If you love new cookbooks as much as we do, you’re in for a treat with the latest offerings from Penguin Random House. Choose from a wide variety for every palate, just in time for the festive season too!

Kicking off with Jamie Oliver, and his most user-focused cookbook ever, 7 Ways. Jamie wants to give everyone brand-new inspiration for their favourite ingredients, the kind of things you can pick up in any supermarket. He shares 7 achievable, exciting and tasty ways to cook 19 hero ingredients, and each recipe will have no more than 8 ingredients within it. With everything from fake-aways and tray-bakes to family and freezer favourites, you’ll find bags of inspiration to help you mix things up in the kitchen.

Another celebrity cookbook to get excited about is Yotam Ottolenghi’s Flavour. This is the third instalment in his bestselling and multi-award-winning PLENTY series (over 2 million copies sold). Flavour celebrates the limitless potential of vegetables and reveals how to transform them into magical and innovative dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspire.

On the local front, you can be on the lookout for the brand new Weber’s Ultimate Braai Book which was released in September. This latest offering is exactly what you’d expect from the world’s foremost barbecue company. Innovative recipes, imaginative ingredients, fabulous photography, and a wealth of sound advice for both novice cooks and experienced braai-masters.

And of course, there’s our very own Ms Sibalicious! Her brand new book, Let’s Cook is jam-packed with nutritious and delicious, easy-to-do meals and snacks for any occasion, from lunch boxes to smoothies and so much more. Siba has taken the fuss out of the kitchen and created recipes for mom and dad to whip up with their little ones’ help.

And finally, one not to miss in December is Nigella Lawson’s brand new book, Cook, Eat, Repeat featuring narrative essays about food, over 100 new recipes and 50 beautiful colour photographs. A must for all Nigella fans.

For even more amazing cookbooks, visit penguinrandomhouse.co.za

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Not sure what to serve your guests around your Christmas table this year, what kinds of canapés to make or which drinks to prepare for New Year’s Eve? Or maybe you aren’t sure which gift to buy your favourite foodie (or yourself!). We consulted Penguin Random House to help us take the guesswork out of your festive season preparations with their latest list of outstanding new cookbooks.

1. SUMMER FOOD BY CHEF TJAART WALRAVEN

Serve up some of chef Tjaart’s delightful dishes on those long, hot and balmy summer days. Everything from Grilled Aubergine Salad With Yellow Capsicum Dressing, to his Ultimate Summer Fruit Terrine, your summer table needs Summer Food.

2. DELISH SISTERS: TASTY FOOD MADE WITH LOVE BY KATE LUND & REBECCA LUND

The Delish Sisters are your girls if you’re looking to prepare tasty food made with love, and they give you options for every type of occasion: a sultry summer brunch or a celebratory feast featuring a moreish Berry, Litchi And Ginger Crumble, or a Quinoa And Chia Arancini. Or how about a seaside lunch with some Green Goddess Fennel or Fresh Coconut Salad. A hearty home-style feast that starts with Roast Butternut, Spinach, Sage and Feta Quinoa Risotto, and ends with Vanilla Mascarpone Cheesecake will also go down a treat!

3. CAPE MEDITERRANEAN BY ILSE VAN DER MERVE

If you love long festive season tables that start with breads and spreads, going into smaller bites or tapas, and then onto generous salads and vegetable dishes served alongside beautiful roasts or freshly-grilled seafood, then Ilse van der Merve has you covered. With ideas and tips on how to entertain family and friends around the lunch and dinner table, her true celebration of local, seasonal produce will shed a modern light on a few familiar Mediterranean classics in her exquisite cookbook Cape Mediterranean.

4. SHARE BY ERRIEDA DU TOIT

If traditional South African recipes are what you’re after, or if you prefer the classics, then Errieda Du Toit has just the collection for you. Share features a wide selection of recipes as generous, gracious and welcoming as the home cooks who shared them in the 150 community cookbooks that inspired this book. Is the festive season ever complete with nostalgic and forget-me-not recipes, such as Lettie’s Seven-layer Salad, a Snoek Roly-poly or traditional Fruitcake?

Penguin Random House definitely has something for everyone, so make your way to your nearest bookstore and take your pick of these sumptuous cookbooks before they all sell out.

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