Publisher Description

Bursting with tender and funny anecdotes and gorgeous recipes, Bella is Annabel Langbein's must-read memoir.

Author Biography

Annabel Langbein has published more than 30 cookbooks, including the phenomenal bestseller, Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook , published in 2010 and which has sold more than 160,000 copies. She currently writes a hugely popular column and recipes for Canvas magazine in the Weekend Herald every Saturday. Annabel and her husband Ted live in Wanaka, in a property they have developed over many years, with extensive gardens and orchards.

Long Description

For the first time, Annabel Langbein, New Zealand's most popular cookbook author, writes about her remarkable life and how food has shaped it, highlighting some of the recipes that have resonated most strongly with her over the years. From her childhood fascination with cooking to a teenage flirtation as a Maoist hippie, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, to travelling and starting her own croissant business in Brazil, Annabel's life has always been centred on food and nature. Out of this came an obsession with creating cookbooks, introducing a generation of cooks to her simple recipes for delicious, stylish meals. Annabel has lived a huge and varied life, and she writes vividly about her many adventures. From throughout this rich life in food she has chosen 60 key recipes, created with her signature style and flair that make cooking easy for everyone, sharing them in this beautifully photographed book.

Description for Sales People

Bella's television show The Free Range Cook (3 seasons) airs on PBS Since 1984 she has worked as a food writer for several magazines including The New Zealand Herald's Canvas magazine, NZ Life & Leisure, NZ Listener and Cuisine , as well as writing and publishing her own cookbooks. She has appeared on The Today Show in the US and Saturday Kitchen in the UK She has authored and self-published 25 cookbooks, which have been published in numerous languages and sold more than two million copies around the world. In February 2016 she won the People's Choice Award for Best Home Chef in a TV Series at the US-based Taste Awards. Her books have won Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Entertaining Cookbook, Best Easy Recipes Cookbook, and Best Celebrity Cookbook. Savour the Pacific: A Discovery of Taste won the Best Photography in the World award at the World Cookbook Awards in P

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