The Cook & The Chef

Take one inspired cook with a national and international reputation for mouth-watering home cooked creations. Add one chef who creates five star restaurant masterpieces on a daily basis. Mix the magnificent setting of the Barossa Valley in South Australia with the abundance of local seasonal produce and garnish with plenty of good humour.

Maggie Beer has taken the regions food to the world and won acclaim across the globe. Maggies cooking celebrates what is growing around her and she revels in the food each season of the year produces.

In The Cook & The Chef Maggie introduces Executive Chef Simon Bryant to her home region, and the people who supply her with the produce she has used to create her culinary reputation. Together they show viewers the secrets of converting home cooked dishes into restaurant meals. In each of the ten episodes, The Cook and The Chef visit local producers whose crops are ready for the table and then take the produce back to Maggies kitchen. Maggie and Simon transform the fresh ingredients into dishes everyone can cook, along the way providing helpful tips on how food is best bought and prepared.

The Cook and The Chef on DVD is a celebration and step-by-step guide to the joy of using good basic food to create great fantastic dishes. It is two people whose lives revolve around food inviting us into their passion.

He might be a chef and she might insist on calling herself a cook but together they will take us into a world of food that might just change the way we eat.

RRP: $29.95
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