Food Safari Fire

Description

From the phenomenally successful Food Safari series comes the perfect book for anyone who loves to grill, BBQ and cook from around the world. Tied into the new Food Safari television series, which aired in January 2016, this book is the perfect gift for the food lover in the house. Food Safari Fire features the inventive ways people from all over the world cook with fire. With this book, Maeve O'Meara invites you on a journey around the world of cuisines, meeting home cooks, pit masters and chefs from Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, who are all passionate advocates of cooking with fire. Cooking with fire goes way beyond the barbecue. Discover the pleasures of roasting on a spit, baking bread in ashes, smoking fish, roasting vegetables over hot coals, one pot cooking over an open fire, baking a roast in a wood-fired pizza oven, cooking Asian-style skewers on your BBQ, and seeing how a tandoori oven works. Food Safari Fire includes 90 recipes for cooking up a firestorm. Maeve elaborates on the regional ingredients and influences of the cuisines she visits throughout the book while explaining the techniques in a practical and accessible way, as she has in all her cookbooks. Whether you're a revered Argentine asador or someone who just loves to barbecue, this book speaks of a love of fire and eating caramelized crustiness caused by extreme heat. Full of sparks and flavours Maeve's compilation of recipes explores age-old techniques and tools.

Maeve O'Meara's life revolves around food tasting, talking, writing, cooking, filming and simply reveling in the vast array of food and its many amazing incarnations amongst the cuisines of the world. An award-winning food and cooking author, journalist, broadcaster, television producer and presenter she has spent many years travelling and discovering food, only to find the most varied range of food on the planet right here in Australia!

"Cooking over an open fire is one of this year's most popular trends and this latest book from the popular SBS food series looks at everything from baking in ashes to grilling over hot coals." - Courier Mail"a seductive premise and it's hard to pick one recipe over another." - Country Style "this volume will take your tastebuds around the world as it uncovers the pleasures of baking in ashes, smoking fish, grilling over hot coals, cooking over an open flame and the secrets of wood-fired ovens, tandoors and tajines." - Home Ideas "With recipes and tips from home cooks, pit masters and chefs, including Tetsuya Wakuda, Adam D'Sylva, Guy Grossi, Frank Camorra and more, Food Safari Fire will have readers cooking up a firestorm." - Molong Online "Discover the pleasures of baking in ashes, smoking fish, grilling over hot coals, one-pot cooking on an open flame, roasting in a wood-fired oven and the impressive heat of tandoors at work." - Molong Online