Food & Drink

Rob Rainford’s Born to Grill: Over 100 Recipes from My Backyard to Yours

If Christmas is the season for hockey gift-books for dads, summer is for barbecue books. Each year a new crop of titles on how to char hunks of meat over coals and flames appears in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Beerlicious: The Art of Grillin’ and Chillin’

By Ted Reader

If Christmas is the season for hockey gift-books for dads, summer is for barbecue books. Each year a new crop of titles on how to char hunks of meat over coals and flames appears in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

By Jennifer Cockrall-King

When Edmonton-based food writer Jennifer Cockrall-King began to notice city-dwellers obsessing about growing food themselves instead of simply shopping at farmers’ markets, she wondered whether it was just another passing fad or the beginning of ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Lynn Crawford’s Pitchin’ In: 100 Great Recipes from Simple Ingredients

By Lynn Crawford

With chef Lynn Crawford’s Pitchin’ In, Penguin Canada continues to produce splendid cookbooks by Canadian chefs. The sixth title in a new program that Penguin launched in fall 2010, Pitchin’ In is born of the ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food

By Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik’s latest collection of essays examines the “question of food.” Best known as a writer for The New Yorker and now the author of the 2011 CBC Massey Lectures, Gopnik is a self-professed Francophile. ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts

By David McMillan, Frédéric Morin, and Meredith Erickson

Canada does not have a great track record when it comes to cookbooks inspired by our best restaurants. Indeed, for every Canadian restaurant that has published an accompanying cookbook domestically, one could name five deserving ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Everyday Exotic, the Cookbook: It’s About Flavour

By Roger Mooking

Born in Trinidad, Roger Mooking grew up in Edmonton and now lives in Toronto. The title of his first cookbook, Everyday Exotic, refers to his bifocal perspective on food in Canada. As explained in the ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

By Jennifer McLagan

With Odd Bits, Jennifer McLagan continues the peculiar carnivorous journey she began in her first two cookbooks, Bones and Fat (a Q&Q book of the year for 2009). Those earlier books – especially the second ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Everyday Flexitarian: Recipes for Vegetarians & Meat Lovers Alike

By Nettie Cronish and Pat Crocker

One of the more annoying problems plaguing gastronomy is a fickle public’s appetite for trends. (Remember how low-carb was going to change the world?) The latest dietary fad is the awkwardly named “flexitarianism,” which is ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Taste Buds and Molecules

By François Chartier

The authors of 3 Chefs are all highly regarded toques. Michael Bonacini co-owns a slew of Toronto-area restaurants, including the top-rated Canoe and the family-friendly Oliver & Bonacini chain. Massimo Capra, owner of Mistura and ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

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