Karen Martini’s COOK: The Only Book You Need in the Kitchen is the essential Australian cookbook for the food you’re cooking at home today. Covering a generous breadth of cuisines and ingredients across well over 1000 recipes, this book bursts with Karen’s love of cooking, and the inspiring ideas and enduring principles that make her flavours timeless.

With an acclaimed career spanning decades, and the influence of her Tunisian-Italian heritage, Karen has forged a path for female chefs and cooks across the country, and here she shares the hard-earned knowledge and experience for which she is famed. COOK doesn’t just tell you what to cook but shows you how to cook, with insights into the foundations of flavour and practical advice on sourcing and surrounding yourself with quality, ethical ingredients and essential equipment – everything you need to make fantastic meals from the ground up.

COOK will stay fresh in your kitchen for years to come, providing for the everyday as well as life’s special occasions. Be guided to pull multiple dishes together to build an inspired meal, or to omit ingredients for your dietary preferences. Karen will lead you to bold, simple and satisfying results time and time again.

This is the taste of modern Australia in one long-awaited cookbook. As the title says: COOK.

"A new book by Karen Martini is a reason for celebration. This is clever, delicious, doable food and it uses absolutely all of my favourite ingredients." Yotam Ottolenghi

Vibrant, fresh produce takes centre stage in this collection of original, nourishing and downright delicious salads and vegetable dishes from Karen Martini.