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■ REVIEWS: One-dish Dinners | Whole | The Caker
A tasty line-up of cookbooks

From the author of the quintessentially Kiwi Bach, Beach, Boat, Barbecue, comes a collection of recipes that are packed with flavour but won’t have you spending hours in the kitchen cleaning up. As you can probably gather from the title, all the recipes in Penny Oliver’s book need just one pot, pan, bowl, baking dish

■ REVIEWS: One-dish Dinners | Whole | The Caker
A tasty line-up of cookbooks
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■ REVIEWS: NZ's Lost Heritage | Modern NZ Homes | R A Lawson Victorian Architect of Dunedin
Trio of books look at NZ’s architectural heritage

The preservation of our historic buildings is often a topic of debate in this country, with passionate arguments for (it’s our history) and against (usually the cost). We haven’t always had a great record when it comes to keeping our bricks and mortar – or indeed weatherboard – history in tact, and in this book

■ REVIEWS: NZ's Lost Heritage | Modern NZ Homes | R A Lawson Victorian Architect of Dunedin
Trio of books look at NZ’s architectural heritage
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■ REVIEWS: Optimum Health the Paleo Way | The Thermogenic Diet
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food

It seems every week there is some new fad diet promising to fight flab in some miraculous way, but the so-called paleo diet is proof that there is really nothing new under the sun. The paleo way is is all about a more natural, seasonal way of eating. The author says following this eating plan

■ REVIEWS: Optimum Health the Paleo Way | The Thermogenic Diet
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food
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■ REVIEW: The Best of Grand Designs
McCloud picks favourites and explains why

After 14 years of Grand Designs on television, Kevin McCloud has pulled together some of his favourite homes from the TV show and packaged them in this hard cover collection that shows an amazing range of homes and personalities. If you’ve never seen the television Grand Designs television show hosted by the author, then you

■ REVIEW: The Best of Grand Designs
McCloud picks favourites and explains why
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