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Hoax Cuisine : Faking It in the Kitchen
Ladies, take the stage. It's time to eliminate those niggling earth mother demons and recapture domestic brownie points.
It's time to fake the bake and take the credit. It's time for Hoax Cuisine!
Hoax Faking it in the Kitchen is the overworked woman's guide to catering deceit. With her usual irreverent humour, Maggie Groff answers the anguished cry of 'what will I cook for dinner?' from working mothers and busy women across the country.
She shows how easy it is to create fantastic feasts and gorgeous gourmet delights for family and friends in lightning quick time, achieving the status of culinary legend in mere minutes.
The world's first cookery book dedicated to 'hoax cuisine' is divided into such chapters as cooked chickens, school fetes and cake stalls, Christmas, seafood, vegetables and soups.
It's time to fake the bake and take the credit. It's time for Hoax Cuisine!
Hoax Faking it in the Kitchen is the overworked woman's guide to catering deceit. With her usual irreverent humour, Maggie Groff answers the anguished cry of 'what will I cook for dinner?' from working mothers and busy women across the country.
She shows how easy it is to create fantastic feasts and gorgeous gourmet delights for family and friends in lightning quick time, achieving the status of culinary legend in mere minutes.
The world's first cookery book dedicated to 'hoax cuisine' is divided into such chapters as cooked chickens, school fetes and cake stalls, Christmas, seafood, vegetables and soups.
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First published March 1, 2012
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About the author
Maggie Groff
10 books35 followersMaggie Groff is a multi-award-winning novelist, columnist and non-fiction writer living and working in Australia. She is the author of two non-fiction books: the best-selling Mothers Behaving Badly (1999) which showcased her hilarious experiences as a mother, and Hoax Cuisine (2001) which garnered a loyal following and led to a regular column in Fairfax weekend newspapers.
Her first novel Mad Men, Bad Girls (originally titled Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute) was published in 2012 and received rave reviews. It was nominated for the Ned Kelly Award and went on to win both Australian Sisters in Crime 13th Davitt Awards for crime fiction – Best First Fiction and Best Adult Novel. Her second novel Good News, Bad News was also published to high acclaim and voted one of the top fifty books you can’t put down in the 2013 Australian Get Reading Campaign. Both novels have been published internationally.
Maggie’s latest book Not Your Average Nurse is a memoir of her richly-varied career working as a nurse at some of the world’s most iconic locations. Publication date is May 2017 in the UK and Australia.
Her first novel Mad Men, Bad Girls (originally titled Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute) was published in 2012 and received rave reviews. It was nominated for the Ned Kelly Award and went on to win both Australian Sisters in Crime 13th Davitt Awards for crime fiction – Best First Fiction and Best Adult Novel. Her second novel Good News, Bad News was also published to high acclaim and voted one of the top fifty books you can’t put down in the 2013 Australian Get Reading Campaign. Both novels have been published internationally.
Maggie’s latest book Not Your Average Nurse is a memoir of her richly-varied career working as a nurse at some of the world’s most iconic locations. Publication date is May 2017 in the UK and Australia.
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