Lorenzo’s Library

05/04/2020

Getting inspiration - Todd Shelby’s Edible Selby and A Delicious Life from Gestalten. The hospitality industry will be changing when we come out of this - yet people will always want to gather and share food & drink. A look at the common threads, varied inspirations, and some beautiful pictures.

16/10/2018

Can’t wait for this , Featuring nz’s own Monique Fiso !!

In this fast-paced competition, teams of chefs vie to impress some of the toughest palates as they whip up iconic dishes from around the world. The Final Tab...

16/10/2018

New in this week is Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food, for those who don’t know Tom his pub The Hand & Flowers in Buckinghamshire is the first pub to be awarded 2 Michelin stars. Tom has been featured on the BBC and his other books cover healthy eating, he is big into looking after his own health and doesn’t drink. Fascinating guy who just loves to cook.

15/10/2018

Friends, MAD Mondays are back! We're celebrating the release of our very first publication “You and I Eat the Same” in San Francisco, New York, and London and invite you to join us for an evening of conversations around the ways cooking and eating connect us across political and cultural borders. Tickets for the San Francisco event in collaboration with Heath Ceramics on Monday October 29 are now on sale: https://madmondaysatheath.eventbrite.com/
Stay tuned and keep an eye on our website for news on tickets for our New York and London events!

13/10/2018

The “Children’s Section” of Lorenzo’s Library is growing! It began with Alain Ducasse’s Cooking for Kids, and has since been joined by The Kids’ Turn to Cook, by Wellington and Wairarapa based food writer Margaret Brooker, and a vintage copy of Wellington chef Des Britten’s Gourmet Cooking for Babies. And there’s child-sized cooking implements courtesy of Vintage Treasure in Martinborough, New Zealand.

07/10/2018

This is exciting, issue 1 of You and I Eat the Same. Is a collection of food essays brought together by the team at MAD ( https://www.madfeed.co/ ) please check out the videos they have on YouTube of the symposium they hold annually for some great thinkers of the food world.

04/10/2018

Chefs table season 5 on Netflix is out!! One of the episodes features Albert Adria who is best known for his part in the famous restaurant El Bulli. I try and keep this very hard to find book in stock as it’s one of the most amazing books I’ve seen in a while. We also stock other books from Chefs featured on chefs table... Massimo Bottura, Grant Achatz, El Cellar de Can Roca and Will Goldfarb !!

02/10/2018

Wow, can’t wait for this, If you haven’t seen or heard of her book then you are missing out on a kitchen essential, Simon Nosrat ( formerly of Chez Panisse ) brings a cooking master class from her book to the screen, we always keep a copy of her book in stock and I commonly use this as a reference point , first third of the book discusses the 4 elements of good cooking the rest is awesome recipes!! ( of note too the book has no photos at all! But some very clever illustration )

01/10/2018

New to Lorenzo’s this week IGNI,A restaurant’s first year. Is a fascinating insight into the Geelong (Melbourne) restaurant by Chef Aaron Turner which regularly features in the top 20 restaurants in Australia lists. The book is made up of recipes but also many personal diary entries from the restaurants first year and also prior to opening. The book is beautifully presented with stunning photography by Julian Kingma and the diary entries are raw and un-edited giving you the highs and lows experienced by many chefs and restaurateur at this level. A great read for anyone interested in the lives of chefs and restaurants.

30/09/2018

A big warm welcome from Will and I here at Lorenzo's library! We are a small independent startup here in Martinborough, Located within Vintage Treasurers we offer a carefully selected range of culinary readings and cookbooks for Professional Chefs, home cooks/bakers or any food enthusiasts. Our selection includes some of the newest releases from round the world to some vintage classics. More to come