The Gretta Anna Recipes

Although known throughout Sydney by her first names, it was her husband David who says  ‘it was my idea for Gretta to do a cookbook’.  At that time she was young, she had three children, and there was already the cooking school. She was so generous, simply giving away her recipes, that a cookbook was definitely needed – and it would sell!

Self-published, with only 5000 copies in 1978, it became the foundation of an ongoing career for Gretta, and countless dinner parties for students and their friends! Her cuisine was classical French and in more than 30 years she taught over 35,000 women in her Gretta Anna Teplitzky School of Continental Cookery.

Her carrot cake and apple strudel became legends, along with French onion soup, bouillabaisse and coq au vin and many, many more.