When we eat
When we eat
A seasonal guide to Tasmania’s fine food and drink
By Liz McLeod and Bernard Lloyd
Photography by Paul County
Published by The Culinary Historians of Tasmania 2004
ISBN 0-646-44132-9
Here we have the main course, so to speak, following the delicious and tantalising entree that was the first book by the Culinary Historians of Tasmania — Before we eat.
Where Before we eat talked about Tassie foodstuffs and the people who grow, prepare and serve them, When we eat presents recipe after recipe that will have the armchair chef salivating and the earnest cook out in the kitchen sharpening up the knives.
As the authors say “its 328 pages lay out the journey of food and drink in Tasmania, from the wild to the table, and from the remotest past to the present”. The high priestess of good Aussie tucker, Maggie Beer, wrote the foreword.
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Wild Tasmania 2006
Wild Tasmania 2006
(34cm wide x 30cm deep)
A calendar by Rob Blakers and Grant Dixon
Published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo
Two of our best-known wilderness photographers have joined forces in this calendar which features amazing views in heritage and national park areas captured with great sensitivity. As the months go by, each new aspect of the incomparable Tasmanian wilderness gives a lift to the spirits.
Crisply printed and luxuriously glossy, this would be a fabulous gift to send overseas, too.
Wilderness Tasmania 2006
(17cm wide x 23cm deep)
Produced and published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo
In contrast to the large format calendar above, and the diary that follows, this smaller version is illustrated with photographs only by Rob Blakers.
Again there is that quality of light that is the Blakers’ signature — stealing over flowering heath and scoparia in Ben Lomond National Park in the early morning, or reflecting off the peaks and undulations of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park blanketed with winter snow, or the last dramatic moments of a purple-red sky over Federation Peak, itself glowing mysteriously orange.
The calendar doesn’t have the space to keep many details of a busy life, it’s a month at a view — but would be a neat reference to hang in a study or a workshop, or simply to moon over when you’d rather be in the great outdoors. There’s enough room for each day to write at least a reminder of birthdays and other anniversaries or more prosaically, a date with the dentist or doctor.
Wilderness Tasmania 2006 Diary
Published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo
Landscape images by Rob Blakers are teamed with wildlife images by Jon Bryan and Loic le Guilly in this really attractive, and very useful, diary. A week at a view per page, interspersed with full-page photographs or occasionally, a double-page extravaganza, means you won’t get bored with having it sit around on your desk or in your study or kitchen.
While it wouldn’t be suitable for keeping details of many appointments or complicated financial notations, its format allows you to keep quite an extensive amount of information within its pages. Spiral bound, so opens quite flat.
And those photographs … some you might recognise in the Rob Blakers portfolio, here; they are complemented beautifully by Jon Bryan’s shot of a self-important cuttlefish cruising along among kelp and Loic le Guilly’s shy little Bennett’s wallaby. Patsy Hollis
Visit his web site for more stunning imagery.
Antarctica 2006
Antarctica 2006
(48cm deep x 34cm wide)
A calendar by Andy Townsend & Lyn Irvine
Published by Images of Antarctica
ISBN 0-9752041-2-2
It’s that time of year again when thoughts turn to the next and how to keep track of time. A calendar for 2006 is what is needed, and intrepid Antarctic recorders have done it again.
Lyn Irvine is a marine biologist, and Andy Townsend is a freelance photographer and computer programmer. Together they have captured serene and awesome moments of the frozen continent, unparalled for its purity, beauty and (for the most part) inaccessibility.
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Antarctica 2006
Antarctica 2006
(17cm deep x 23cm wide)
A calendar by Andy Townsend & Lyn Irvine
Published by Images of Antarctica
ISBN 0-9752041-1-4
Another offering from the indomitable Antarctic duo, Andy Townsend and Lyn Irvine, here is a small calendar to hang where you don’t have as much room.
Size simply doesn’t matter when you see the ice-crisp photography marking each month, cast with that beautiful and eerie blue light that only snow and ice creates.
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Dancing on the Edge of the World
Dancing on the Edge of the World
Essays on Birds and the Lighter Side of Life
Donald Knowler
Published by Donald Knowler
ISBN 0 646 42882 9
Once a prominent literary form, the essay has declined in status as our collective attention span has been truncated by the quick, the slick and the superficial; the six-word sound-bite, the snarling shock-jock, the second-by-second editing that makes most television so enervating to watch and the near-universal rule, imposed by half-educated newspaper editors, that journalists should write for those with a reading age of twelve, have drowned out the quiet and the contemplative.
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Eloquent Objects
Eloquent Objects
The Wongs’ Collection of Chinese Antiquities and Artefacts
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
ISBN 0-9750545-4-6
In keeping with the munificence of the donation by Professor Shiu Hon and Mrs Nancy Wong of their lifetime collection of Chinese ceramics and other artefacts, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has published a book to commemorate the event.
That’s a simple explanation of what is a handsome volume, handsomely produced and illustrated, and a wonderful memento of this significant gift to the people of Tasmania.
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