'Manfield's writing is palpably exciting.
Her infectious style makes her easy
to like, so she has the game of
educating all sewn up.'
SIMEON KRONENBERG, OUTRAGE

THE BOOKS
Her ongoing Paramount philosophy “the pursuit of excellence” is also manifest in Christine Manfield's writing. Open any one of her successful cookery books and you will discover her personal exploration of flavour, texture and cooking methods that blend intelligently and carefully to create original food.

Her fifth book Fire focusing on her culinary adventures as a curious traveller is due for international release in August 2008, Penguin Lantern Books.

Christine Manfield Desserts, a soft cover version of Paramount Desserts was released in April 2004. It offers a seductive insight into the delicious world of desserts (Viking/Penguin, 1997) that was an instant success. One of the Top Ten non-fiction bestsellers in that year, short-listed for the 1998 Australian Book Design Awards and nominated for the 1998 Julia Child ICAP Awards in USA.

Stir is an easy-to-use manual of recipes conceived to accompany the CHRISTINE MANFIELD SPICE COLLECTION Christine's range of 18 spice pastes. It is designed as a home cooks' companion to facilitate the use of simple minimum effort cooking methods for maximum flavour. With photos by Ashley Barber, Stir was runner up for excellence of food photography at the prestigious 2002 James Beard Awards in New York.

Christine's third book SPICE (Viking/Penguin, 1999) is a personal odyssey, a working bible, a discovery of the sensual world of spices and their central role in the culinary arena. It earned her the title, Mistress of Spice! SPICE won the Silver Award for Best Hardcover International Recipe Book at the 1999 Tasting Australia World Food Media Awards. It also won the Best Design for a Hardcover Cookbook at the 2000 Australian Book Design Awards. Spice is now available in the new look soft cover edition published in February 2005.

Christine's first book Paramount Cooking (Viking/Penguin, 1995) documents the development of ideas, processes and methodology that was Paramount Restaurant. The book became an international bestseller with several editions since its original release. It was nominated and short-listed for the 1996 Australian Book Design Awards and for the acclaimed international 1996 Julia Child Awards. Since 2005 it has been published in soft cover as Christine Manfield Originals

'Paramount Cooking reeks of strong flavours, with no pretty garnishes and no false  modesty. It is bold, imaginative and uncompromising, like the author and her restaurant.'

JILL DUPLEIX, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

During her career Christine has also had material published in a number of cooking anthologies including The New Flavours of Asia (Millennium Books, 1996) Food of Australia (Periplus Editions, 1995) New Great Dishes of the World by Robert Carrier (Macmillan, 1997). Her work also regularly features in Australian, American, European and British culinary magazines. She wrote a food column for Appetites in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers for 10 years and was also food writer for the Australian Financial Review until 2005.