Kate Gibbs

Journalist and author

https://www.kategibbs.com

Biography

Kate Gibbs is a Sydney-based journalist and author. She has ranted about food for delicious. magazine, Sunday Style, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Australian Gourmet Traveller and others. She writes a weekly food column in the Telegraph, and is a reviewer for delicious. magazine. Her latest and third book, Margaret and Me (2015, Murdoch Books), is a memoir that weaves contemporary food stories and those of her grandmother Margaret Fulton, plus 50 recipes. Kate is a food reviewer, chef wrangler and interviewer, storyteller and cook. She contributes travel and style stories to leading newspapers and magazines globally and travels most of the time in search of good food. She believes passionately in produce, not products, and is determined to get better at gardening, fermenting, and making food from scratch.

Heritage

Sean Brock

This stunning, relatively recent book reminds us "it begins in the dirt". It's a beautiful book that takes us into the garden, the mill, the yard, the pasture, the sea... It's a deeply personal book and I love the manifesto that basically says to do as little as possible to a perfect ingredient. The food itself is mostly from the US's Lowcountry, but the inspirations are more far reaching. Most of the recipes are quite challenging, but it's all inspiring and an interesting read as well.

Cooked

Michael Pollan

Only a small portion of this book has recipes, but it is a book that reminds us to cook, and why that is one of the most important things we can do for our health, the environment, our own spirits.

Plenty

Yotam Ottolenghi

Ottolenghi reminds us how vegetables can make the meal, and reignited an interest in Middle Eastern food.

The Margaret Fulton Cookbook

Margaret Fulton

Margaret showed the vast Australian population how to cook, that there is more to life than meat and three veg.

Thai Street Food

David Thompson

An evocative, beautiful and detailed account of Thai food, and Thailand. It keeps me away from jars of pastes and looking for new ingredients to cook and experiment with.

Chez Panisse Vegetables

Alice Waters

From grilled radicchio to shaved artichoke and grapefruit salad, Alice Waters' recipes are creative and delicious, turning the humble vegetable into a feast.

A Girl and Her Pig

April Bloomfield

Refreshingly unpretentious, remarkably beautiful recipes that focus on meat. It's accessible but aspirational and fun.

Pressure Cooker Recipes

Suzanne Gibbs

It's my mother's book but it remains one of my favourite cookbooks. It got me in to pressure cooking, which is the most sensible, delicious gadget I have in my kitchen. Lamb shoulder falling off the bone in 30 minutes, it's genius, and the recipes in this second pressure cooker book of Suzanne's are inspiring.

Food DIY

Tim Hayward

It's little known but I adore this practical book, with recipes that are both delicious and inventive. From curing to preserving and smoking, it has changed the way I cook.

Momofuku

David Chang and Peter Meehan