Surf Food | Cookbook
March 3rd 2010 21:51
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Surf Food
The ultimate surfers cookbook
By Nava Young
Format: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Pandanus
Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 9780646522517
RRPrice: $39.95
This is one very sexy cookbook. The food, athletes and photography all layout the message of easy healthy munchies in a healthy lifestyle is fantastic; so let us break it all down to get a handle on why it reaches me with so much immediacy.
Here is my situation - most surfers in my extended family are lads between the ages of fourteen and sixty. The SURF FOOD book is placed nicely in this demographic. My mob will dash off to the beach at the crack of dawn or before to check out the swell along the coast - some of them live on the Southern coast of South Australia - Middleton, Seaford, Port Elliot, or the Southern coast of New South Wales - Kiama, Royal National Park and a few are perpetual travelers along the coast. The Surfers in this Ultimate Surfers Cookbook by Nava Young are from all over the globe, very exotic - very cool. They've surfed some swell.
Sometimes the crack of dawn dash involves ringing around a few mates, sometimes it does not. If they are lucky during the ring around, some mate will say he has something on the boil or bake. So breakfast is taken care of usually; the smarter the Surfer the more obvious it is to them that the sport requires energy.. food is the energy source, not a hit of Red Bull.
Most of them avoid fast food like take away burgers, chips, soft drinks because they appreciate the whole good food = good life equation, the older fellas, they've been warned by their Doctor to avoid too much fat and salt or maybe they have some political position that wards them off; vegan, vegetarian, pimples vs clear skin, there're plenty of good reasons to eat well when your mission is to ride the ocean.
Problem is not many of them, less than half out of about twenty blokes, would be willing to actually make a meal from scratch beyond toast with avocado and minced garlic or chili - it can not take too long - if there's swell there's swell and it may not last forever.
The women I know are actually the ones who meet at the exotic and rare almost all night take away and do the healthy fast food, Greek or Indian. They have a pragmatic approach, it may be pretty dull food but it is fast, and does not require too much thought.
Ever since my easy to use handheld food processor died from overuse (after a longish life of ten years) I have not had the constant container of homemade chili beans and onions in the fridge, so I am visited less and less for the quick hello, green tea and face feed.
I can usually throw a few things together myself because I am a single man in his forties on a low income, who likes to eat tasty fresh food more often than not. Now I have had some great input via Nava Young and her desire to keep track of the tasty meal.
Eduardo Bage for example has given me something to go with my sisters Barny Banana; (a banana frozen in the freezer on a summer day - nice natural treat). Cut up that frozen bananna and toss it in with Bage's Chocolate Stuffed Bananas
My immediate family used to have a kiosk on the cliffs at Seaford in South Australia so we all picked up some great tips from the surfers who frequented the place. They told us what they wanted to eat and we would work it out one way or another. With this book I've got a whole new selection of good food.
The great thing is any sporty type with half a brain can work some kitchen magic if they have clear direction and focus. The variety inside this cook book is broad, and funnily enough a lot of the food is so simple yet tasty you'll possibly wonder why you don't already have the knack of throwing it together. Heaps of snack food, including LB's Chocolate Chip Cookies Rock Cakes from Mark Richards and Pam Burridge's Orange Poppy Seed Cake. Now you can easily learn how to throw it together. It really is as simple as that.
Why is the book sexy? The photography is beautiful, lush. Not only great shots of the food, as you would expect, but an action shot and colour profile of each surfer means there's a lot to read about surfing. That's sexy.
The complexity seems to be in the foods taste rather than preparation process in all of these easy to follow recepies. The method is clear and simple always set out in clear dot points and if you keep in mind the lifestyle of a surfer - any athlete - you can understand the need for things too be uncluttered. It's an easy guide rather than cluttered up with reasons why we should eat beansprouts, it gives you basic direction to get something tasty right.
Food, sun and surf the Australian appeal is great, what a fantastic gift for a young guy or girl - these are great role models, the people who probably remain one of the essential ingredients to all of content, the surfers. They are the ones who have brought the recipes to Nava Young to begin with - although it seems she hunted them down rather than just let them drop into her lap - good on her.
Young has really created a great coffee table and kitchen book; a good survival guide for a young person out in the world wanting to figure out a few good meals easy and quick to make. Not too expensive - great gift.
David Jobling
The ultimate surfers cookbook
By Nava Young
Format: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Pandanus
Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 9780646522517
RRPrice: $39.95
This is one very sexy cookbook. The food, athletes and photography all layout the message of easy healthy munchies in a healthy lifestyle is fantastic; so let us break it all down to get a handle on why it reaches me with so much immediacy.
Here is my situation - most surfers in my extended family are lads between the ages of fourteen and sixty. The SURF FOOD book is placed nicely in this demographic. My mob will dash off to the beach at the crack of dawn or before to check out the swell along the coast - some of them live on the Southern coast of South Australia - Middleton, Seaford, Port Elliot, or the Southern coast of New South Wales - Kiama, Royal National Park and a few are perpetual travelers along the coast. The Surfers in this Ultimate Surfers Cookbook by Nava Young are from all over the globe, very exotic - very cool. They've surfed some swell.
Sometimes the crack of dawn dash involves ringing around a few mates, sometimes it does not. If they are lucky during the ring around, some mate will say he has something on the boil or bake. So breakfast is taken care of usually; the smarter the Surfer the more obvious it is to them that the sport requires energy.. food is the energy source, not a hit of Red Bull.
Most of them avoid fast food like take away burgers, chips, soft drinks because they appreciate the whole good food = good life equation, the older fellas, they've been warned by their Doctor to avoid too much fat and salt or maybe they have some political position that wards them off; vegan, vegetarian, pimples vs clear skin, there're plenty of good reasons to eat well when your mission is to ride the ocean.
The women I know are actually the ones who meet at the exotic and rare almost all night take away and do the healthy fast food, Greek or Indian. They have a pragmatic approach, it may be pretty dull food but it is fast, and does not require too much thought.
Ever since my easy to use handheld food processor died from overuse (after a longish life of ten years) I have not had the constant container of homemade chili beans and onions in the fridge, so I am visited less and less for the quick hello, green tea and face feed.
I can usually throw a few things together myself because I am a single man in his forties on a low income, who likes to eat tasty fresh food more often than not. Now I have had some great input via Nava Young and her desire to keep track of the tasty meal.
Eduardo Bage for example has given me something to go with my sisters Barny Banana; (a banana frozen in the freezer on a summer day - nice natural treat). Cut up that frozen bananna and toss it in with Bage's Chocolate Stuffed Bananas
My immediate family used to have a kiosk on the cliffs at Seaford in South Australia so we all picked up some great tips from the surfers who frequented the place. They told us what they wanted to eat and we would work it out one way or another. With this book I've got a whole new selection of good food.
The great thing is any sporty type with half a brain can work some kitchen magic if they have clear direction and focus. The variety inside this cook book is broad, and funnily enough a lot of the food is so simple yet tasty you'll possibly wonder why you don't already have the knack of throwing it together. Heaps of snack food, including LB's Chocolate Chip Cookies Rock Cakes from Mark Richards and Pam Burridge's Orange Poppy Seed Cake. Now you can easily learn how to throw it together. It really is as simple as that.
Why is the book sexy? The photography is beautiful, lush. Not only great shots of the food, as you would expect, but an action shot and colour profile of each surfer means there's a lot to read about surfing. That's sexy.
The complexity seems to be in the foods taste rather than preparation process in all of these easy to follow recepies. The method is clear and simple always set out in clear dot points and if you keep in mind the lifestyle of a surfer - any athlete - you can understand the need for things too be uncluttered. It's an easy guide rather than cluttered up with reasons why we should eat beansprouts, it gives you basic direction to get something tasty right.
Food, sun and surf the Australian appeal is great, what a fantastic gift for a young guy or girl - these are great role models, the people who probably remain one of the essential ingredients to all of content, the surfers. They are the ones who have brought the recipes to Nava Young to begin with - although it seems she hunted them down rather than just let them drop into her lap - good on her.
Young has really created a great coffee table and kitchen book; a good survival guide for a young person out in the world wanting to figure out a few good meals easy and quick to make. Not too expensive - great gift.
David Jobling
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