Riverstone Kitchen Modern Day Classics Cookbook: Favourite Recipes from an Iconic New Zealand Restaurant: 2019

Riverstone Kitchen has always been about honest food, full of flavour, simply prepared from seasonal ingredients. Over the years a lot of great recipes have appeared on our menus and our first two cookbooks came about in the heady rush after winning Cuisine Restaurant of the Year in 2010. In the process, some of the best dishes from those early years were documented. This became a permanent record and a chance to showcase a little of what makes Riverstone tick. In the years since, most of those recipes, even the good ones, have been tweaked, adjusted or simplified. Although the first books have long gone out of print, we still use many of the original recipes – albeit updated – throughout the seasons. Tarragon chicken at the start of spring, hot smoked salmon with new season potatoes, or zucchini basil and Parmesan soup at the height of summer is food with soul and still ticks all my boxes. Food doesn’t go out of fashion when it is this delicious, and our customers naturally ask for many of the recipes to try themselves. The response, ‘Yes, it was in our first book but sorry it’s out of print’, has begun to wear a little thin. So, after much ado, here they are: a collection of our most cherished and sought-after recipes, reprinted, revised and revamped and brought together for the very first time in one volume. Riverstone Kitchen, Modern Day Classics encompasses all the recipes we know you loved from the first two books plus a whole range of new classics that have emerged in the years since. All the recipes have been made even simpler, so you can cook your favourite Riverstone dishes at home without spending hours in the kitchen. Thai chicken salad, chocolate sour cream cake, slow-cooked lamb with gnocchi and herb oil. Summer berry panettone pudding. Nahm jim, steamed pork buns, shaved cabbage salad, focaccia, sourdough, caramel nut tart, zucchini fritti. They are all in there – a treasure trove of Riverstone Kitchen’s greatest. A homage to the past and a nod to the future. About time I hear you say, and I agree. Happy cooking!