ON MY BOOKSTAND

XXL: Epic Food, Street Eats & Cult Dishes from Around the World by Billy Law, Simon & Schuster, $45, 200 pages, hardback (on sale 1 August) What’s in it: A manly, meaty line-up of ultra-tasty snacks, burgers, mains, desserts and drinks that could, quite possibly, require upsizing your pants. Buy it for: A Father’s Day gift for a foodloving dude who couldn’t give a toss about clean eating or calories.

What to expect: Doughnut burgers, fried cheese balls, turducken, five-tier pavlova.