Food & Drink

A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail

Research is paramount to the development and operation of an off-grid, organic small farm. So says Jenna Butler who, along with her partner, Thomas, in 2006 established Larch Grove Farm near Barrhead in northern Alberta. ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Science, Technology & Environment

Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities

By Mark Morton

One doesn’t learn from Mark Morton’s Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities, how a salamander – an appliance for broiling found in restaurant kitchens – got its odd name. One does, however, learn almost ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Toronto Star Cookbook: More than 150 Diverse and Delicious Recipes Celebrating Ontario

By Jennifer Bain; Ryan Szulc, photog.

One of the overarching sentiments governing cooking these days is the idea that less is more, simple is better. Fancy food has become déclassé. There are challenges when packaging such recipes for today’s cookbook-buying public. ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Rob Feenie’s Casual Classics: Everyday Recipes for Family and Friends

By Rob Feenie

Rob Feenie is the most recent celebrity chef aiming to cash in on the home-cooking craze that began in 2008, when the world economy cratered and cookbook marketers saw dollar signs as people tightened their ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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

By Rob Rainford

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 »