumes of MasterChef, but I will not spend the rest of my television watching time looking at the program unless they stick with the original format and remain within the realms of dealing with adults. Not interested in kids in the kitchen at all.
Publication date: 1 December 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780732291860
Imprint: HarperCollins
Poh's Kitchen - My cooking adventures
Publication date: 1 November 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780733328305
Imprint: ABC Books
French Kitchen; classic recipes for home cooks
Publication date: 1 November 2010
ARP: $39.99
ISBN: 9780733326196
Imprint: ABC Books
Over the course of fourteen weeks, people watched the original contestants cook their way through signature dishes, pressure tests, mystery boxes and invention tests. Then they placed the crown on Julie Goodwin's head and we were all pretty well delighted. The secon series came along and drew fair attention, but there was such a thick media swill attached to it - the media relationship between tv and newspapers kills more than they'll ever understand.
If I watch it on television, chances are I don't want to then be reading about it ad infinitum in the daily papers - I don't like overkill, and I want newspapers to have actual news in them, not a reworked paragraph from a press release that's making a band-wagon out of a wagon-train, if you get my drift.
So any way, all of this distracts from the main MasterChef ingredient - the food!! Now here's your chance to cook and taste the dishes that enticed, thrilled or just plain baffled you with their brilliance.
From winner Adam Liaw, runner-up Callum and favourites Courtney, Jonathan and Marion, to celebrity chefs Neil Perry, Matt Moran and Luke Nguyen, and judges Gary and George (they seem like a married couple, not quite sure if they are), all the standout recipes have been brought together in this Volume 2 MasterChef Australia, just in time for Christmas.
With simple step-by-step instructions, handy hints and photographs to help you master the finer points of technique, every cook book on the market offers something new, this one included, but what is it? Well I've been looking at a selection of books to try and compare them. It is personality and the interactions between the food and the cook that stand out for me. The insights one cook may have as compared to another directing through the same dish, fascinating. Poh's Kitchen - My cooking adventures is a great example. Hers is a whole new area of cookery on our doorstep, and Poh sells it with style and personality.
I would happily keep going out and exploring new volumes of MasterChef, but I will not spend the rest of my television watching time looking at the program unless they stick with the original format and remain within the realms of dealing with adults. Not interested in kids in the kitchen at all.
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