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How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food - British writer Nigella Lawson has a lovely down to earth approach to food. While some cookbook writers get snooty about making your own stock (who has the time) Lawson acknowledges that she often uses bouillon powder. This is as much fun to .... Sublime Vegetarian - Remember when being a vegetarian meant you were stuck with stodgy food without any flavour? Not any more. In fact, for reasons of health, even non-vegetarians like to go meatless once in a while. If you've ever dropped in on one of the Chefs.... Hot Elements: Great Food from the Fire Chef's Kitchen - His first and highly successful cookbook was The Fire Chef. Now, Captain David Veljacic, Vancouver's champion firefighter and barbecue chef presents a collection of recipes he developed over years of cooking for his family, friends and his .... Vegetable Heaven - Mollie Katzen first came to fame as the author of the Moosewood Cookbook (one of the ten best- selling cookbooks of all time). if you're new to her style of cooking, cook up some fare from Vegetable Heaven and you'll understand why she has so.... New Food Fast - Readers of Gourmet and Bon Appetit will know that some of the liveliest food in the world currently comes from Australia. One of the best known names from downunder is Donna Hay. She's written a series of books, all highly recommended. .... Cooking At My House - If you've ever eaten at his wonderful restaurant, Bishop's, you'll know how passionate John Bishop is about food. Well, now imagine the kind of cuisine he cooks at home. You can do better than that, thanks to this book, you can recreate his .... Herbs for the Pacific Northwest - Imagine nodding off to sleep on a pillow filled with dried lavender. Or scenting your bath with rose geranium leaves. Or making pesto for your pasta with fresh basil straight from the garden (or the pot on the windowsill). From the lemon verbena used in p.... How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food - This is a terrific book--and at almost 1,000 pages, a terrifically big book. Inside it is almost everything you'll ever want to make. Everyday dishes like pastas and hamburgers. Fancy dinner party fare such as Butterflied Leg of Lamb, and.... Tin Fish Gourmet - "What a brilliant idea!" That's what everyone said when Barbara-Jo, owner of Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks put together a recipe collection based on canned fish. As Barbara-Jo says in the introduction: "What if you're simply too tired after .... HeartSmart Cooking for Family and Friends - It's easy enough to cut down fat at regular meals. Not as easy when you've invited the gang over. What you ask yourself after you've tried a few of Bonnie's recipes is how come something that's good for you can taste so delicious? Among .... The Lazy Gourmet - Can you spell N-a-n-a-i-m-o B-a-r-s? Yum! If you're a true Vancouverite, you've probably eaten them at the source. Yup, caterer Susan Mendelson is the person to thank for bringing this delectable West Coast treat to public attention, and hers still set.... Cuisine Rapide: A Classic Cookbook from the 60-Minute Gourmet - All the dishes in this superb cookbook--from hot appetizers to cold soufflés--can be made in under an hour. That's the first thing you need to know. The second is that the late Pierre Franey learned the basics of cooking in his native France, and becam.... Chicken! Chicken! Chicken! and More Chicken! - Chicken is a favourite weeknight dish in most meat-eating households. It's fast, it's cheap, it's tasty, it's healthy--and it's all too easy to get bored with the same old grilled chicken breast. Originally published in the 80s, and now thoroughly upda.... Well Preserved - Why spend a ton of money on jams, preserves and pickles when making your own is so easy? In this comprehensive book, Vancouver writer Mary Anne Dragan tells you all you need to know. Capture the flavour of strawberries and raspberries in their prime. .... Ginger Tea Makes Friends, Flash in the Pan, and Fear of Frying - Long before James Barber was The Urban Peasant of TV fame, he wrote these simple little cookbooks. Now ("and finally," say folks whose copies have almost fallen apart from use) they're back in print. The food isn't fancy, but it's reliably good, and Ba.... Kitchen Confidential - "Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys," goes the old country 'n western song. Read this book, and you'll want to keep your sons and daughters out of professional kitchens too. Bourdain, a New York chef, spills the beans with gusto. It's a.... Chefs in the Market Cookbook - If you've ever wandered around Granville Island on a Sunday afternoon, you've likely sat in on fascinating food demonstrations hosted by Vancouver food consultants and chefs, Bill Jones and Stephen Wong. This book gathers together all the fruits of tho.... Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy - This book is for the guy in your life--especially if he thinks the fridge is simply the place where you stick the six-packs. How to transform simple ingredients into killer meals is the basic idea. Fool-Proof Pasta is perfect dating material, say the a.... The Wine Lover Cooks - Normally, you map out the menu first, then you pick the wine to go with it. Not these two. They do it the other way round. First, well-known Canadian wine writer Aspler selects a wine. Then noted cookbook writer Sloan matches food to it. As well as bei.... Vegetables You Used To Hate! - Talk about a provocative title! From artichokes to zucchini, this cookbook is an A to Z guide to the veggies that once made you cringe. Ever been forced to finish your brussels sprouts, or choke down some parsnips? You'll give them a second chance once.... The Global Grill - "Think globally...grill locally!" is Toronto food writer Kathleen Sloan's advice. These recipes are so tempting, you'll immediately want to fire up the barbie--something we can do almost year-round in Vancouver. People have been cooking food over open .... Zest for Life - "Classic dishes for family and friends from the '50s to the '80s" is the subtitle of Diane Clement's engaging look at how she, and the rest of us who live in Vancouver, have eaten over the past few decades. In this combination cookbook and memoir, Clem.... Can You Take the Heat? - Wham, bam cooking from those big muscled types in the World Wrestling Federation might not sound too promising. After all, what do wrestlers know about food? Plenty, it turns out. This is real life cooking from larger-than-life guys with none of your f.... Toscana Mia: The Heart and Soul of Tuscan Cooking - "Under a moon bright sky, spirited conversation echoes off walls that have stood since the 16th century. Wine splashes into a glass and its scent mingles with the aroma of wood fire, roasted meat, wild herbs and night-blooming flowers. It is a typical .... Parties and Projects for the Holidays - Need we say more? Fans of Martha won't need convincing. Everyone else should still take a look at the latest ideas from North America's most talented homemaker. Theming her book around five parties means a series of game plans you can follow to the let.... Bills Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner - One of the most popular spots in Sydney, Australia, is a sunny little café called Bills. It's not posh but, oh my, the food is good, especially the ricotta hotcakes. This book has the recipe for those, as well as sweetcorn fritters with roast tomato an.... The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook - Twelve hundred recipes! 592 pages! Does this woman ever sleep? Strictly speaking, these aren't new recipes. They're collected from the first ten years of her magazine. So, if you have to root through a tottering pile of Martha Stewart Livings every tim.... Flavours - One, two, three, all together now....we LOVE Donna Hay. Her highly original take on food makes it possible for all of us to cook like professionals, never mind how strapped we are for time. Hay is the hottest young cookbook author in Australia, and her.... Jamie Kennedy's Seasons - Here's a chef confident enough to give all his secrets away. Ontario culinary genius, Jamie Kennedy makes it all look so easy. And, in fact, if your budget will stretch to the best ingredients, your favourite room is the kitchen, and you've got the cou.... The Savoury Mushroom - Even the most amateur cook knows there are many more mushroom varieties than the simple white button. Portobellos, oysters, and chanterelles are increasingly showing up on produce shelves. But, if you know where to look--and what to look for--you'll fi.... Eating Shakespeare - If you've ever wondered what Romeo fed Juliet, and Ophelia whipped up for Hamlet, sorry, you won't find it here. But what you will discover are authentic recipes from Shakespeare's time cleverly adapted to work in today's kitchens. Pity our poor ancest.... Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through South-East Asia - Whenever we get sick of the rain, we turn to a book by Alford and Duguid. When they're not in Toronto, this couple is on the road in Asia, exploring, wandering--and above all, eating. Previous books have focused on flat breads and rice. This time aroun.... The Food of Italy - Yet another Italian cookbook--but this is one well worth adding to your library. It's stunning. Apart from the hundreds of colour photographs, the pages are filled with recipes for just about every one of our favourite Italian foods. Find out how to ma.... In the Sweet Kitchen - This is one of the most informative baking books we've ever seen--and you know what? It's Canadian! Daley is a pastry chef who lives and works in Toronto. She's also a terrific writer, and what she doesn't know about her subject would fit on the back o.... Low-Fat Cooking to Beat the Clock - The trouble with fast food is that it's usually fat food! When you have half an hour to feed a starving family (or a starving you) the last thing you want think about is fat and calories. In this inspiring book packed with delectable colour photos, vet....
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