Big, bold beautiful cookbook with over 100 recipes from New Zealand's most awarded bistro.
Natalia Schamroth and Carl Koppenhagen have run the award-winning The Engine Room in Northcote Point for seven years. Carl cooks and Natalia runs front-of-house. Their philosophy is 'good damn honest food and cooking with heart and soul'. No wonder it's booked out almost every night of the week. Their pedigree is impressive. Natalia trained at AUT and then worked abroad for 10 years. In New Zealand she's worked at the famous Metropole, she set up Cafeteria Allpress, and was co-owner of Reuben Cafe. In London she cooked at Tabac and The Prince Bonaparte, and she's cooked privately for Ruth and Richard Rogers (of the River Cafe), Nicholas Coleridge and Jonathan Newhouse (of Conde Nast) and Kate Moss. In Sydney she cooked at Paramount with Christine Manfield, at The Boat House with Tony Papas and at Sean's Panaroma with Sean Moran. Carl also trained at AUT and worked in New Zealand at Metropole. He spent six years as a chef in various London restaurants. Natalia and Carl have have ben published by Delicious and Mindfood magazines and have worked with Fisher and Paykel on The Social Kitchen.
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