{"id":77845,"date":"2017-12-28T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=77845"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:02:26","slug":"best-2017-food-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/12\/28\/best-2017-food-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2017: Food and Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Best<\/a><\/p>\n

Australian kitchens enjoyed a bumper crop of great cookbooks in 2017. New books from delicious.<\/em> magazine<\/a>, Matt Moran<\/a>, Poh Ling Yeow<\/a> and Donna Hay<\/a> all made the grade. A return to form from Jamie Oliver with his simplicity manifesto 5 Ingredients<\/em><\/a> planted him firmly at the top of our bestseller charts. The world-renowned Yotam Ottolenghi teamed up with Australian Helen Goh for his first desserts book, Sweet<\/em><\/a>, and the Bourke Street Bakery team have followed up their 2009 super-bestseller with Bourke Street Bakery: All Things Sweet<\/em><\/a>, unlocking the secrets to their world-famous pies, pasties and cakes.<\/p>\n

Our winning title comes from an Australian household name. It\u2019s a book that combines a lifetime of culinary excellence with leading-edge research into aging and the prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Our customers have gone wild for it.<\/p>\n

Read on for our shortlist of seven titles with one lucky winner. Be sure to subscribe to the Booktopian for more of this year\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

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Food & Drink: Winner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Maggie's<\/a>Maggie’s Recipe for Life<\/strong>
\nby Maggie Beer and Professor Ralph Martins<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is so important to me.<\/p>\n

To have a healthy old age you must act now, whether you are 30 or 50.<\/p>\n

I have two great passions \u2013 sharing my love of cooking delicious simple food and improving the health and nutrition of older people. I hope this cookbook does both but it\u2019s not for \u2018old\u2019 people, it\u2019s for you. I have been delighted to work with leading Alzheimer\u2019s researcher Professor Ralph Martins in recent years and I have learned that if we are to avoid Alzheimer\u2019s and other lifestyle diseases it is what we eat today that matters… Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Food & Drink: The Shortlist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Best<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Best<\/a><\/p>\n

The Shortlist: delicious. daily<\/em><\/a> by delicious.<\/em> Magazine, Basics to Brilliance Kids<\/em><\/a> by Donna Hay, Bourke Street Bakery: All Things Sweet<\/em><\/a> by Paul Allam and David McGuinness, Matt Moran’s Australian Food: Coast + Country<\/em><\/a> by Matt Moran, Sweet<\/em><\/a> by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh, 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food<\/em><\/a> by Jamie Oliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian kitchens enjoyed a bumper crop of great cookbooks in 2017. New books from delicious. magazine, Matt Moran, Poh Ling Yeow and Donna Hay all made the grade. A return to form from Jamie Oliver with his simplicity manifesto 5 Ingredients planted him firmly at the top of our bestseller charts. The world-renowned Yotam Ottolenghi teamed up with Australian Helen Goh for his first desserts book, Sweet, and the Bourke Street Bakery team have followed up their 2009 super-bestseller with Bourke Street Bakery: All Things Sweet, unlocking the secrets to their world-famous pies, pasties and cakes. Our winning title comes from an Australian household name. It\u2019s a book that combines a lifetime of culinary excellence with leading-edge research into aging and the prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Our customers have gone wild for it. Read on for our shortlist of seven titles with one lucky winner. Be sure to subscribe to the Booktopian for more of this year\u2019s best. Food & Drink: Winner Maggie’s Recipe for Life by Maggie Beer and Professor Ralph Martins This book is so important to me. To have a healthy old age you must act now, whether you are 30 or 50. I have two great…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":77985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[98,6703,73],"tags":[7830,8313,8304,8135,8246,8302,8303,8309,8297,7168,8306,8300,8301,1681,2042,8296,8312,2711,3433,8298,3577,8307,8308,8305,8299,8310,8311],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Best-of-17-FoodDrink-Blog-SocialMedia_440x220.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78056,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77845\/revisions\/78056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}