Set your taste-buds on fire as you embark on a thrilling gastronomic rollercoaster ride that takes you from the pulsating dark heart of Dark Mofo’s spectacular Winter Feast, to the midnight banquets, seductive supper clubs and dark dinners unearthed in the ‘Dark Fringe’, created in honour of Tasmania’s iconic festival of darkness.

Learn how to master the flames with Mona’s Heavy Metal Kitchen and appease your inner glutton with a smorgasbord of sublime fire cooked dishes, before descending into Dante’s Inferno to resurrect your corpses with a cornucopia of cocktails created by some of Tasmania’s most celebrated distilleries and bars.

Brimming full of stunning dark and moody images, this spectacular 596-page ode to the ‘Southern Hemisphere’ Winter and Winter Solstice, contains more than 180 delicious recipes, most of which have been especially recreated for this cookbook – including from Mona’s Heavy Metal Kitchen, inspired chef collaborations from the Dark Mofo Winter Feast and other feasts of darkness. Sinners can also find tips on how to make the perfect cocktail, what to forage for, and when and what to grow for their Winter Table, as well as some suggestions of how to use their Winter produce.

Winter Wild also celebrates some of the world’s most ancient Winter Solstice sites, ceremonies and rituals, as well as exploring what different cultures eat at this auspicious time. Divinely, Winter Wild also contains two deliciously dark tales shared by professional storyteller Martin Maudsley from Dorset, who at the Huon Valley + Willie Smith’s Mid-Winter Fest in Tasmania, held the enraptured audiences in the palm of his hands. Are you ready? Snuggle up by a roaring fire and pour yourself a hot whisky toddy - Winter has never been cooler!