Book excerpt: A diverse and generous group of Australian chefs and cooks share their essential recipes. Created in conjunction with ABC TV, Short Cuts to Glory is the ultimate cookbook for anyone leaving home, becoming independent, or just wanting to impress with minimal kitchen stress. A diverse and generous group of Australian chefs and cooks share their essential recipes, along with step-by-step tips methods and plenty of tips and tricks to help inexperienced home cooks create the best-ever version, plus some variations for good measure. Structured in themed chapters such as The Basics, Last Minute Meals, Date Night and Feed and Army to reflect the TV series, which will be aired over 10 weeks on ABC2, starting in mid-April 2017. Contributors, many with a massive media presence, include: Adriana Zumbo, Miguel Maestre, Colin Fassnidge, Neil Perry, Justine Schofield, Hayden Quinn, Tom Walton, Christine Manfield, Giovanni Pilu, Monday Morning Cooking Club, Jill Dupleix, Martin Boetz, Stefano Manfredi, Mark Best, Brigitte Hafner, Bernard Chu.