Reviews

★ Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm

Two recent trends in cooking receive the seasonal treatment in splendid new cookbooks this fall. Since the publication of the 100 Mile Diet in 2007, “locavore” cooking – using only ingredients from local producers – ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen

By David Sax

Save the Deli, by Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based journalist David Sax, should come with a warning: may induce cravings for smoked-meat sandwiches, sour pickles, and chewy rye. Sax’s passion for Jewish food emanates from the pages of ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

By Ian Brown

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

By Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a poet, anthologist, and creative writing teacher. But readers coming to her memoir seeking an account of the writing life will be disappointed. Rather, this is a book about her relationship with ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular Music

By Ryan Edwardson

Canadians are accustomed to dealing with the question of national identity. It is commonly held that ours is a country of regions held together with a tiny dollop of national glue. In Canuck Rock, historian ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti

By Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain

Contemporary knit culture embraces dichotomy – blending tradition with subversion, feminism with domesticity, art with craft – so knitters might see no contradiction in a how-to guide for knit graffiti. In Yarn Bombing, authors Mandy ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction

By Glen Chilton

Make no mistake: this book’s author is also its subject. Dr. Glen Chilton, an emeritus professor at Calgary’s St. Mary’s College who now lives in Australia, admits early on that he’s always been a truly ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors

By Hal Niedzviecki

Toronto writer Hal Niedzviecki has a hard time coming up with good, solid conclusions in his new book, The Peep Diaries. He admits as much in the last chapter. He thought that by the end ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

What’s to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History

By Nathalie Cooke, ed.

I’ve always wondered why Canadian Thanksgiving takes place in October. Did it have to do with typical anti-Americanism or was there a more profound reason? What’s to Eat? has the answer. At one time, Canadian ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Galore

By Michael Crummey

For its sheer extremes, both real and conjured, Newfoundland occupies a singular place in Canada’s history and literary imagination. While the typical Newfoundland narrative emphasizes the rugged terrain and pragmatic lifestyle of the land’s inhabitants ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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