Bestselling TV cook Bill Granger brings his trademark fresh flavours and easy-going recipes to the well-loved food of Italy.
The cornerstone of Bill’s cooking is also the cornerstone of the best of Italian cuisine: simple, flavoursome dishes with short ingredient lists and uncomplicated methods, centred on ingredients that are easy to find and needn’t be expensive. And better yet, those ingredients don't have to just be tomato, mozzarella and basil, the usual suspects of Italian cooking, but neither do they need to be deli-sourced truffles or champagne-priced olive oil. Bill offers a bold new twist on this hugely popular cuisine.
There’s a Roman saying along the lines of: ‘the more you pay, the less well you eat’; Bill shows you how to take common ingredients from your supermarket and achieve healthy and satisfying Italian-inspired dishes.
Divided into themed chapters – from quick and easy suppers and deliciously stress-free meals for friends, to no-fuss oven-baked comfort food, lazy weekend food and big Italian-style get-togethers – Bill’s Italian Food will bring fresh ideas to your kitchen. And along with the mouth-watering pastas, meats, salads and grills you’ll be serving happiness, comfort and joy.
One again Bill Granger offers maximum flavours with minimum effort giving Italian food an inspiring makeover to tantalise the tastebuds as well as fit into our busy lives.
spinach with crushed olive, ricotta salata, pinenut dressing roasted asparagus with black olives and mint gnocchi baked with tomato, ricotta and pecorino pappadelle with spicy chicken ragu pumpkin and amoretti lasagne braised pork meatballs with sultana, pinenut and marjoram fresh salad of peach, prosciutto, treviso and burrata pizzette with caramelised fennel, rosemary and salami tagliatelle with courgette, sweetcorn and pecorino sausage stuffed pork loin with garlic and rosemary pancetta roast chicken with walnut stuffing squash, fontina and ricotta gratin summer berry and white chocolate tiramisu blood orange, almond and mascarpone cake

Bill’s Italian Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Granger, Bill

Regional & International

Harpercollins

For Bill cooking is a time to relax, and meals should be stress-free and sociable (his restaurant, bills, is famous for its one communal table). bills food focuses on the pleasures of cooking, eating, and sharing food with friends. His straightforward recipes reflect the casual, comfortable Australian lifestyle, and strike the perfect balance between the exotic and the familiar. The ingredient lists are short, and the sweet (and savory) results are spectacular. There are no complicated steps, and no fancy equipment is required. The stunning photographs accompanying each recipe are sure to spark both creativity and hunger in home cooks, and just might inspire them to head for the simple life down under.

Bills Food

Reference

William Morrow Cookbooks

In Bills Open Kitchen, renowned Sydney-based restaurateur and chef Bill Granger presents dozens of effortless, inventive dishes for every meal of the day.Bill loves food that is fast and easy to prepare, yet still rich in flavors like Ham and Gruyére French Toast, Caramel Chicken, and Banana Maple Upside-Down Cake.Bill believes cooking is a time to kick back and relax. You won't find any complicated steps or fancy equipment here – just simple, straightforward, delectable dishes. And all infused with the welcoming, celebratory spirit of Australia.

bills open kitchen

Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novel Time for Frankie Coolin. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, it offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago. Time for Frankie Coolin tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s, buys abandoned buildings and makes them just habitable enough that he can charge minimal rent to his mostly black tenants. Frankie―both a tough guy in the trades and a family man―has done well by his wife and kids, moving them to a house in the suburbs. But a casual favor for his wife’s cousin―allowing the man to store some crates in an empty building―and a random act of arson set in motion a cascade of crises, including a menacing pair of G-men and the looming threat of prison if Frankie doesn’t talk. But since talking has never been one of Frankie’s strengths, he copes as he always has: by trying to tough it out on his own. Calling to mind such gritty poets of the urban scene as George V. Higgins and Nelson Algren, Time for Frankie Coolin is both a psychological thriller and a ’70s Chicago period piece that shines a surprisingly sympathetic light on the often ignored stories of the people who lived, worked, and died at the city’s margins.

Time for Frankie Coolin: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Chicago Press

Riding the pro circuit to get the inside scoop for his employer, a Vegas bookie, ex-sportswriter Jimmy Drover decides to give it all up and turn against his mob friends when his former lover is murdered. Reprint.

Drover

Avon/Books

As his alma mater's "dream team" approaches the Final Four, Jimmy Drover is drawn into an investigation of fixed games, point- shaving, recruitment violations, and murder. Reprint.

Drover and the Zebras

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Agreeing to investigate allegations that a baseball superstar for the Chicago Cubs has developed a gambling problem, former sportswriter Jimmy Drover learns that several people stand to benefit from the athlete's downfall--or death. Reprint.

Drover and the Designated Hitter

Fighting Jane: Mayor Jane Byrne and the Chicago Machine

DIAL PRESS

Chronicles a colorful story of big-city politics in a penetrating account of the Chicago machine, one of the most powerful political organizations in the world

Lords of the Last Machine: The Story of Politics in Chicago

History

Americas

Random House]

The November Man journeys to the politically explosive Caribbean island of St. Michel and discovers an American agent who claims to possess Hemingway's journal of his Cuban sojourn during the Bay of Pigs, a notebook alleging CIA and Mafia involvement in the region

Hemingway's Notebook

WARNER BOOKS

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