Food is the new rock & roll

With Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, Iron and Wine, The Lemonheads, The Shins, and oh yes, Meat Puppet, songsters concur: food is dope.

The publishing industry is also in perfect agreement, given the huge number of cook books and food-related titles published every season. Too much of a good thing? Between new releases, reprints, reissues, new formats and already existing titles, it can verge on overgrown vegetable patch territory.

So Good Egg has done this: we’ve whittled the world of cook books down to the best of the best. Our selection is browser-friendly, organized by category or region. The Good Egg staff is eager to offer its two cents, and we have a full database plus years of experience using it. So ask away !

We honour requests and special orders too.

We stock these fine food mags: LUCKY PEACH, ACQUIRED TASTE, GASTRONOMICA, MEATPAPER, FIRE & KNIVES and coming soon: KINFOLK

Featured Book:

Take Away

Jean-Francois Mallet

Many chefs shop at Good Egg. We recognize them because they almost always mumble and wear baseball caps. Also, they look tired, very, very tired. So we show them this book: it’s full of brightly coloured photos of delicious snack foods from around the world, with no recipes or words to weaken their weary eyes. Pics of vendors in their stalls and other makeshift food venues are overstuffed with all manner of enticing treats – salty fishes, molten coffee, glazed meats, pickled veg in jars. We stand back and watch tired eyes begin to brighten, and send our chef-customers off just a little bit more awake, and suddenly very hungry.

Hardcover $39

More books…

What's in Season?

Tasting India
CHRISTINE MANFIELD

This is a seemingly self-serving suggestion on our part: the ticket price is $90. But here’s the thing, this is a gorgeous tome. Plus it won the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award, which is a totally uncharacteristic and artful choice. It also won in the culinary travel category, which is what this is – a pan-Indian food odyssey organized by geographic region. Clear some coffee table space.

Salad for Dinner
JEANNE KELLEY

Some nights we eat too many hot dogs for dinner. The next night, hopefully, we are making friends with salad. Break out of your beet, fennel, goat cheese rut with some of the many light to substantial meals from this beautifully photographed buffet of recipes. Includes a good lesson on knowing your greens and dressings for different purposes.

Fresh and Easy
JANE HORNBY

Forget the name of this book – it’s a lame title. But we’re smitten with its content and layout, and feel it is a great primer for beginners. A selection of straightforward recipes represent a variety of meals, including brekkie and yay, picnics! Step-by-step instructions are both written and illustrated in photographic action shots, along with a handy photo of the ingredients for those nights when you can’t be bothered to read, or aren’t sure what certain items look like.

Everyday and Sunday: Riverford Farm
WATSON & BAXTER

A perfect book for seasoned cooks, and a seasonal book for perfect cooks. Short on technique, rich with ideas. The premise here is simple, ingredient-based meals throughout the week, and a multi course Sunday feast for every month of the year.