Food & Drink

One-Pot French: More than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes

Like her Food Network cooking show, French Food at Home, Laura Calder’s second cookbook, French Taste, is, in essence, a primer on basic Gallic cooking aimed at people who are intimidated by the kitchen. Detractors ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

★ Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient

By Jennifer McLagan

Proponents of low-fat diets have routinely represented animal fats such as butter, lard, beef tallow, chicken skin, suet, and others as veritable poisons to be ruthlessly excised from our diets. Turns out, says Jennifer McLagan ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Anita Stewart’s Canada: The Food, the Recipes, the Stories

By Anita Stewart

Anita Stewart is a renowned authority on Canadian cuisine. Her 2000 book The Flavours of Canada was one of the best surveys of Canadian cooking ever published, omitting only the far North in a surprisingly ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, a Search for the Perfect Meat

By Susan Bourette

For Taras Grescoe, the decline of the oceans is personally distressing. A self-described “piscavore” (fish eater) for 10 years running, the Montreal-based food and travel writer is nothing if not adventurous: over the course of ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

An Apple a Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths About the Foods We Eat

By Joe Schwarcz

In An Apple a Day, Joe Schwarcz, who holds a PhD in chemistry and lectures on food science at McGill University, aims to guide consumers in their dietary decisions by casting the light of science ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Donut: A Canadian History

By Steve Penfold

The strange thing about University of Toronto historian Steve Penfold’s new book, The Donut: A Canadian History, is that you can get through its 200-odd pages without ever experiencing a craving for a donut. Not ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Pure Food: How to Shop, Cook and Have Fun in Your Kitchen Every Day

By Christine Cushing

Christine Cushing, a Torontonian with a history as a restaurant cook and food educator, hosted Christine Cushing Live on the Food Network and Dish It Out on the Life Network. She also produces a line ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Dish Entertains: Everyday Simple to Special Occasions

By Trish Magwood

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill

By Pino Posteraro

Chef Pino Posteraro hails originally from Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot. He has cooked in Toronto, Singapore, and throughout Italy. In 1999, he opened his Vancouver restaurant, Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, recognized since then as ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

By Annie Watts, Dolly Watts

Dolly and Annie Watts – mother and daughter, respectively – are descended from chiefs of B.C.’s Gitk’san First Nation. From 1995 until earlier this year, they ran one of only two restaurants of its kind ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

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