Stephanie Alexander, cook, restaurateur and food writer, is an Australian cooking icon who has inspired thousands of people to cook well beyond their normal capabilities! Her cookbooks, featured in this article are amongst the most essential cookbooks that any Australian home can own. Stephanie has published 13 cookbooks in her career – our Ultimate Stephanie Alexander Cookbook Guide, features the cookbooks still available, the others were so popular they are now out of print.

Career Highlights

• Jamaica House, opened in 1964
• 1974 Stephanie’s Restaurant Fitzroy
• 1985 1st Cookbook
• 1996 The Cooks Companion published
• 1997 opened Richmond Hill Cafe & Larder
• 2001 opened The Kitchen Garden at Collingwood College
• 2004  established the not-for-profit Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
• 2009 The Kitchen Garden Companion published

Kitchen Garden Companion – Published 2009

“This book is for all families, with the hope that many will want to garden together, cook together and above all, eat together.” – Stephanie Alexander

If you have ever dreamed of picking fresh salad leaves for the evening meal, gathering vine-ripened tomatoes or pulling up your own sweet carrots, this is the book for you. Follow in the footsteps of one of Australia’s best-loved cooks and food writers as she reveals the secrets of rewarding kitchen gardening.

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Be encouraged by detailed gardening notes that explain how adults and children alike can plant, grow and harvest 73 different vegetables, herbs and fruit, and try some of the 250 recipes that will transform your fresh produce into delicious meals. Whether you have a large plot in a suburban backyard or a few pots on a balcony, you will find everything you need to get started in this inspiring and eminently useful garden-to-table guide.

Stephanie’s latest book, The Kitchen Garden Companion, tells you what you can grow in your own garden and then bring to the kitchen to create delicious things to eat.

The Cook’s Companion – 2nd Edition

Named #1 in the Top 10 Most Influential Cookbooks – By Good Living 2009

The Cook’s Companion 2nd edition also known as the orange bible (The 1st Edition was orange, The 2nd edition is the stripy bible) is an updated and revised edition of the best cookbook ever released in Australia – (in BookOffers opinion).

This is one of Australia’s best loved and selling cookbooks with over 500,000 copies sold in Australia alone and features invaluable information about ingredients, cooking techniques and kitchen equipment.

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Stephanie Alexander has added over 300 new recipes as well as 12 new chapters to this thoroughly revised and updated edition bringing the total recipe count to over 1000. Stephanie believes that good food is essential to living well: her book is for everyone, every day.

She has invaluable information about ingredients, cooking techniques and kitchen equipment, along with inspiration, advice and encouragement and close to 1000 failsafe recipes.

Her signature publication, The Cook’s Companion, has established itself as the kitchen bible in over 500,000 homes. This second edition of The Cook’s Companion was published in 2004. Stephanie Alexander’s philosophy is that there is no such thing as special food for children: if food is good, everyone will enjoy it regardless of age.

Kitchen Garden Cooking with Kids – Published 2006

Stephanie Alexander’s philosophy is that there is no such thing as special food for children: if food is good, everyone will enjoy it regardless of age. Here are 120 recipes with simple instructions, a colourful layout and lots of fast, fun facts. And while these recipes can be made by a couple of eight-year-olds in aprons – with a bit of adult supervision – the dishes are anything but standard kids’ fare: alongside the muffins and slices are homemade pastas, Indian curries, Asian tea eggs and vegetable-rich winter soups.

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Kitchen Garden Cooking with Kids also tells the story behind the recipes of the Kitchen Garden at Collingwood College, which Stephanie set up in 2001 in the grounds of a large inner-city school. It includes plans, activities and lists that together make up a blueprint that other schools may wish to follow. The program has given hundreds of primary-school children the opportunity to plant, grow, harvest, cook and eat the very best kind of food – freshly grown, organic, unprocessed and delicious.

Cooking & Travelling in South-West France – Published 2006

Travel with renowned food writer Stephanie Alexander to the gastronomic heart of France, the legendary south-west, and discover its food, wine, history and culture. Illustrated with magnificent photographs by Simon Griffiths, this book takes you deep into the Dordogne and the Lot (also known by the old regional names of Perigord and Quercy), exploring the food markets and discovering the land of farmhouse cheeses, wild mushrooms, confits, walnuts, prunes, black truffles and foie gras.

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Stephanie is interested in traditions: how they endure as much as how they change. She immerses herself in the life of the region, speaking with small local producers and seeking out the custodians of the old cooking ways, people whose families have always lived there. In Cooking & Travelling in South-West France, she describes the rich food culture she found and shares over 80 original recipes inspired by the region, as well as recipes offered to her by the local people.

Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer’s Tuscan Cookbook – Published 2003

Travel with Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer to the sunlit hills of Tuscany. Join their cooking classes run from a villa amid the vineyards, and find out how to live in a place where the pleasures of the table are the key to daily life. Learn how to cook and ear by the seasons in one of the world’s great food regions and through the eyes of two of our most accomplished cooks and food writers. Experiment with classic dishes using the recipes that Stephanie and Maggie discover and adapt, and find out why a simple meal of tomatoes, oil, bread and wine outclasses practically any other dining experience.

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With its stunning photography and heartfelt descriptions of the people, art and landscapes, the Tuscan Cookbook deserves a place on the shelf of every cook, traveller and lover of the good life.

‘If cooking is escapism and a cookbook the escape hatch, this is the ultimate fantasy.’
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

‘The Tuscan Cookbook fuels the need to live and eat as the Italians do.’
VOGUE AUSTRALIA

‘A captivating mix of delicious recipes, travel tales, idyllic picnics, expeditions to local markets for produce and jaunts in search of the essence of Italy.’
FINANCIAL REVIEW

Stephanie’s Journal

Stephanie’s Journal invites the reader on an intimate journey through the culinary year of one of Australia’s most loved cooks and food writers, Stephanie Alexander. Here, finally, is Stephanie’s personal account of a year of both difficulties and promise, which saw the opening of the Richmond Hill Cafe & Larder, the closure of the celebrated restaurant, Stephanie’s, the publication of two books, cooking schools in Tuscany with Maggie Beer and many warm, wonderful times with family and friends.

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A special selection of recipes is sprinkled throughout – dishes remembered, exalted and offered as gifts during a remarkable and eventful year. Champion of the importance of fresh produce and good food in our lives, Stephanie emerges as a woman of remarkable spirit, generosity and integrity. Her personal insights and observations reveal an openness to experience that will delight and inspire not only food lovers, but lovers of life.

Links and Further Reading

• Stephanie Alexanders Website
• Kitchen Garden Foundation website
• Listen to a brilliant ABC interview with Stephanie Alexander

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• Watch Stephanie Alexander in the garden

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