Author(s): David Cohen (Editor); Kathy Paterson (Editor)

Food & Drink | Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction | PANZ Book Design Awards —2023 winners

An authoritative and above all useful cookbook from New Zealand's favourite broadcaster, featuring 180 trusted (and tested) recipes hand-picked from the thousands of delicious recipes that have featured on RNZ shows such as Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Saturday Morning in recent decades. The format is mapped to a day on air on RNZ: the recipes are in categories thattake the user from morning to well into the night. Featuring recipes from keypersonalities from down the years - from Alison Holst and Julie Biuso to MartinBosley, Nadia Lim and Peter Gordon - it's terrific way to track our food history. With a rich essentials section plus radio and food key-moments timelines, The RNZCookbook connects the hundreds of thousands of kitchens around New Zealandand abroad who turn to RNZ for direction on great food. Afternoons host and foodie Jesse Mulligan provides the foreword.

Contents: Introduction 11 Morning Report 19 Nine to Noon 31 Midday Report 47 Afternoons 75 Worldwatch 93 Checkpoint 109 Nights 145 Saturday Morning + Sunday Morning 173 Essentials 187 A radio legacy 232 Conversions 240 About the contributors 241 Select bibliography 256 Acknowledgements 264 About the editors 265 Index 266

Author Biography: David Cohen is a Wellington writer who regularly writes about food, runs the Middle Eastern Food blog and co-wrote the cookbook Ima Cuisine with Yael Shochat. Kathy Paterson is one of New Zealand's most experienced food writers and caterers, a former Cuisine writer, and the author of three cookbooks, the most recent being Meat & Three.