For the fourteenth issue of delicious. on Sunday, which appears in Stellar magazine, we catch up with Anthony Bourdain in New York. The globe-trotting TV host, best-selling author and former badass chef is back with his first cookbook in a decade. After an existence on the margins, and a relentless travel schedule, the doting dad says he is ready to embrace a normal family life.

In our weekly meal plan, Matt Moran applies his culinary verve to dishes that are inspired by takeaway but are infinitely tastier and more nutritious. Moran’s souped-up dishes include mini lamb kebabs, steak sandwiches, and crispy skin butter chicken, all prepared with a deft touch to impress your guests. Meanwhile, in his regular column, Matt Preston reviews all the superfluous kitchen tools, from prawn deveiners to zucchini corers, that one should avoid when shopping for Christmas gifts.

delicious. on Sunday also includes the latest news and reviews for each state on the eastern seaboard. In this week’s NSW edition, Anthony Huckstep visits the vibrant, Vermouth-flavoured Banksii in Sydney. For the VIC paper, Dan Stock visits Mexican-themed Hotel Jesus, while Anooska Tucker-Evans savours the yakitori at Bird’s Nest in Brisbane for the QLD edition. (All the reviews live on delicious.com.au.)

delicious. on Sunday appears in Stellar every weekend. Stellar is available in The Sunday Telegraph in New South Wales, the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria, and The Sunday Mail in Queensland.

If you want to make it a Stellar Sunday, be sure to #makeitdelicious, too!