Books
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
It’s been 10 years since our first cookbook was released so we're delighted to be able to bring you a new book filled with a selection of our classic recipes mixed in with the new that you all know & love! Plus detailed instructions on how to create some of our most popular cake designs at home – including our stunning Unicorn Cake!
Stunning photography by Lottie Hedley.
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society - 52 weeks of cake.
A recipe a week for a year of delicious, uncomplicated cakes - the perfect reason to sit down and connect with your community.
Welcome to The Plain Cake Appreciation Society. Where 52 simple, seasonal cake recipes inspire you to pause throughout the year, bake something delicious, and reflect on all that's good in your world. The conversations and comfort that come from what home baker and photographer Tilly Pamment calls 'little pockets of cake calm' become nourishment for your soul to carry you through into the next week.
Find your own slice of joy in the Weekday Lemon Cake or Raspberry-studded Tea Bars at the height of a breezy summer, or the Rainy Day Chocolate Loaf and Ginger and Rose Madeleines for when the weather sets in. Uncomplicated and easy to make, these recipes will provide delicious inspiration all year round.
Tilly Pamment is a recipe developer, photographer, stylist, part-time florist, and full-time wrangler of young children. She is the creative brain behind @tillys_table, where she shares her seasonal baking recipes and inspiration with a community of like-minded pleasure seekers.
The Lucky Taco Cookbook
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
It has arrived!!!! Our fabulous new cookbook all dressed up in vibrant orange,
Signed Copies!
"Angie Redfern and the Ripe Deli team are back with the fourth addition to their successful cookbook series – Thought for Food. It’s been twenty years since Angie flung open the doors of the very first Ripe store in Grey Lynn. To celebrate the Ripe team has curated a collection of fantastic new dishes, like Smoked Eggplant Hummus Salad and local favourites like Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies.
With a focus on salads and sweets, this book is filled with over 120 recipes that are sure to inspire and delight.
Food for thought and thought for food. This new cookbook goes beyond the pleasure of good food and looks at the importance of us doing better with the way we produce and consume food in general, loaded with lots of easy helpful tips.
Angie and selected guests share their sustainability journey stories throughout 'Thought for Food' and hope that their efforts will encourage you on yours."
Ripe Recipes
Our original Ripe Recipes Cookbook has been reprinted again! And is back in stock. Full of delicious baking, salads & meals, this cookbook is always in hot demand.
Ripe Recipes - A Fresh Batch
Freshness and vitality are at the heart of the second cookbook from Ripe Deli: Ripe – A Fresh Batch. There are more than 140 recipes that range from healthy to decadent sorted into occasions such as Mexican Day, Friday Pie Day, lunch faves, deli dinners, finger food... and Christmas.
This cookbook’s health focus is not at the expense of taste; the salads are bursting with flavour and there are plenty of decadent recipes included, such as the Pink Powder-Puff cake covered with meringue and the luscious Lemony Slice with a melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base.
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Our fabulous and very popular third cookbook, A Third Helping is a gift that will keep on giving or get one for yourself and start cooking up a storm!
Our third collection is arranged by season, recipes vary from fast, fresh salads and delicious quick meals to lovely slow-cooked goodness plus plenty of Ripes famous cakes & slices.
"A third Helping" also contains special sections in the book dedicated to seasonal "Abundant Vege" & quirky sections such as "Ripes Rescue Remedies", "Secret Stash" and "A Bit On The Side" filled with marinades, rubs, pickles, spice mixes and more! A Third Helping is filled with 150 recipes to feed the soul and delight your taste buds.
Lost & Found
Dear Future
Dear Future is a beautifully crafted guided journal, that was designed to help people uncover their unrealised potential.
With over 120 prompted questions that have been carefully written to encourage thought-provoking answers, all with the intention in mind to guide people to think more deeply about their future.
People that write down their goals and ambitions are 42% more likely to see their goals come to life. Thousands of people aren’t reaching their goals, simply because they are not writing them down. By writing down goals, it helps to embed them within our subconscious.
Dear Future was created to guide people through questions to make them think of what they truly want in their life.
It’s all about encouraging and igniting a fire within people to get excited about their future.
It helps you to look at what could potentially lie ahead for you if only you started dreaming about it today.
Over 120 prompted questions
- 120gsm paper
- 150 pages
- Fabric cover gives the book the highest protection
The Makers
Following on from the success of Wild Kinship - Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs, The Makers focusses on the wellness of our minds. It serves to inspire and awaken the creative in all of us.
The Makers speaks with artists from all walks of life to discover the impact that arts and creativity have on the cultural wellbeing of society and that of our own.
Published by Beatnik Publishing. Hardcover.
Flora And The Flamingo
Flora And The Penguin
Eat Up New Zealand - Al Brown
Al’s very latest book is a nostalgic treasure trove that gets to the heart of what New Zealand culture is and the food that reflects that. With over 150 recipes, combining stunning food photography and beautiful on-location shots from around the country this is the perfect gift for every New Zealander.
Eat Up New Zealand honours the past with updated Kiwi classics like roast lamb, pies, flounder, corned beef, pikelets, cheese scones, feijoa and tamarillo desserts, preserves and much more. We have access to the best fresh produce in the world and Al's approach is to start with great seasonal produce, cook it simply and add a flavour punch, texture and garnish to take it to another level. It's clever, simple and yet refined food that is inherently Kiwi.
From Seed To Bloom
A Year Of Growing & Designing With Seasonal Flowers
Starting by tackling the principles of floristry from seed to bloom, Milli takes you through the seasons and explores the top plants to grow and how to style them. Each chapter spotlights the growing highlights of the season with top tips on how to sow, grow and harvest.
Milli also shares her own stories from the field to help inspire and encourage you to grow your own, with advice on soil health, composting, sustainable growing and how to plan your planting. From Seed to Bloom includes beautiful lifestyle photography shot through the year from Milli's field, as well as step-by-step photography that celebrates the art of creating beautiful floral pieces, to gift and to keep. This is a book for those who seek an approachable and accessible insight into the wonderful world of flower growing and floral arranging.
Learn to play with colour and texture both in your planting and styling with From Seed to Bloom , as you learn how to create designs with confidence and bring nature into your home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Milli Proust is inspired by the way plants grow in the wild, and she loves working with what she grows, creating romantic and playful designs for weddings, events, brands and personal clients. All of her crops are all grown in rhythm with nature, and are completely chemical-free in a passionate effort to protect our surrounding wildlife. In January 2017, she made the move from London, where she was born and raised, to a deeply rural pocket of West Sussex.
It may be only an hour back to the city by train, but it often feels so much further away than that. She fell in love with her pocket of countryside, deep in the woods, growing as much beauty as she could. In the few years of making this her home, she has learnt to see the seasons change, not just from winter to spring, from spring to summer, but from week to week, each and every day bringing new promise, change and subtle shift. When she is not tending to the crops or creating and installing floral work, she works as an actress for radio, stage, and television.
Gardens For The Soul
There are a multitude of different ways in which we use our outside spaces, and in Gardens for the Soul Sara Bird and Dan Duchars explore ways to create and style a haven that will suit your lifestyle. Day Dreamers seek solitude and a therapeutic experience, and Home Harvesters use their garden space to grow flowers or fruit and veg; while Garden Partiers put their outside space to work as an entertaining zone for friends and family and Great Escapers aim to recreate a chilled holiday vibe at home. Sara and Dan visit real-life gardens that fall into these categories, from tiny patios to larger spaces, to glean ideas, tips and inspiration. With a focus on sustainability and reclaimed materials, there are suggestions for choosing garden elements, from decor to lighting to furniture and accessories, as well as easy craft projects that add quirky personal touches.
Sustainable Home
Sustainable Home is a stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household.
Sustainable lifestyle blogger and professional Christine Liu takes you on a tour through the rooms of your home - the living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom - offering tips, tricks and 18 step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Whether its by making your own toothpaste, converting to renewable energy sources, reducing your consumption of plastic, growing your own herb garden or upcycling old pieces of furniture, there are numerous ways - both big and small - to make a difference.
With environmental issues at the forefront of global politics, the desire to make small changes on an individual level is on the rise; this book will guide anyone hoping to make a difference, but who perhaps don't know where to begin.
Hardback | 160 pages
170 x 230 x 22.86mm
Grow - Wahine Finding Connection Through Food
- Format: Hardback
- Publication Date: 07/06/2022
- Publisher: Beatnik Publishing
- Country of Origin: New Zealand
- Pages: 256
Be The One
I’ve written this book for you who feels so deeply or “too much,” as others have said. In this book, I celebrate deep feelings and show you the power in their vulnerability. Whether you’re searching for who you are or for someone else who gets you, this book is for you. The short passages inside will inspire you with their themes of friendship, love, and self-discovery. You are not alone. We are not alone.
Love is worth the risk.
This Is How You Heal
In her follow-up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest’s words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.
Healing is not a one-time event.
It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into, and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.
The Flower Hunter
This is the most stunning book I have seen for some time with every page I turned I gasped at the beauty of what Lucy creates and this book will be taking centre stage on my coffee table the minute it arrives and it is already inspiring me to create some exciting new projects!
In The Flower Hunter, Lucy Hunter takes us on an inspirational journey through a year in her garden and artist’s studio set among the mountains of North Wales.
Lucy's evocative, gently humorous words accompany her glorious photographs and exquisite floral arrangements, as she encourages the reader to marvel at the intricate cycles of the natural world, develop their own innate creativity, and to look for beauty in the everyday.
Her garden provides the raw materials for Lucy's floral artistry - breathtaking naturalistic arrangements with all the painterly beauty and flourish of a Dutch still life.
Simple projects accompany Lucy's text, from drying garden flowers for an autumnal wreath to making your own journals and natural dyes to assembling lavish arrangements that showcase the voluptuous beauty of garden roses. Lucy believes that we all have a creative voice buried deep within. The Flower Hunter will encourage you to find your own creativity and help it to blossom.
Lucy Hunter has a Fine Art BA (Hons) degree and over 20 years' experience working as an award-winning landscape designer, floral artist, and self-taught photographer. Passionate about her garden and the natural landscape, Lucy is constantly exploring ways to soften the boundaries between inside and out, capturing transitory shifts in nature and the seasons. Lucy knows what plants work together, the soil conditions they need to thrive and understands how composition, form, texture and scale work to create a standout garden.
The Curious Bartender
The Grater Good
Flip Grater is a renowned kiwi singer/songwriter, who boasts her own Indie record label and owns Grater Goods, a plant-based delicatessen based in central Christchurch. In her professional life she is a successful chef and recipe writer, developing her vegan recipes and Grater Goods products that are sold in retailers throughout Aotearoa. In her precious spare time you’ll find her chilling with French husband Youssef and five-year-old daughter Anaïs.
The Grater Good cookbook highlights food that is truly delicious and about indulgence, yet happens to be good for you and the planet. Over 60 European-inspired, adaptable dishes, ranging from Seitan sausages, cassoulets and breads to super easy spreadable cheeses, pates, crackers, delectable desserts and plant-based baking and cooking.
These recipes are edible activism, ethical hedonism. They’re mostly unfussy, unpretentious and shareable. Flip encourages you to gather around tables, break bread and leave a ton of crumbs like the French do.
Flowers For Friends
This is a book about flower arranging from the perspective of a gardener.
Harvesting from the garden means short, wonky stems, bruised petals, insects crawling out of blooms and the open invitation to claim a weed or vege as vase fodder. Flowers for Friends is both a reflection, and story of the seasons brought indoors by Julia Atkinson-Dunn when harvesting from her garden and foraging in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Written in her signature casual tone (as seen in her first book Petal Power), Julia offers an accessible guide to picking, conditioning and arranging home- grown treasures, celebrating their quirks and encouraging unexpected combinations. Seasonal chapters profile arrangements she has made, detailing plants in season and inviting readers to play without the hunt for perfection, or restraint.
SPECIFICATIONS
Size: 260 x 200 mm, portrait Pages: 192
Cover: Paperback with specialist thick ‘linen’ texture stock, gatefold and embossed title
Binding: Stitched and sewn