Reviews

Rob Feenie Cooks at Lumière

What’s the value of tone in a cookbook? By tone, I mean the figurative song delivered through design that indicates to a prospective audience that, yes, this book and its recipes are for them. Close ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Downhill Chance

By Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey’s first novel, Kit’s Law, was enthusiastically acclaimed by readers and garnered a handsome clutch of awards and nominations, making it a daunting act to follow. Downhill Chance is a near match.Its spell takes ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Racing the White Silence: On the Trail of the Yukon Quest

By Adam Killick

One of the many things a top-rank musher has to do during the gruelling two weeks of the Yukon Quest sled race is change between 2,000 and 3,000 booties. Booties are the small velcroed socks ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Simply Bishop’s: Easy Seasonal Recipes

By John Bishop & Dennis Green

The world, it seems, is chockablock with people terrified to cook. One wonders how they subsist, unable to boil a yam or sear a steak properly, but then a glance in the grocer’s freezer informs ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Home for Dinner: Fresh Tastes, Quick Techniques, Easy Cooking

By Lucy Waverman

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Islam: A Short History

By Karen Armstrong

The subject of Islam and Muslims has been of continuing interest to the West for a long time. Some historians observe that such an interest dates back to the founding of the religion. Indeed, Maxime ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Major Themes of the Quran

By Faziur Rahman

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl Brown

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Trouble Sleeping

By Phil Hall

Phil Hall describes his latest work as a haiban, “a Japanese form of interwoven journey-prose and poetry,” which he uses to explore his troubled childhood in Rokeby, situated in northeastern Ontario. Trouble Sleeping evokes the ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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