Cool: The Story of Ice Cream

Most people just eat ice cream. They buy it in a cone one muggy day, consuming the majority before its chocolatey contents melt messily onto their beach towels. Within moments, it’s as if the crème ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia

By Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret

This cookbook is based on recipes from the cooking school and restaurant at Trout Point Lodge in Nova Scotia. The authors’ goal is to use fresh, organic local ingredients while maintaining a connection with the ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

By Austin Clarke

It’s like cooking through a plastic bag, the way we spin our food round and round in silent electric mixers and turn to hand-held presses and precision-cut slicers to avoid scenting and staining our fingertips. ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Cook This: Recipes for the Goodtime Girl

By Amy Rosen

The target audience for this cookbook is the post-university, single, female, Sex and the City wannabe. Although freelance writer Amy Rosen is cordon bleu-trained and the recipes she offers might have unlimited appeal for all ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Solo Chef

By Betty-Jane Wylie

Of the making of cookbooks there is no end. Because of the changing rhythms of our working lives, the ever-growing concern about unhealthy diets and the constant desire to keep up with edible trends, the ... Read More »