The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook

By Linda Ly, Allen & Unwin, hard cover & ebook, 192 pages, $40

Starve your compost and learn how to make the most of fresh produce. This book has 105 seasonal recipes that utilise every edible part of a plant. Linda Ly runs the award-winning blog gardenbetty.com and shares a wide variety of recipes and techniques from creative pickling (think watermelon rind) to perfect pesto.