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ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for keen cooks, breathing life back into out-of-print cookbooks. Get unlimited access to more than 800 cookbooks, available in full via the ckbk website and app. ckbk includes more than 130,000 recipes. You can search based on what’s in your fridge, post… Read more

Providoor Food Delivery Service

To tempt your tastebuds, this new look food delivery service offers a selection of signature dishes from well-known Australian chefs reproduced in collaboration with the Providoor team. Order either hot or frozen items for delivery to your doorstep The Christine Manfield range includes: coconut… Read more

Culinary Wonderland

Culinary Wonderland is a digital platform dedicated to chefs, cooks, sommeliers, mixologists, baristas, and culinarycurators from all over the globe to deliver a fully immersive user experience for food enthusiasts. Christine has joined the Culinary Wonderland digital platform dedicated to chefs, cooks, sommeliers, mixologists, baristas, and… Read more

Gourmand Awards 2023

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Bookshop Darlinghurst Literary Dinner

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Christine Manfield on Deep In The Weeds Podcast

Leaving Sydney in early 2020 to settle into coastal life on the Tweed Coast just as lockdown landed proved serendipitous for Australian culinary icon Christine Manfield. Having the time to settle into her new lifestyle gave her time to reflect and focus on how to move forward, to be… Read more

Christine Manfield at Sparkke at the Whitmore

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The Christine Manfield Interview: The Tweed, travel and 2021

By Amanda Woods. First published on Adventures All Around, 5th December 2020. Last weekend I headed to the Northern Rivers of New South Wales for the third Tweed Artisan Food Weekend, an event that brings together farmers, producers and chefs to celebrate the foodie paradise that is… Read more

Christine joins Palisa Anderson at her farm for the first episode of her new TV series

Palisa Anderson serves up food to feed your heart and soul in her debut TV series. New Series Palisa Anderson’s Water Heart Food premieres on SBS Food Sunday November 29 at 7pm Watch the promo here. Travel with restaurateur and Byron Bay farmer Palisa Anderson across Australia as she explores her early… Read more

Regionality Farm2Plate Exchange 

Regionality Newsletter     More Info Click here Register Now https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/farm2plate-exchange-australia-2021-tickets-97241581187?mc_eid=ad2f4096b1&mc_cid=f7fff4a1e4… Read more

The Weekend Australian: Taste Sensations – A Marlborough Food Odyssey with Christine Manfield

By Maggie Scardifield. Published in The Weekend Australia in September 2019. A fallen 600-year-old totara tree is our footbridge across Spring Creek, which winds its way through the Marlborough Lodge estate, in the northeast of New Zealand’s South Island, and out to Cloudy Bay on Marlborough’s east coast. Read more

Delicious Magazine: Rome – Travels in the Eternal City

Published in Delicious Magazine in August 2019. Photography by Susan Wright. Each time chef Christine Manfield travels to the Eternal City, its ancient walls reveal a new and exhilarating side. Follow her lead – and your nose – through the Italian capital, listen to the locals and you’ll… Read more

Cooking Classes with Christine

Talk Eat Drink 27th June During this 2 hour class, Christine will lead you through a menuof traditional and contemporary home style recipes from her latest book Tasting India, inspired by spice and driven by flavour. More info click here… Read more

A Taste of Harmony

I am proud to be a Hero Ambassador for A Taste of Harmony, which recognises and celebrates cultural diversity in the workplace. Join me in taking part by encouraging your team mates at work to bring a plate of food representing their cultural background. Let’s start these important conversations and learn more… Read more

The Australian Women’s Weekly: Christine’s Indian Feasting

First published in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 28th December 2018. Photography by John Paul Urizar and Styling by Michele Cranston. To celebrate the release of her cookbook, Tasting India, Christine Manfield cooks a spicy Indian summer feast featuring heirloom family recipes from her travels. Click… Read more

Good Weekend: Free Range

By Brook Turner. First published in SMH and The Age, Good Weekend, 1st December 2018. Photography by Peter Brew Bevan. She was one of our top cooks long before anyone started talking about getting more women in the kitchen. She fused East and West before most realised it… Read more

How Indians really cook.

By Neha Kale. First published in SBS, 3rd November 2018. “Usually people think about Indian cuisine in a really monosyllabic way, focussing on the few dishes that sum up Indian cuisine which does it a disservice — I wanted to paint a picture of the diversity that is really… Read more

My favourite cookbook: Christine Manfield

By Emma Breheny. First published in Gourmet Traveller, 9th November 2018. Christine Manfield nominates not one but three books, as part of our occasional series where we ask some of our favourite chefs about the cookbook that’s left a lasting impression on them. Christine Manfield is surrounded by recipes. Read more

New podcast – Christine Manfield, Tasting India, Universal

By Lee Tran Lam. First published in The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry, 3rd November 2018. $10,099 – that’s how much someone is asking for their copy of Christine Manfield’s Tasting India cookbook on Amazon. Sure, India Today called it the book to give native newlywed couples once they head… Read more

Mare a Montagna Italia 2018

An indulgent Italian Food & Walking Safari visiting Puglia in Southern Italy and the Dolomite Mountains in the northern region near the Austrian border. The 2018 trip through Puglia and the Dolomites was the ideal opportunity for food lovers and keen cooks to immerse themselves in the region’s rich food… Read more

Cooks Co-op Episodes

Cooks Co-op episode 26 – the finale – is live on YouTube, here: click here In this final episode of Cooks Co-op, Gerry Harvey returns to Cooks Co-op for a producers lunch with Martin Boetz and his chef friends who featured in the series. Cooks Co-op episode 5 – A Chef’s secret recipe to soul-warming vegetable… Read more

Restaurants worth travelling for

Published in Signature Luxury Travel and Style magazine volume 30. There are some dishes, chefs and dining experiences that are worth building your whole itinerary around. We asked some of Australia’s most respected chefs to recommend the restaurants they would go out of their way to experience again. Christine… Read more

Cooking the Books at the Cooks Co-op – Rustic Italian Menu

Following the run-away success of the second season of Cooking the Books, we are taking it to the Farm! Join us at Cooks Co-op on Sunday 29 July at 12.30 pm for a Cooking the Books lunch celebrating rustic Italian recipes from the books of Rose Gray and Ruth… Read more

A Taste of Harmony

We’re thrilled to announce Christine Manfield has joined A Taste of Harmony as a Hero Ambassador, alongside celeb chefs Guy Grossi and Ed Halmagyi, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Huss Mustafa. A Taste of Harmony is celebrating its 10th year in 2018, and is an annual initiative that invites… Read more

The Getting of Wisdom

By Susan Skelly. First published in The Robb Report, November 2017. Embrace fear. Know how much debt you can live with. Be honest about what you don’t know … Gritty advice from mentors can be a career game-changer. We ask four trailblazing women about passing the baton… Read more

How to get a top chef to cater your next dinner party

As a nation of foodies, our hunger for gastronomic highs and bespoke experiences cannot be satisfied. Dan Stock investigates the new culinary craving for top chefs to create private dinner parties in our own homes. For the food obsessed, it is the equivalent of having Kylie Minogue sing at… Read more

Ginger Spice Cream Cookie

In a delicious collaboration with brand ambassador Christine Manfield, Byron Bay Cookies in partnership with Bistro Rex is excited to bring to life a Dessert Pop Up, to introduce guests to the upcoming release of the new Ginger Spice Cream Cookie. Christine… Read more

cm spice collection & videos

Christine’s collection of spice pastes and condiments are designed for the home cook, as a valuable time saving device and to give a speedy and authentic flavour boost to a whole variety of dishes. To check out some quick and easy preparations using pantry staples,… Read more

Gaytime Goes Nuts

There’s something about Gaytime that makes everyone swoon, a dessert that has become synonymous with my name and the menus I have created over the years. My first Gaytime appeared on early menus at Paramount and from 1994 onwards became a permanent fixture, changing form over the years but… Read more

South India Travel

I spent all February doing what I love best – travelling through India, a country that constantly inspires, challenges and engages. New experiences unfolded every day. It constantly amazes me just how generous Indian people are, what wonderful hosts they make, the hospitality they exude. In Kerala, I spent… Read more