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  • This is not a recipe book
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    This is not a recipe book

    Making and assembling a dessert is a journey. It's a considered process, a visual translation of culinary thoughts, and a transformation of an idea to a 2D plan and finally a 3D reality. Most of us own a collection of recipe books and some of them are...
    $161.00

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  • Unusual Wines
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    Unusual Wines

    Volcanic vineyards listed as UNESCO World Heritage, a peace wine blending over 600 varieties from around the world, vines standing 15 metres tall in Italy and Portugal, ice wines from Quebec, a wine from the Gobi desert, Taiwan's huge yields, harvesting...
    $55.00

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  • Food for Friends
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    Food for Friends

    A memoir from one of Australia's most prominent lifestyle influencers, Babette Hays edited Belle and wrote several books on Australian food and house style. This book touches on her life from Damascus to Europe to Australia in the 1960s, and offers some...
    $29.95

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  • A Rich and Tantalizing Brew
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    A Rich and Tantalizing Brew

    The history of coffee is much more than the tale of one nonessential good-it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world history, from food and foodways to religion and economics and sociocultural history. A Rich and Tantalizing Brew...
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  • Foolproof Christmas
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    Foolproof Christmas

    Easy-to-make recipes for new cooks, newlyweds and families on the go at Christmastime! Updated with 22 photos and packed with sweet Christmas memories as well as recipes. Christmas is coming! Swirling snowflakes have us reaching for our coziest scarves...
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  • The Heart of Christmas Recipes
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    The Heart of Christmas Recipes

    Treasured family recipes that are the heart of the season. We all have so much to do during the Christmas season...cookies to bake, gifts to wrap and of course, ornaments to hang on the tree! But our favorite part of Christmas is making memories with...
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  • Come on Over Cookbook
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    Come on Over Cookbook

    You're invited! Come as you are...we've made it so easy for you to make simple meals special and special meals simple! Inside Come On Over you'll find tried & true recipes, effortless decorating how-to's, handy timesaving tips and great ideas for...
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  • Mom's Very Best Recipes
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    Mom's Very Best Recipes

    Back by popular demand and updated with 20 photos! Are there any recipes we love more than those passed down from Mom? Mom's Very Best Recipes is filled with reliable old favorites as well as recipes from today's Mom, who knows all the tricks for putting...
    $19.99

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  • Moms Go-To Recipes
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    Moms Go-To Recipes

    Updated with 22 photos! As busy moms, we love sitting down to a home-cooked meal with our families, don't you? It can be a challenge to serve up taste-tempting, healthy meals that will please everyone, but we think we have the answer. Mom's Go-To Recipes...
    $33.99

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  • Classic Church Potluck Recipes
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    Classic Church Potluck Recipes

    For Church Potluck Favorites, cooks from across the country have shared their best-loved recipes with us. If you're looking for something new to take to the next carry-in, or simply want a little variety for your family's meals, you'll find just the...
    $33.99

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  • Mom's Best Sunday Suppers
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    Mom's Best Sunday Suppers

    Are there any recipes we love more than those passed down from Mom? Filled with reliable old favorites as well as recipes from today's Mom, who knows all the tricks for putting a yummy supper on the table! Also enjoy the quick & easy kitchen tips,...
    $31.99

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  • Christmas with Family & Friends
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    Christmas with Family & Friends

    Welcoming family & friends inside our warm & cozy kitchens is one of our favorite things about the holidays! We love the aroma of warm gingerbread cookies, the fresh scent of pine and mugs of homemade chocolatey cocoa. There's such excitement as we count...
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  • Christmas at Grandma's
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    Christmas at Grandma's

    Updated with 21 mouth-watering seasonal photos. Snowflakes are swirling, carolers are singing and shoppers are crowding into shops...Christmas is coming! If you're like us, you'd love to recreate the holiday magic you remember from Grandma's home, but...
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  • A Very Merry Christmas Cookbook
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    A Very Merry Christmas Cookbook

    For a festive brunch, Country Club Eggs and Apricot-Almond Coffee Cake are sure to please. On snowy days, treat the kids to Gingerbread Pancakes and Christmas Cocoa. Warm 'em up at lunchtime with Lela's Beef & Vegetable Soup. Easy main dishes like Quick...
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  • Autumn Recipes from the Farmhouse
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    Autumn Recipes from the Farmhouse

    We've gathered over 220 easy recipes from home cooks just like you. Get the day off to a great start with Pumpkin French Toast...yum! At lunchtime, a big kettle of nutritious Farmstand Vegetable Soup and a basket of Cheddar Garlic Bread Sticks will warm...
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  • Christmas Cookie Jar
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    Christmas Cookie Jar

    Pass the cookie platter, please! Frosted sugar cookies, twisty pinwheels, soft gingerbread...all the classics (and some new favorites!) are inside. Christmas Cookie Jar is chock-full of scrumptious recipes with all the flavors of the season...Chocolate...
    $16.99

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  • Church Suppers
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    Church Suppers

    Updated with 20 mouthwatering photos and the recipes that go with them! Tried & true recipes, often closely guarded secrets, that have been handed down...those are the recipes you'll find in our Church Suppers Cookbook. Recipes you can count on like...
    $36.99

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  • Christmas Cookies
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    Christmas Cookies

    Updated with more than 20 mouth-watering photos! Pass the cookie platter, please! Frosted sugar cookies, twisty pinwheels, soft gingerbread...all the classics (and some new favorites!) are inside. Christmas Cookie Jar is chock-full of scrumptious recipes...
    $36.99

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  • Cozy Christmas Comforts
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    Cozy Christmas Comforts

    Warm gingerbread, the smell of fresh pine and loved ones gathered 'round...it's Christmastime! Filled with heartfelt memories, the tastiest recipes and homespun gifts to delight family & friends, Cozy Christmas Comforts is sure to become a holiday...
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  • Weeknight Slow Cooker
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    Weeknight Slow Cooker

    Weeknights mean busy schedules but your slow cooker is here to help! Meal-by-meal cooks have continued to come up with new and creative ways to slow-cook and slow-bake in this timeless kitchen helper. We love that you can prepare an entire menu from...
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  • Modern Kitchen, Old-Fashioned Flavors
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    Modern Kitchen, Old-Fashioned Flavors

    We're lucky to have so many convenient ways to produce the wonderful comfort foods we love, with all the flavors we remember from Grandma's kitchen. Got all day? Go low & slow with a slow cooker. Treat your family to slow-simmered flavors...fork-tender...
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  • 400 Calorie Slow-Cooker Recipes
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    400 Calorie Slow-Cooker Recipes

    Whether you wish to get trim or simply maintain a balanced lifestyle, Gooseberry Patch's 400 Calorie Slow-Cooker Recipes takes the guesswork out of making calorie-controlled dishes your family will want to sink their teeth into again and again. With...
    $34.99

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  • Curmudgeon's Book of Skillet Cooking
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    Curmudgeon's Book of Skillet Cooking

    Frying and sautéing steaks, fish, and other foods in a skillet may seem to be a simple procedure, but there are enough variations and subtleties to make it interesting. Its a hands-on, special kind of cooking in which success often depends more on...
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  • Knack Mexican Cooking
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    Knack Mexican Cooking

    Mexican cuisine has become a staple of American restaurant culture-and this book brings it home. With 100 step-by-step main recipes and more than 250 variations, and 350 full-color photographs, Knack Mexican Cooking shows readers how to recreate the...
    $40.99

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  • Mango
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    Mango

    Join Miami's Mango Mama Jen Karetnick for a culinary tour of all things mango. She invites you into her home, the Mango House, where many of these luscious recipes were created. She introduces you to the Mango Gang, a group of world-renowned chefs...
    $57.99

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  • NOLS Backcountry Cooking
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    NOLS Backcountry Cooking

    This book provides sample menus and packing tips for tasty meals, snacks, and beverages to prepare during short wilderness excursions. It features recipes that include Tabouli Salad, Vegetarian Meatballs, Cowboy Coffee, and No-Bake Eskimo Cookies.
    $20.99

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  • We Will Feast
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    We Will Feast

    Explore the practice of eating together as Christian worship... The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. Records of the early church suggest that believers met for worship primarily through eating meals. Over time,...
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  • Scout's Dutch Oven Cookbook
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    Scout's Dutch Oven Cookbook

    From "Commissioners French Toast" to "Chicken Dutchiladas," The Scouts Dutch Oven Cookbook highlights hand-picked outdoor recipes, plus cooking methods and tips for a Scout-friendly cooking experience. This is the must-have resource for Dutch oven...
    $34.99

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  • The Great Gelatin Revival
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    The Great Gelatin Revival

    Once synonymous with food novelty, gelatin has re-emerged as an attention-grabbing element of creative cuisine and avant-garde drinkology. Ken Albala's most fearless food exploration yet takes readers into the sublime world of aspics past and present...
    $60.99

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  • The Italian American Table
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    The Italian American Table

    Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children...
    $73.99

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  • A Perfect Pint's Beer Guide to the Heartland
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    A Perfect Pint's Beer Guide to the Heartland

    Once dominated by megabreweries like Miller and G Heilemann, the Midwest has in recent years become home to a dynamic craft beer industry at the core of America's current brewing renaissance. Beer writer and Certified Cicerone® Michael Agnew crisscrossed...
    $54.99

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  • Honey, I'm Homemade
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    Honey, I'm Homemade

    Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, pies, puddings, and cakes that feature honey as an essential ingredient. Collecting recipes from hundreds of...
    $56.99

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  • Fast-Fix Meals
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    Fast-Fix Meals

    We have such sweet memories of Mom's home-cooked meals. Catsup-topped meatloaf, creamy mashed potatoes...food that warmed our hearts as well as our tummies, all in less than 30 minutes! If you've been longing to get out of a fast-food rut and fix dinners...
    $38.99

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  • Foolproof Family Recipes
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    Foolproof Family Recipes

    The best recipes are those shared by Mom, a sister, a friendly neighbor or a best friend, don't you think? Well, that's just what you'll find in Foolproof Family Recipes...a whole cookbook full of can't-miss, tried & true recipes! Treat your family to...
    $38.99

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  • Our Favorite Cake Mix Recipes, 2nd Ed
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    Our Favorite Cake Mix Recipes, 2nd Ed

    Recipes so easy to fix...because they start with a mix! In Our Favorite Cake Mix Recipes, you'll find dozens of oh-so-simple recipes for yummy cakes, cookies, desserts, breads and cupcakes. Impress family & friends with an elegant Ricotta Cheesecake,...
    $18.99

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  • Pecans
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    Pecans

    Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it. Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth--Georgia is the nation's leader in growing pecans--and to the happy fact that her mother ""hardly made a cookie, candy, or pan of...
    $46.99

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  • The Banquet
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    The Banquet

    A history of cooking and fine dining in Western Europe from 1520 to 1660The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host's wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to...
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  • Simply Allergy-Free
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    Simply Allergy-Free

    Food allergies are more prevalent than ever today and when you are allergic to more than one thing-for example, you can't eat gluten or dairy-it can seem overwhelming as you try to find meals that are safe to eat and still enjoyable. Simply Allergy-Free...
    $50.99

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  • Table Talk
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    Table Talk

    Etiquette books insist that we never discuss politics during a meal. In Table Talk, Janet A. Flammang offers a polite rebuttal, presenting vivid firsthand accounts of people's lives at the table to show how mealtimes can teach us the conversational...
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  • Fruit
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    Fruit

    Fruit collects a dozen of the South's bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook's basket of fifty-four luscious dishes, savory and sweet. Demand for these edible jewels is growing among those keen to feast on the South's natural pleasures, whether...
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  • Beans and Field Peas
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    Beans and Field Peas

    Robust and delicious, beans and field peas have graced the tables of southerners for generations, making daily appearances on vegetable plates, sideboards, and lunch counters throughout the region. Indeed, all over the world, people rich, poor, or in...
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  • Bacon
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    Bacon

    From the earliest days of European settlement in the South, as in many rural economies around the globe, cured pork became a main source of sustenance, and the cheaper, lower-on-the-hog cuts--notably, bacon--became some of the most important traditional...
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  • Sunday Dinner
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    Sunday Dinner

    Bridgette A. Lacy offers an ode to a meal that, notably in the Sabbath-minding South, is more than a meal. Sunday dinner, Lacy observes, is "a state of mind. It is about taking the time to be with the people who matter to you." Describing her own...
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  • Pie
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    Pie

    Sara Foster takes the expression "easy as pie" seriously. New and experienced bakers alike will thrill to Foster's encouraging approach to tossing together the most delicious made-from-scratch pies. A southern kitchen is unimaginable without pie, says...
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  • Southern Holidays
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    Southern Holidays

    Debbie Moose's Southern Holidays is a cook's celebration of the richly diverse holiday traditions of today's South. Covering big traditional holidays such as Christmas and Mardi Gras, this must-have addition to the Savor the South (R) cookbook collection...
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  • Peaches
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    Peaches

    Whether you swear by peaches from Georgia or from South Carolina, there's no doubt that the fruit is sacred to southerners. From the moment the first mouthwatering Elberta variety was grafted in the 1870s, the peach has been an icon of summertime and a...
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  • Buttermilk
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    Buttermilk

    Most southern cooks will agree with Debbie Moose when she writes, "Like a full moon on a warm southern night, buttermilk makes something special happen." Buttermilk explores the rich possibilities of this beloved ingredient and offers remarkably...
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  • Tomatoes
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    Tomatoes

    In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin,...
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Cooking, Diet & Recipe Books at BookLoop

Welcome to BookLoop’s Cooking, Food & Drink collection, your Australian destination for cookbooks, diet guides, recipe books, and culinary inspiration. Whether you are learning to cook with specific gadgets, experimenting with healthy diets, or preparing meals for parties and family gatherings, our collection helps you create delicious dishes with confidence.

Cooking with Gadgets & Techniques

Modern cooking is made easier with the right equipment. Our guides on cooking with air fryers, barbecues & grilling, and slow cooking give you step-by-step methods for effortless and flavourful meals.

Healthy Diet & Lifestyle Cooking

Transform your eating habits with our wide selection of diet-specific cookbooks. From calorie counting and gluten-free diets to high protein, low carbohydrate, low-fat and low-sugar lifestyles, BookLoop provides trusted nutrition and recipe solutions for every health goal.

Cooking by Ingredients

Explore fresh ways to cook with everyday ingredients. Our guides cover chicken, fish and seafood, meat and game, fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice, grains & pulses, chocolate, dairy, and herbs & spices. Perfect for home cooks who want to get creative with everyday ingredients.

Cooking for Every Occasion

From cooking for one to special occasions, cooking with children, or budget cooking, we have cookbooks to suit every situation. Our quick and easy cooking titles are especially popular with busy families and professionals.

Global Cuisine & Culinary Traditions

Travel the world through food with our national and regional cuisine books, or embrace sustainability with organic food and sustainable cooking. For inspiration from famous chefs, browse our TV and celebrity chef cookbooks.

Essential Cookbooks & Recipes

From classic cookbooks and recipes to dishes and courses, beverages, preserving and freezing, or even cigars and smoking, BookLoop offers a wide range of titles to satisfy every culinary interest.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best cookbooks for beginners?

Our quick and easy cooking guides and cooking with children collections provide simple step-by-step recipes perfect for beginners in Australia.

Which diet cookbooks are most popular?

Currently, high protein, low carb, gluten-free, and sugar-free diets are the most searched. BookLoop stocks trusted cookbooks for each of these diets.

How can I save money on cooking?

Explore our budget cooking section for practical recipes that stretch your grocery dollar without sacrificing flavour or nutrition.

Do you stock celebrity chef cookbooks?

Yes, our TV and celebrity chef collection includes famous names, helping you recreate their dishes in your own Australian kitchen.

What is the best way to cook for special occasions?

Our party and special occasion cookbooks provide everything from elegant menus to casual entertaining ideas for family and friends.

Start Cooking with BookLoop Today

Whether you are embracing a new diet, learning to cook with modern gadgets, exploring world cuisines, or preparing meals on a budget, BookLoop’s Cooking, Food & Drink collection empowers every Australian cook to bring more flavour, health, and joy to their kitchen.