Rob Feenie Cooks at Lumière

What’s the value of tone in a cookbook? By tone, I mean the figurative song delivered through design that indicates to a prospective audience that, yes, this book and its recipes are for them. Close ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Home for Dinner: Fresh Tastes, Quick Techniques, Easy Cooking

By Lucy Waverman

The world, it seems, is chockablock with people terrified to cook. One wonders how they subsist, unable to boil a yam or sear a steak properly, but then a glance in the grocer’s freezer informs ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Simply Bishop’s: Easy Seasonal Recipes

By John Bishop & Dennis Green

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods

By Anita Stewart, Robert Wigington, photog.

A minor but long-lingering bookselling problem has finally been solved. The question of what to offer gift shoppers looking for attractive yet authoritative books on Canadian cuisine has long been met with helpless shrugs. But ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Recipes of Champions

By Martin Glynn et al.

Scandalous politics and cheating aside, at its very purest, the modern Olympic spirit reaches lofty heights of idealism. As track coach Andy Higgins writes in his introduction to The Recipes of Champions, “every single one ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

High Cuisine: The Cannabis Cookbook

By Barbara Lamb

Rumour has it that food becomes more enjoyable when one is stoned on cannabis, the so-called “munchies.” Truth is, being high doesn’t affect food, just objectivity. A dry saltina is a dry saltina. That it ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Comfort Food Cookbook

By Joanna Burkhard

What food isn’t comforting – at least to someone? Montreal Gazette food columnist Johanna Burkhard ignores just this question in The Comfort Food Cookbook. Her introduction states: “We all have fond memories of cherished recipes ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

By Tony Aspler

Ford Madox Ford began drinking wine seriously when he was eight; Colette when she was 11. Tony Aspler, Canada’s best known wine writer and educator, was bribed by his foster mother with grapes at age ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

★ Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook

By Karen Barnaby

Karen Barnaby, executive chef at Vancouver’s Fish House in Stanley Park, evidently eats with passion, and in Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook, with a dozen real and “fictional” seasonal feast menus, accompanied by numerous other ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

A Passion for Food: Conversations with Canadian Chefs

By Gerry Shikatani

To be articulate with food is a sapid and tactile art. To be articulate about food is something altogether different. A chef capable of sublime brilliance with a sauce can be illiterate. A brilliant writer ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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Rob Feenie Cooks at Lumière

Home for Dinner: Fresh Tastes, Quick Techniques, Easy Cooking

Simply Bishop’s: Easy Seasonal Recipes

The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods

The Recipes of Champions

High Cuisine: The Cannabis Cookbook

The Comfort Food Cookbook

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

★ Karen Barnaby’s Everyday Celebration Cookbook

A Passion for Food: Conversations with Canadian Chefs

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