Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

When David met Bonnie

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It’s a March evening in Toronto’s upscale Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood, and the well-known cooking instructor and cookbook author Bonnie Stern is holding court inside her tiny, amber-hued culinary school, gently ushering the participants of ... Read More »

May 31, 2006

The missing cookbooks

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Food and drink may be one of the most niche-friendly categories in publishing, with titles for countless ingredients, courses, dishes, diets, and regions of the world. But there may still be room for more. Q&Q ... Read More »

May 31, 2006

Finding the money

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From bake sales to appeals for large capital donations, private-sector fundraising has long been a fact of life for Canadian public libraries. But in February of this year the Toronto Public Library Foundation took things ... Read More »

May 31, 2006

Meet the partnership

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The Canadian library field has always been inclined to pool efforts; it’s thick with associations at all levels. But right now, the heads of the various provincial and territorial library associations across the country are ... Read More »

May 31, 2006

A public space

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When the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BANQ) decided to launch an international design competition for a grand new central library in a gritty part of downtown Montreal, the institution came up with a ... Read More »

May 31, 2006

Fixing the label

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I grew up with a passion for reading, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t until high school that I made the startling discovery that contemporary life right here in Canada, not just in the U.S. ... Read More »

May 31, 2006