Recipes and tips from the highly popular Akaroa Cooking School - plus the stunning scenery of Banks Peninsula.

Beautiful harbour and town vistas plus the wisdom of two creative cooks combine to produce a book of recipes, information and stunning photography.

With over 100 delicious recipes used in the cooking school, plus tips on giving dinner parties, buying and cooking fish, the perfect barbecue, canapes and cocktails, and Asian-inspired cookery, this is a book chock full of useful and beautiful material.

With recipes that vary from simple courgette and feta fritters, or little bacon and egg tarts, through to sticky twice-cooked Asian pork ribs and a decadent dark chocolate mousse cake with raspberry coulis, vanilla mascarpone and pistachio crumb, there are dishes to tempt everyone.