Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Annabel’s 25th book is an essential contemporary, authoritative and comprehensive kitchen companion for today’s home cook – a 320-page treasury of easy but delicious savoury recipes illustrated with full-colour photography and accompanied by an encyclopedia of tried-and-true cooking tips. Featuring more than 650 recipes, ESSENTIAL Volume One: Best-Ever Meals for Busy Lives offers something for all tastes, all seasons and all occasions. Some recipes are Annabel’s own personal favourites. Others are timeless classics, selected by popular demand then retested and tweaked to make them better than ever. Plus there are dozens of new recipes created by Annabel especially for this book, inspired by the food she’s cooking and eating right now. This new book celebrates 20 years since Annabel’s enduring bestseller The Best of Annabel Langbein: Great Food for Busy Lives was published. Over two decades The Best of Annabel Langbein has become a bible in countless New Zealand households, but the world has changed a lot in 20 years, and so have cooking and eating tastes, trends and even techniques. This new collection provides a road map for the next 20 years.
Buy the book now! annabel-langbein.com/shop/books
Annabel’s 25th book is an essential contemporary, authoritative and comprehensive kitchen companion for today’s home cook – a 320-page treasury of easy but delicious savoury recipes illustrated with full-colour photography and accompanied by an encyclopedia of tried-and-true cooking tips. Featuring more than 650 recipes, ESSENTIAL Volume One: Best-Ever Meals for Busy Lives offers something for all tastes, all seasons and all occasions. Some recipes are Annabel’s own personal favourites. Others are timeless classics, selected by popular demand then retested and tweaked to make them better than ever. Plus there are dozens of new recipes created by Annabel especially for this book, inspired by the food she’s cooking and eating right now. This new book celebrates 20 years since Annabel’s enduring bestseller The Best of Annabel Langbein: Great Food for Busy Lives was published. Over two decades The Best of Annabel Langbein has become a bible in countless New Zealand households, but the world has changed a lot in 20 years, and so have cooking and eating tastes, trends and even techniques. This new collection provides a road map for the next 20 years.
Buy the book now! annabel-langbein.com/shop/books
