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If you are new here, you may want to learn a little more about how this site works. Eat Your Books has indexed recipes from leading cookbooks and magazines as well recipes from the best food websites and blogs.

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Lauraine Jacobs

    • Categories: Magazine & newspaper tie-in; EYB Pick - NZ
    • ISBN: 9780947503833 Hardcover (New Zealand) 9/24/2018
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  • Baker: The Best of International Baking by Australian and New Zealand Professionals
    • Categories: Baking; Breads & bread machine
    • ISBN: 9781877178795 Paperback (New Zealand) 10/1/2001
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  • Baker: Breads, Cakes and Pastries
    • Categories: Baking; Breads & bread machine
    • ISBN: 9781865086163 (Australia) 9/1/2001
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  • The Confident Cook: The Favourite Food Recipes of Cuisine Food Editor Lauraine Jacobs
    • Categories: Magazine & newspaper tie-in
    • ISBN: 9781869418236 Paperback (New Zealand) 11/10/2006
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  • Easy Salad Recipes
    • Categories: Quick / easy; Salads
    • ISBN: 9781775537045 eBook (New Zealand) 7/4/2014
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  • Everlasting Feast: A Treasury of Recipes and Culinary Adventures
    • Categories: Autobiography, biography & memoirs; Restaurants & celebrity chefs
    • ISBN: 9781775532545 eBook (New Zealand) 4/19/2013
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  • Everlasting Feast: A Treasury of Recipes and Culinary Adventures
    • Categories: Autobiography, biography & memoirs; Restaurants & celebrity chefs; EYB Pick - NZ
    • ISBN: 9781775532538 Hardcover (New Zealand) 4/19/2013
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    • Categories: Organic, wholefoods & country; New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9780995143104 Hardcover (New Zealand) 9/9/2021
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  • Matakana: Food and Wine of the Region
    • Categories: New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9781869790387 Paperback (New Zealand) 12/5/2008
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  • New Taste New Zealand
    • Categories: New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9780908884810 Paperback (New Zealand) 10/31/1996
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  • The New Zealand Baker: Breads, Cakes and Pastries - Secrets and Recipes from the Professionals
    • Categories: Baking; New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9781877178559 Paperback (New Zealand) 6/1/2004
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  • The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook
    • Categories: Vegetables; New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9781869793654 Paperback (New Zealand) 8/6/2010
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  • The Soul Cookbook
    • Categories: Restaurants & celebrity chefs; New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9781869795009 Hardcover (New Zealand) 8/19/2011
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  • Taste: Baking with Flavour
    • Categories: Baking
    • ISBN: 9781869416843 Paperback (New Zealand) 4/8/2005
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  • A Treasury of New Zealand Baking
    • Categories: Baking; New Zealand
    • ISBN: 9781869792640 Hardcover (New Zealand) 10/2/2009
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  • A Treasury of New Zealand Baking: Over 100 Classic Recipes from New Zealand's Best-Known Cooks and Food Writers
    • Categories: Baking
    • ISBN: 9781775538097 Paperback (New Zealand) 3/6/2015
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Biography

Lauraine Jacobs, author of The Confident Cook and several other award-winning cookbooks and a former food editor of Cuisine magazine, currently writes The New Zealand Listener's weekly food column. Passionate about the food, wine and artisan producers of New Zealand, she divides her time between Auckland and Matakana, shopping daily for fresh, seasonal food.

There are few food writers more experienced or more expert than Lauraine. She trained at the London Cordon Bleu cookery school, and for almost 40 years since she has travelled widely, championed New Zealand food and wine producers, including as an ambassador for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, judged restaurant awards, been president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the New Zealand Guild of Food Writers, sat on the government advisory panel the Food and Beverage Taskforce, mentored many young food professionals, written several cookbooks, and eaten at some of the world's finest restaurants. Above all, she has never stopped loving cooking and exploring new ways to bring beautifully prepared meals to the table. She became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009, for services to the food industry.

Her books are: New Taste New Zealand; The New Zealand Baker; Baker – the best of international baking from New Zealand and Australian professionals; Taste: Baking With Flavour (with Dean Brettschneider); The Confident Cook; Matakana; The Treasury of New Zealand Baking; The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook;and Everlasting Feast.

Lauraine lives in Auckland and at Omaha with her husband, Murray Jacobs. Her very popular blog is www.laurainejacobs.co.nz/blog/