'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy.'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. Perfect for fans of Wilding by Isabella Tree.What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling her...

A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods.'[An] entertaining and deeply informative crusade into the human obsession we call milk and a vigorous argument for us to keep drinking it.' Dan Barber'A rich dive into milk and the bounties it offers.' Dr Norman Swan'A revelation. Educational, relevant and eye-opening.' Nagi Maehashi, RecipeTin E...

A group of volunteers begged, borrowed and remortgaged a house on their way to convincing FIFA to hand them the keys to the 1994 World Cup. When they got the green light, the USA was tasked with presenting the greatest show on earth to a nation of non-believers, with a press corps just waiting for them to fail. Six years later, the country famed for its glitz, glamour and razzmatazz delivered a glorious summer of memorable kits and billowing goal nets, confounding the doubters as they shat...

Join chef, food critic and author of the hugely successful food bible, The Real Food Companion, Matthew Evans, as he embraces winter with more than 85 warming recipes - from Winter Potato and Bacon Soup, and Stout, Beef Shin and Mushroom Pie to an exceptionally delicious Kentish Cherry and Elderflower Fruit Pudding. Matthew grows much of his own produce on his farm in Tasmania, also the setting for his popular SBS TV series The Gourmet Farmer, where he cooks these cosy feasts on h...

A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer.'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings his unflinching honesty - and a farmer's hands-on experience - to the question of how to be an ethical carnivore.' Hu...

Food critic turned farmer and sustainable seafood activist Matthew Evans, along with his two best chef mates, shows us how seafood should be cooked. Simple recipes that demystify everything from abalone to sea urchin, snapper to octopus, as well as inspiration if you want to catch your own dinner rather than head to the fishmongers. This is all about the taste of real food fresh from the sea, cooked with care and respect for the seafood populations in your part of the world.

The definitive Matthew Evans book on food, celebrating resolute flavours, integrity, and the joy of home cooking with 200 simple, delicious, unpretentious produce-driven recipes. Erudite and enlightening, akin to having the farmer, butcher, and baker by your side.The Real Food Companion includes more than 200 recipes, with photography by Matthew's long-time friend and collaborator, Alan Benson. It is the result of Matthew's four decades as a writer, chef a...

What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food that is on the turn? And how do they make it seem fresh? What happens to a restaurant when it gets a bad review? Australians are renowned for our passion for eating out and our cities boast some of the best restaurants in the world. But how many of us really have a sense of what goes on behind the scenes? In this hilarious book Matthew Evans...

Gourmet Farmer Matthew Evans and producers Nick Haddow and Ross O'Meara share their favourite deli recipes. Enjoy food as it used to taste.Why would you make your own sausages or cure your own ham? It's quite simple, really - because it tastes better.This collection of recipes celebrates the artisan process in making items you'd typically find in your local deli and provides simple, delicious recipes where those ingredients are the stars of simple, flavoursome dishes.

The funny, heart-warming and at times exhausting behind-the-scenes story of Matthew Evans' transformation from high-profile food critic to television's Gourmet Farmer.How do you go from being an urban dag to a country boy without any experience of the bush?In 2008 Matthew Evans, one of Australia's most powerful food critics, stepped off the Sydney treadmill to farm 20 acres in Australia's southernmost shire.What is it really like to take th...

Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics offers a novel and comprehensive solution to one of the oldest interpretive puzzles in the history of ancient Greek philosophy: the so-called "problem of the Doxa." This puzzle arises out of an apparent conflict between the main part of Parmenides' poem, called "the Aletheia," and the cosmological part, called "the Doxa." Whereas in the Aletheia he seems to argue that nothing is generated, divided, or cha...

Enjoy the seasons and give in to the wintery sweet temptations from 'Gourmet Farmer' Matthew Evans.Join chef, food critic and author of the hugely successful food bible, The Real Food Companion, Matthew Evans, as he embraces winter with a lip- smacking selection of puddings and sweet treats.Recipes include: Steamed cumquat marmalade pudding; Caramel pear upside-down cake; Date, honey and ginger cake; Brown sugar hazelnut biscuits; Eccles cakes; A very good, very chocolaty c...