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A second helping of recipes celebrating the B.C. food scene, served up by 70 well-known and emerging chefs. Five years after Vancouver Cooks, which sold more than 13,000 copies, the Chefs' Table Society returns with over 100 new recipes from 70 chefs around Vancouver, Victoria and the Okanagan, including: Tojo Hidekazu of Tojo's Restaurant Vikram Vij of Vij's Melissa Craig of Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler Rob Feenie Divided into four sections -- local food, international flavours, emerging talents and pioneering chefs -- Vancouver Cooks 2 celebrates the key elements that have forged Vancouver's unique culinary culture and made the city a world-class dining destination. We also see the industry behind the scenes, understanding its heritage and the innovative strides Vancouver chefs are taking. Written for the home cook, Vancouver Cooks 2 pairs more than 50 full-colour photographs with the mouthwatering recipes, each with wine notes. Royalties from the sale of this book go to the Chefs' Table Scholarship and Bursary Fund.
A celebration of British Columbia through a cook's palate and a photographer's lens, this cookbook highlights the province's diverse edible landscape, from the Pacific Ocean's seafood to Okanagan fruit. The seasonal layout pairs an eclectic collection of made-from-scratch recipes with evocative images, paying tribute to wholesome unprocessed foods and the skilled farmers who grow them. Seafood lovers will find plenty of ideas for enjoying the Pacific's bounty with recipes for halibut, salmon, oysters, mussels, clams and spot prawns. B.C.'s prized fruits are featured in summer pies, tarts, meringues and ice cream while fall and winter recipes showcase local pears, apples and cranberries. The Fraser Valley's meats appear throughout the book, as do the region's vegetables that make up vegetarian dishes like the award-winning Ratatouille Pie. There's even a section for getting back to basics with everything from stocks, to pasta, to honest-to-goodness real mayonnaise. British Columbia from Scratch features the province's most commonplace market ingredients, making this book as practical as it is beautiful.
Offers information on more than three hundred career training programs and apprenticeships, and includes advice on how to select the right program, find scholarships, and plan a successful career.
Punctuated by beautiful local food photographs, interviews with and recipes from some of our top local chefs, each of these short pieces will shock, comfort, praise, entice, or invite reconciliation, all while illuminating our living history through the lens of food. A portion of sales from every book will go towards providing a refugee or low-income family with fresh, locally grown produce, and at the same time will support BC farmers, fishers, beekeepers, and gardeners. Residence: Vancouver, B.C. 256 pages.
Flavourful and easy-to-prepare recipes with Bishop's trademark focus on fresh seasonal ingredients-over 10,000 copies sold. John Bishop of the renowned Bishop's Restaurant in Vancouver has, over the years, created more than a hundred wonderful dishes that feature seasonal ingredients with the trademark Bishop's emphasis on flavour and texture and that are also simple to prepare. Simply Bishop's features tempting recipes organized into appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, side dishes and desserts. Accompanying the recipes are useful and friendly tips about selecting produce and preparation techniques. John Bishop also supplies wine suggestions for entrees and a section on basic stocks. He also offers menu suggestions for special events, as well as tips on preparing for and giving dinner parties, setting up an attractive buffet and keeping a dinner party diary.
Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publ...
Widely regarded as one of North America's finest restaurants, West has garnered much critical acclaim, including recognition as among "ten of the best, worldwide" by U.K.'s "Sunday Independent." Organized by season and drawing on West's delicious recipes, this cookbook includes such tempting dishes as Dungeness Crab Tortellini with Lemongrass and Lime Broth in spring. The wine is important too -- West's wine director Owen Knowlton has suggested pairings, including the best international wines. Those who can't make it to Vancouver can still enjoy West's sumptuous menu -- it's all right here.