Food & Drink

The Greengrocer’s Kitchen: Vegetables and Herbs

There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Avventura: Journeys in Italian Cooking

By David Rocco

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Toscana Mia

By Umberto Menghi

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The La Fenice Cookbook: Luigi’s Passion

By Luigi Orgera,Sally Doulis, and Colleen Mathieu

Much like David Rocco’s recent excellent cookbook, Avventura, for which Rocco toured Italy gathering recipes from local chefs, the strength of The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera, is its authenticity. Orgera, who died last ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Wilderness Cookbook: A Guide to Good Food on the Trail

By Bonnie McTaggart, Jill Bryant, Chum McLeod, illus.

A camping trip is like a party: the better the planning, the more fun it is. Food is central. When roughing it, especially on canoe trips, mealtime can be the silver lining. All your clothes ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Importance of Lunch and Other Real-life Adventures in Good Eating

By John Allemang

There is an expression: Why eat hamburger when you can have steak? A reading of The Importance of Lunch, a collection of essays on food, with accompanying recipes provokes this very question.Author John Allemang used ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Real Jerk: New Caribbean Cuisine

By Lily and Ed Pottinger

One of the great pleasures of a multicultural society is the abundance of international cuisines immigration brings. In Toronto, for example, one can easily find restaurants serving signature dishes from Ethiopia, Korea, Israel, and Thailand, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

All Stirred up: Over 150 of the Best Recipes from the Women’s Culinary Network

By Laura Buckley and Madeleine Greey, eds.

The Women’s Culinary Network is an international group of women food professionals (most based in Toronto) who have aligned themselves, according to their chairwoman, Nettie Cronish, “to share professional experience, knowledge and information that could ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Homebaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss taught us that food not only keeps people alive, but with all the associated rituals and myths of preparation and consumption, it also keeps peoples alive – that is, food is ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Bonnie Stern’s Essentials of Home Cooking

By Bonnie Stern

Bonnie Stern has finally seen the light: fat is beautiful. The home economist and chef who made her name by preaching the dogma of low-fat in three “heart smart” cookbooks has dredged her newest book, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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