NWP welcomes Chef Gaz Oakley!  Chef Gaz is out with his brand new cookbook "Plants Only Kitchen".  Chef Gaz is passionate about vegan cooking. Inspired to follow a healthier lifestyle, he decided to change his diet and go vegan. He became a chef in Cardiff, UK, at the age of 15!  Using the techniques he had learned as a professional chef, he started devising beautiful and innovative vegan dishes. Plants-Only Kitchen offers an explosion of flavour, with more than 70 vegan recipes that work around your lifestyle. With symbols flagging whether recipes are high-protein, take less than 15 minutes, or are suitable for meal prep and batch cooking, Plants-Only Kitchen explains how best to make a vegan diet work for you. No fuss, no fancy ingredients – just fantastic food using plants, only.  Gaz Oakley (aka @avantgardevegan) has amassed well over a million followers on social media with his exciting vegan dishes, which emphasize that a plant-based diet doesn't mean missing out on taste. In Plants-Only Kitchen, Gaz's recipes are easier than ever before – following his step-by-step instructions, tips and advice, anyone can cook great vegan food. https://www.avantgardevegan.com/

Gaz Oakley is Passionate About Vegan!

NWP welcomes #1 Bestselling Cookbook Author Danielle Renov! Danielle is the blogger/influencer behind the popular brand, website peaslovencarrots.com and Instagram account @peaslovencarrots. From her kitchen in Israel she creates delicious and approachable recipes, lifestyle tips + hacks, and shares all things motherhood and family related. But mostly, it s food. Half Moroccan and half Ashkenaz, Danielle was born and raised in Long Island, New York. Soon after their wedding, she and her husband Eli moved to Israel, where they ve lived with their children ever since. Danielle is a living melting pot of the cultures she was born into and those she now lives among. The Machane Yehuda Shuk in Jerusalem is where she spends her days, wandering its alleyways, chatting up vendors, and making new friends. Danielle has created a community where all are welcome, no matter who they are or where they come from. Food is the medium she uses to express her love to those around her and she is looking forward to bringing more peas + love into the world by helping others gather people around tables everywhere filled with yummy food and happy tummies! Peas, Love & Carrots is available now whereever books are sold.

Peas Love & Carrots with Danielle Renov

NWP welcomes Tara "Teaspoon" Bench!  AS A FORMER FOOD EDITOR AND STYLIST with Martha Stewart and food director of Ladies' Home Journal magazine, Tara knows how to create and showcase gorgeously themed meals for every lifestyle and occasion.

In her first cookbook, she shares more than 120 delicious showstopping recipes that are designed to impress. From leisurely weekend brunches spent over burrata cheese with grilled peaches and orange zest chimichurri to easy weeknight rice bowls with carrot-ginger dressing to a mouthwatering Italian crostata baked tart, Tara explains how to put together and master several special go-to dishes from the culinary capitals of the world to add to your repertoire.

The book also features a section where she provides a basic recipe which can then be easily transformed into two or three new recipes to make meal planning a breeze during busy weeknight schedules.

Live Life Deliciously with Tara Teaspoon shows serious foodies how to present food as an interesting and beautiful culinary experience with dishes that taste as delicious as they look. http://tarateaspoon.com

Live Life Deliciously With Tara Bench aka "Tara Teaspoon

NWP welcomes James Beard Award-winning chef Dan Kluger!  In his debut cookbook, James Beard Award–winning chef Dan Kluger shares 190 recipes to help home cooks master flavor and technique

Dan Kluger, a chef celebrated for his simple yet flavorful food, knows there’s more to mastering cooking than just following directions. So with each of the innovative, elegant recipes in his debut cookbook, he includes a valuable lesson that applies beyond the tasty dish. For example, master the art of mixing raw and cooked versions of the same ingredient while preparing a Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Manchego Vinaigrette. This is a very versitile cookbook! If you want pizza...boom...pizza receipe...brisket?...boom...brisket!...Vegetarian or vegan?...boom...you got it! Want to up your knife skills? This is where you start!

From homemade pantry items to vegetable mains, meats, and grains, this book is not just sophisticated recipes but a master class of lessons for more flexibility and innovation in the kitchen. Dan is widely regarded as one of the country's rising culinary stars and is known for his extraordinary skill at transforming simple foods into culinary masterpieces! Chasing Flavor is available now whereever books are sold. https://www.dankluger.com/  Buy Chasing Flavor and enjoy! Also, it makes a GREAT gift!

Dan Kluger Chasing Flavor

NWP welcomes back again, Food Network Star and Author of the Flavor Matrix and the new cookbook "Flavor for All", Two time "Chopped" Champion, James Briscione!  Simple, dynamic, flavor-packed recipes from the authors of The Flavor Matrix—informed by the science of flavor pairing but accessible enough for every cook. 
Fans were ravenous for more recipes from James Briscione and Brooke Parkhurst, authors of The Flavor Matrix, so the authors are serving up 100 new recipes in Flavor for All, drawing on the principles and flavor-focused approach that informed their previous book. This is, at heart, a practical home-cooking book with delicious and accessible recipes, but with unique and unexpected twists based on scientifically approved flavor pairings. Recipes include Seared Steaks with Almond-Cherry Pesto; Caesar Artichoke Dip; Brown Butter, Maple, and Pear Pork Roast; Spicy Kiwi and Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; “Umami in a Bottle” salad dressing; and Chocolate and Red Wine Bread Pudding. The authors explain why certain flavors taste so good together and provide plenty of practical tips on how to coax the maximum amount of flavor from your ingredients.  #AvailableNow where books are sold! Instagram @cookbooksmakegreatgifts

Chef, Author & Food Network Star James Briscione talks Flavor for All!

NWP welcomes Cuban-(American and now) Australian Chef Danielle Alvarez! 
We are are going down under and down memory lane with award winning Chef, Danielle Alvarez. Just out with her new and FIRST cookbook...
"Always Add Lemon" was highly anticipated by her fans and is already a #1 Best Seller in Seasonal Cooking. American-born Danielle Alvarez—one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in America, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward, seasonal food.

With more than 100 recipes across six chapters (salads; fruits and vegetables; pasta, grains, and legumes; seafood; poultry and meat; and dessert) paired with creative projects for the more adventurous (pastry from scratch, bread, dairy, meat and pickles), Always Add Lemon will inspire anyone with a smidgen of kitchen ambition and a free afternoon. Nourishing recipes and inspiring kitchen projects destined for the aspirational home cook's repertoire. You may know Chef Danielle from Sydney's iconic Fred's restaurant.  Follow on Instagram @daniellemariealvarez

Always Add Lemon with Award Winning Cuban-American Chef Danielle Alvarez!

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