Feijoa Recipe Book
The Feijoa Recipe Book
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The Feijoa Recipe Book is the world's first full colour professional cookbook, dedicated to feijoas. There are 41 feijoa recipes including 9 new savoury dishes, 9 muffin and cake recipes, 19 delicious feijoa desserts and 4 sweet treats. Buy this book now! (credit/debit card or internet banking if NZ) Or contact your local bookshop. |
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Feedback from Customers
You are a gem! I received the book and I am so excited to try some new ideas. I spent the entire day yesterday peeling and chopping and I still have tons more to prepare for the freezer. I just don't have it in me to throw away one piece of fruit, unless it's bruised of course... Thank you again for the freezer tip. Best Regards and Warm Blessings.... Kim
Author's note
I must admit that, when I was first asked to write this book, I was apprehensive. A whole book on feijoas!
Once I began the feeling changed. I was pleased, for example, to find an affinity between feijoas and pork. This enabled me to include a short savoury section, something I had not considered at first.
The recipes come from a variety of sources; some are developed from scratch in my own kitchen, others are adapted from existing recipes and others still are taken directly from other cooks and writers.
Where a recipe is taken directly from another cook or writer, I have acknowledged my source. Acknowledgment is more difficult for the adapted recipes as I have either changed them dramatically from the original, or the original was taken from many years worth of hand-written notes, the source of which were not recorded.
The Author, Wyn Drabble
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1980s During the 1980s Wyn ran his own catering business in Sydney, Australia (preparing meals for, among others, Bob Hawke, John Howard, international manager of Verve Clicquot). Wyn was a regular demonstrator at Accoutrement Cooking School, Sydney, and has been runner-up in the Sydney Morning Herald Pork Promotion Recipe Competition.
1984 Wyn featured in lead stories in Vogue Entertaining, Belle Entertaining, Mode and Epicurean. 1990s Food writer/Caterer/Teacher at Havelock North, Hawke's Bay (prepared meals for, among others, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Dr Tony O'Reilly). Weekly food columnist in Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune* July 1989 to present day. Fortnightly "Cuisine" spot on ZB Talkback Hawke's Bay since 1997. Regular contributor to Cuisine magazine |
The Photographer, Bruce Jenkins
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Bruce Jenkins is a professional photographer in New Zealand's art deco city, Napier. He specialises in commercial photography and also runs a stock photography agency. He has previously worked with Wyn Drabble on a number of features for New Zealand's highly regarded Cuisine magazine. |
The Review
Review from Cuisine Information for Libraries
'.....you'll find savoury feijoa dishes, feijoa muffins, and cakes, feijoa desserts , and feijoa sweet treats. The former owner of a catering business in Sydney, author Wyn Drabble returned to New Zealand a decade ago. He now works as a caterer, teacher and food writer, scribing for Cuisine on occasions. He is based in Hawke's Bay, the country's fruitbowl, where feijoas are prolific, so he knows what he's talking about."
Cuisine (New Zealand's leading food, wine and good living magazine), Issue 80 May 2000
ISBN 0-9582115-3-1
Published Nov. 1999 Reprinted 2010 and 2015
Size is A5 with spine in PB
RRP $21.95
40 Recipes
8 full colour illustrations