Café Food At Home - Rosanna Thomson - New Holland

Café Food At Home - Rosanna Thomson - New Holland - RRP $24.95

Rosanna Thomson is right when she says "a café is a little oasis away from the daily grind". Over the past five or so years the café has proliferated everywhere around us in Australia, becoming the "lounge room" where we can meet with family and friends in an informal setting to share a coffee or a meal in the midst of the frantic lives we all seem to lead. The informality of the café is a place where good wholesome food meets quality ingredients, good taste, quick preparation all at a reasonable price. What Rosanna Thomson does with this classy cookbook is to transpose the café' into our living room with a stack of great recipes ranging from Spanish omelette, Caesar salad, prawn risotto, seafood chowder, and lamb shanks through to the humble shortbread biscuit. All of these are presented clearly in an easy to understand and follow format that won't intimidate those who want to try out their Café favourites for themselves. An excellent book with page after page of good solid reliable top notch Café' food favourites that will satisfy your cravings from dusk to dawn when you are at home and sans café near by.

Paul Ippolito is a Sydney wine writer who writes for publications across 4 states of Australia, the Internet as well as writing his own free monthly wine newsletter for wine consumers. Email him at Paul_Ippolito@hotmail.com