Food Fast - Donna Hay new softcover book from Marie Claire

by DONNA HAY

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Large new softcover book published 2006. 192 pages, lots of beautiful colour photos.

Preparing a meal loaded with fresh flavours and ingredients shouldn't take the better part of the afternoon. Marie Claire Food Fast is the ultimate tool to help you maximise your minutes. It's a book of fast, fresh recipes for busy people. In classic Marie Claire style, it offers simple flavourful solutions to the daily dilemma of what to have for dinner - and quick!

Whether you've got 10, 20 or 30 minutes to make a meal, Donna Hay gives you the ideas, recipes and inspiration to create great dishes using fresh and interesting ingredients in next to no time. With busy people like herself in mind, Donna has solved the daily what's-for-dinner dilemma with a book full of fast, simple, tempting and satisfying answers. Keep a copy of Food Fast on the kitchen bench and, even in your busiest moments, you'll never be left wondering what's for dinner.

• This is an Australian publication and all recipes are in metric, imperial, and cup & spoon measurements

About the author

Donna Hay is one of the best–known names in cookbook and magazine publishing in the world. Her books have sold more than 2.2 million copies internationally and are renowned for their fresh style, easy–to–follow recipes and inspirational photography. Donna's first job post-TAFE home economics diploma was in the test kitchens of the Australian Women's Weekly. She began to not only develop recipes but to style them, too. Distracted by the plethora of extras : candles, glasses, flowers, sauce boats, fancy folded napkins that went into photographing a dish, Donna started to pare down the props and let the food be the hero. By the time Donna had become the food editor of marie claire magazine her style was set: fresh, modern food on white plates, with simple backgrounds that has captured the imagination of cooks worldwide and set a new benchmark for modern food styling and publishing.

Eight phenomenally successful cookbooks later (including off the shelf and modern classics books 1&2, Donna Hay has a swag of prestigious international food awards. Her latest book, the instant cook, is already a bestseller, and donna hay magazine continues to inspire cooks of all levels of experience with each new seasonal addition of simple but special recipe and entertaining ideas.

marie claire FOOD FAST by DONNA HAY