Malibu Farm Cookbook: Recipes from the California Coast

This is a charming cookbook. The author is a wonderful storyteller: her Malibu is "where goats are beach bums..." and she provides the photo to prove it. If you're into honey or goats, you will absolutely love this book, because her writing about honey and beekeeping, as well as goats and goat-cheese-making, is not only delightful but I hope useful to those just getting started. Not to mention keeping chickens or pigs! Most of her recipes and ingredients are simple and accessible, and her veggie and seafood recipes are lovely. For those who live on a coast, especially the left one, or have access to excellent seafood, I'm pretty sure that you'd absolutely love this book. The veggie recipes are excellent. I also love that she's not a pastry snob: she buys her bread from a local artisan. However, although she says that the pastry recipes in the book are all "mix and pour," that's not exactly correct: panna cotta and caramel sauce do require a bit more technique than "mix and pour," however, they're still possible even for the first-timer, and she provides adequate instructions that one hopes will get us through the recipe. A charming, endearing, and useful cookbook! Kindle format review: 5 stars: Clickable index, clickable embedded recipes, and chickable TOC (although only to chapter titles, not recipes therein).

I bought this book for my friend who live in Austria for her birthday present. She loves this book, because She could feel California (from articles and beautiful pictures) and try to cook California meals.

I visited this restaurant, and I was amazed with the food - so unique and fresh. I found the cookbook on line when I returned. It is an amazing way to capture the restaurant and experience it over and over. The photography is outstanding, and there are lots of stories around the recipes and the restaurant. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

I’m head over heels in love with Malibu Farm Cafe and Restaurant. A meal at the Malibu Pier is my definition of paradise. Thankfully, a lot of the recipes are documented in The Malibu Farm Cookbook. The book provides a look at Helene Henderson’s life and the evolution from caterer to farmer to dinner host to private chef to restaurant owner. The food style is local, fresh, and laid back. I received a copy of Malibu Farm Cookbook in exchange for a honest review.

Hilarious attitude/sass from the writer of the book without being crass (which I highly appreciate!)Very creative - a lot of heart - I could not have loved this more!I love how Californians eat and I wanted a CA cookbook and found this one.It totally captures California's farm to table ways.I am highly appreciative of this wonderful, beautifully presented work and cannot wait to continue cooking from it!! <3

Love the restaurant and the cookbook! Fabulous easy to prepare farm to table meals. The personal touch and story of Helene invites you in to an experience.

I love this cookbook, every recipe we've made so far as been a huge success. The book is coffee-table worthy with hundreds of pages and beautiful photos of food and scenes from malibu. Malibu Farm was one of my favorite restaurants when I lived in CA, I'm so happy to keep a piece of it with me through this cookbook.

Beautiful photos, great recipes, I miss California and it brings back great memories!

Very honest cookbook with amasing flavors! Not too many ingredients and easy to make for all home cooks! I 100% recommend this gem! However, if you do not like veggies! The TMZ salad 😍😍 refreshing

Incredible recipes! Love this book!

Recipes awesome everyone loves it

Love the photosLove the recipes

Bought this following a trip to Malibu Farm cafe which was awesome. This book gives a lot of the recipes and dishes they serve, and has so far proved very popular in our household! We've definitely been able to keep a part of Cali in the UK!