Australia knows him as the cravat-wearing critic and hulking soulful judge on TV's crazily successful MasterChef Australia but it's his writing that has had the food world talking for the last ten years. Here are all his best stories and columns. A collection of Matt's irreverent, intelligent, and amusing adventures in food. This book will take ...

Cravat-A-licious

Preston, Matt

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

ReadHowYouWant

Fast, Fresh And Unbelievably Delicious: 204 Recipes You'll Want to Cook Again and Again

Plum / Pan MacMillian Australia

Cook Book: 187 Recipes That Will Make You Incredibly Popular

Plum / Pan Macmillan Australia

The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better

Pan Macmillan/Plum

127 dinners that take 30 minutes or less to prepare.Yummy: This cookbook is packed with modern classics you'll love cooking for your friends and family. And that they'll love eating. Easy: All the recipes rely on everyday ingredients; staples that you already have in your fridge, freezer or pantry. Quick: All dishes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less.

Yummy, Easy, Quick

Quick & Easy

Pan Macmillan/Australia

Based on the success of Yummy, Easy, Quick, Matt Preston has done it again, and this time he's gone global. Here are 135 of Matt's favourite iconic dishes from 11 of the world's great cuisines, all of which are quick to prepare using easy-to-find ingredients. Ditch the food-delivery app and up your kitchen game with more yummy, easy and quick meals the whole family will love.\nFrom the Author\nMatt Preston is an award-winning food writer and television personality. He writes a national column for the Taste section of NewsCorp's metro newspapers, which is read by four million Australians every week. He is well known in Australia, and internationally, as a judge and co-host on MasterChef Australia. He is also a senior editor for Delicious and Taste magazines. Preston has appeared in seven series of the ratings juggernaut MasterChef Australia (total worldwide audience of 180 million) as well as one series each of Celebrity MasterChef, Junior MasterChef and MasterChef Allstars. Preston also co-hosted MasterChef: The Professionals with world-renowned chef Marco Pierre-White in 2014.

Yummy, Easy, Quick: Around the World

More recipes with more veg for more joy. This is a book of delicious recipes, starring vegetables, with more of everything: more flavour, more texture, more colour. Maybe you want to eat more vegetables, or less meat, or try cooking some tasty vegan meals to broaden your repertoire and still put a broad smile on the faces of those you are feeding? Maybe you want to save money or the environment by eating more plant-based meals, or maybe you just want to keep the vegan or vego in the family happy at dinnertime without having to cook two meals? Maybe you just want to enjoy a meat-free Monday every so often and don't want to feel like you're missing out? Here are over 100 recipes full of vibrant colours and flavours that celebrate the pure, unadulterated pleasure that food can give you. All the recipes are vegetarian or vegan - but if you decide you'd like to add a little bacon or a slab of fish, we're not going to wag a finger. We've even included a separate cooking guide for your meaty add-ons. Gone are the grey-meat-and-potatoes menus of the past. Each of these recipes capture the happiness that good food can bring. More combines Matt's passion for simple, hearty recipes with his love of the humble veggie to bring the whole family to the table for a delicious meal.

More: More Recipes with More Veg for More Joy

Vegetarian & Vegan

Plum

Cook up delicious food from around the world right in your kitchen, with Matt as your wise and entertaining guide. Matt Preston’s mantra is flavour. Tasty and easy-to-make food that puts a smile on your face is what he’s all about. In this colourful new cookbook, Matt brings together our favourite, flavour-filled dishes from all over the world – from carbonara and chicken korma to potsticker dumplings and Portuguese custard tarts – with the intriguing and myth-busting stories behind them. Some recipes are in their classic style, others have a special ‘Matt twist’, and all of them use easily found ingredients. With Matt Preston’s World of Flavour, you’ll not only have the ultimate delicious recipes to perfect and enjoy, but also their surprising histories and facts about them to share around the dinner table.

Matt Preston's World of Flavour: The Recipes, Myths and Surprising Stories Behind the World’s Best-loved Food

Celebrities & TV Shows

Lantern Australia

A rock'n'roll memoir of life, death and growing up with the occasional scandal. For a man who has been firmly in the public eye for the past decade or more, Matt Preston has been very, very quiet about his past and private life. There are reasons for this. Now, in Big Mouth, Matt opens up about his early years for the first time – the good and the bad, the tragic and the ecstatic. Like the man himself, it’s a story that’s joyous, funny and larger than life. It’s also, perhaps unexpectedly, filled with pathos and emotional depth, set to a pulsating 1980s soundtrack. From his fractured childhood and the tragic death of his younger brother, to adoption, heroin, his disastrous time in the British Army and relocating to the other side of the world – where he would eventually find love and success – Matt writes frankly about it all. Naturally, food weaves its way through his story at every turn. His most memorable food experiences, from the exquisite and the excellent to the dreary and the dreadful, form the backdrop of a life well (and not so well) lived. This is a fresh, exciting, gloriously eccentric memoir from one of the food world’s most beloved bon vivants.

Big Mouth: a memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Viking Australia

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Life-changing food adventures around the world.
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables a traveller to survive, a doorway into the heart of a tribe, or a thread that weaves an indelible tie; it can be awful or ambrosial - and sometimes both at the same time. Celebrate the riches and revelations of food with this 38-course feast of true tales set around the world.
Features stories by Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Mark Kurlansky, Matt Preston, Simon Winchester, Stefan Gates, David Lebovitz, Matthew Fort, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris and Pico Iyer. Edited by Don George.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
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A Moveable Feast (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

Planet, Lonely

Kurlansky, Mark

Bourdain, Anthony

Zimmern, Andrew

GEORGE, Don

Gates, Stefan

Lebovitz, David

Fort, Matthew

Cooking Education & Reference

Lonely Planet

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