Tasteful

Flavoursome food to share with style at your table

NAOMI CRISANTE

Photography Joshua Lynott

My book will help you to:

Create Good-Looking, Great-tasting meals •

Tasteful is Best in the World

I am so delighted to announce that Tasteful has been awarded Best in the World for Food Styling at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

The awards, based in Paris, are in their 29th year and award the best food books, drink books and food television of the year.

The official ceremony is held in a different country each year.

This year there were entrants from 205 countries and the award ceremony took place in Riyadh as part of the Saudi Feast Food Festival.

It is an honour for my book, that is all about good-looking and great-tasting food, to be awarded in the Food Styling category.

WHAT OTHERS THINK...

Beautifully illustrated, this HANDSOME book is full of practical COOKING TIPS as well as wine suggestions to match with the food. Photographer, Josh Lynott, has created STUNNING images of the DELICIOUS DISHES. So please, make yourself COMFORTABLE, open Naomi’s book and allow yourself to be transported to a world of BEAUTIFUL FOOD that will INSPIRE you in your future cooking ADVENTURES.

Naomi's creations are borne from LOVE. Love of FAMILY. Love of CREATION. Love of food and all that goes with it, while whisking you away on a CULINARY EXPEDITION of her MEDITERRANEAN HEART.

Naomi's recipes reflect a LOVE OF LEARNING from all corners of the globe, so they are wide-ranging but always with the signature NAOMI TWIST. Even on days when cooking feels too much, I always turn to her recipes because I know they ALWAYS WORK and put a SMILE on my face.

It’s given me back my CONFIDENCE in the kitchen and enabled me to IMPRESS my guests at dinner parties. I always RAVE to my family, friends and work colleagues about Naomi’s FOOL-PROOF recipes.

Hello, I'm Naomi Crisante, and I have been a cooking teacher, recipe developer and food stylist for over 35 years...

I’ve cooked on TV, worked with countless brands, and created GOOD COOKS through my cooking classes and Foodcentric website.

My hardcover cookbook, TASTEFUL, is a culmination of my professional experience, worldwide travels and Mediterranean heritage.

The HEART of my cooking is to give people pleasure through memorable, shared experiences and to encourage others to do the same.

Be inspired by Joshua Lynott’s BEAUTIFUL photographs throughout the book and know that your food will look like the pictures too!

Cooking doesn't have to be a chore...

Research tells us that many people are very OVERWHELMED about the idea of what to cook, and that 9 out of 10 would like to be more CREATIVE in the kitchen.

Most people have less than 10 recipes in their repertoire and think of it as a CHORE.

Let’s make it a PLEASURE.

I believe that anyone can learn to cook creatively.
All it takes is RELIABLE recipes, and a little guidance.

Every one of my recipes is LIFE-TESTED. They are the meals I have served to my family and friends, and taught to my students.

I know you will enjoy exploring, cooking and sharing them, and that you, too, will be APPLAUDED for good-looking, great-tasting food served with style at YOUR table.