Our next instore event will be on Tuesday 10 October with specialist vegan author Zacchary Bird.
We'll be celebrating the launch of his new book The Vegan Baker.
Tickets are available from Eventbrite
Our next instore event will be on Tuesday 10 October with specialist vegan author Zacchary Bird.
We'll be celebrating the launch of his new book The Vegan Baker.
Tickets are available from Eventbrite
read more about Instore Event: Zacchary Bird's The Vegan Baker
The Melbourne Rare Book Fair returns in 2023 and we are exhibiting. We will have some wonderful rare and interesting wine, food and gastronomy items from the 18th to the 21st century.
There will be 25 Australian and International dealers with thousands of wonderful items for collectors and lovers...
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Books for Cooks
115-121 Victoria St, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne VIC 3000
Our dear friend, Alice Zaslavsky, food educator, ABC radio presenter, MasterChef contestant, all-round passionate foodie and best-selling author of In Praise of Veg is back with...
read more about Book Launch: The Joy of Better Cooking with Alice Zaslavsky
Julia Busuttil Nishimura is a local Melbourne-based cook and author who often shops here at the Queen Victoria Market.
Around the Table is her latest, and largest, book following on from her highly popular Ostro (2019) and A Year of Simple Food (2020).
Her recipes draw on her Maltese heritage...
On Thursday 4th August, we're celebrating the launch of Peter Coleman & Matt Fowle's "Weekends with Matt: a memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine"
We've always believed in the importance of sharing a table, of hospitality and conversation and the importance of wine in that...
The Australian & New Zealand Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ANZAAB) is excited to announce the return of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair after a....
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location:
Books for Cooks
115-121 Victoria St, Queen Victoria Market Melbourne VIC 3000
Join us for a uniquely entertaining insight into the world of edible mushrooms.
Martin Martini of Belly of the World Mushrooms will talk about his work...
At 12.30 on Saturday 26th, March, one of our favourite authors Fuchsia Dunlop will be giving a cooking demonstration on making Mapu Tofu at the Queen Victoria Market - as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival - and afterwards Fuchsia will be at Books for Cooks for a....
We are excited to be exibiting at the Biblio Live Virtual Rare Book Fair this weekend.
We're quite excited to be included in the latest Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Bookseller's latest joint catalogue. Twenty-four Antipodean bookdealers are exhibiting and there is a wonderful selection of rare and unusual books.
You can download the catalogue from the ANZAAB website
You will find our selection...
We are very excited that from Saturday 30th November we will be resuming our normal trading hours and customers can browse instore again.
The bookstore has had a big clean and we have lots of new books (new and old) in stock. Amanda & Tim are both double vaccinated.
Under...
It seems every year at this time all the hype is about 'Click Frenzy' or 'Black Friday' or 'Cyber Monday'....
To be honest, its not for us...its not how we like to sell books.
And, we strongly believe in shopping local, but we did want to do something to celebrate...
And we're back! Huzzah!
Whilst its been ok to sell books online and potter around in a very quiet bookstore full of books for the past few months...nothing beats having real book lovers and real cooks instore
Starting Wednesday 28th October we'll be open to welcome you back in store.
...Here we go again!
From Wednesday night 6th August, to comply with Government restrictions, Books for Cooks will closed to the public for instore sales.
We will be open for online, phone and mailorder sales. We can deliver by post or contactless local delivery or if you are shopping at...
We ...and the Market... remain open and trading subject to some commonsense precautions. In the market there is plenty of fresh produce and plenty of space & fresh air.
Parking for the first hour is now free so you can shop early...
In late February, Sandor Katz will be touring the East Coast of Australia with Sharon Flynn of the Fermentary
We will be popping up at his Victorian events with a wide selection of fermenting books including the seminal books by Sandor himself, The Art of Fermentation and Wild Fermentation and...