Around the table

Slow Sundays are for herbed roast chicken and silky smooth panna cotta. Eating outside means cheddar scones and fresh, spring salads. Friends coming by for afternoon coffee calls for a simple blackberry yoghurt loaf or comforting ginger cake with cream cheese frosting.

Beloved home cook Julia Busuttil Nishimura always knows the right dish for the occasion, weather or time of day. She also understands the power food has to bring people together, whether that's to prepare a meal or enjoy the delicious results.

With recipes ranging from quick, flavourful meals for busy weeknights to simple indulgences for summer feasts, Around the Table perfectly matches dishes to time and place. It includes recipes laden with personal meaning - Mediterranean classics from Italy and Malta, and Japanese dishes Julia has learned from her husband, Nori - that will soon become favourites around your table, too.

A food bible of wholesome, flavoursome and totally scrumptious recipes! As the holiday season approaches, I’m desperately in need of some inspiration in the kitchen bcos I tell ya what, I’m all outta ideas. There’s only so many times you can offer your friends n’ family spaghetti… or fish tacos or takeaway margherita. HA!

Thank goodness I came across this gem, I’ve been turning to this on the weekly for fresh dinner ideas. Snippets of Julia’s upbringing are a sweet touch alongside the recipes & I love her “no rules” attitude towards cooking. These are the kinda meals that will leave you so damn satisfied you won’t even ponder over dessert… but if you do, there’s plenty of sweet recipes in there amidst the savoury. Every page is full of beauty + charming imagery and this juicy book would sit pretty in any kitchen nook to encourage yummy meals in your household.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura is a Melbourne-based cook, author and teacher, and the creator of Ostro - a beloved online space where she shares her food, photographs and stories. Julia teaches sell-out cooking workshops and pasta master classes and is a regular contributor to publications, such as Country Style Magazine, The Design Files and ABC Life. Her first book, Ostro, was short-listed for the 2018 ABIA 'Illustrated Book of the Year' and named in Gourmet Traveller's 'Best Food Books for 2017'. Julia lives in Melbourne with her husband, Nori, and two children.

304 pages

Paperback

Dimensions: 26.6 x 19.8cm