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A Kitchen in Corfu
Since Odysseus died on mezethes and spit-roasted meat on Corfu in the Homeric epic, the island has been conquered by Rome and Byzantium; taken by Norman adventurers, Genoese pirates and the Angevin kings of Naples; and held for four hundred years by the Venetians. Through the vicissitudes of war and peace the classical Greek cooking has become distinctly Corfiot.
The Greek for Love
“Sometimes on nights like these, when I’ve been working late and the house is quiet, my mind skims away through the years to the time when we lived on Corfu. Our time there floats in the darkness of the past like a tiny island of green and yellow light. . .” They arrived as tourists, Wendy from Canada and James from England, young, new to each other and probably even more in love than they realized. The two-line ad in the Sunday Times, advertising “Villa Parginos, Loutses, Corfu,” conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossible Greek blue sea. Instead they got a little pink bungalow with linoleum, a buzzi...
Big Jim
James Stirling is one of the few postwar architects to whom the word genius can be applied. Formidable, ebulient, self-centred, at times outrageous, he pursued architecute and the creation of buildings with a single-minded intensity, evoking hero-worship and sometimes hatred in the process. Mark Girouard traces Stirling's life from his tough boyhood in Liverpool to the revolutionary buildings of the 1960s - the Engineering Buiding for Leicester University, the History Faculty Building at Cambridge and the Florey Building at Oxford - and the acclaimed Stuttgart Art Gallery in 1980. Celebrated abroad, in Britain Stirling's association with Palumbo's plan for a new building in the centre of the City of London divided the architectual world into furious camps, creating fiery debates which lasted until his early death in 1992. The arguments, and the passions, still reverberate today. Mark Girouard's perceptive, entertainign account combines an intimate picture of the man - his personality, his relationships, his life-styl his mania for collecting, his constant doodling with an informed
The Greek for Love
They arrived as tourists in Corfu, Wendy from Canada and James from England. They enjoyed the sun, an idyllic beach, olives, fresh apricots and marinated lamb, and long evenings of storytelling at the local taverna. But what captivated James and Wendy was the way the islanders embraced them, and how their deep connection to Corfu and its people sustained them through tragedy just as it had carried them into love. Some strong language.
The Chef's Table
For the last decade, Toronto Taste has invited chefs from the city's finest restaurants to prepare and serve up their signature dishes to discerning palates under starched white tents. In the year 2000, Toronto Taste will host the biggest gourmet graze to date. And all the proceeds from the event will go to support, as they have for the last ten years, the incredible efforts of Second Harvest, an organization with a simple mandate: to rescue perishable food and deliver it to agencies that provide meals to people in need. To celebrate this gastronomic event, Lucy Waverman, James Chatto and Tony Aspler have combined their formidable talents to produce "The Chef's Table," a one-of-a-kind collec...
Mist
Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party, and thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses who's behind the kidnap - the boy she hoped was her friend, the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River. Evan is no ordinary boy - he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmother's stories. Evan lives on the fringes of Nell's world, rarely glimpsed, misunderstood and feared, but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming ...
Ordinary People
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature A Washington Post "Lily Lit" Book Club Selection
Mordecai Richler Was Here
Part memoir, part city guide, this gossipy history follows a well known food critic through restaurants’ births, growths, and occasional failures. Updated to include today’s rising culinary stars, the narrative traces how the restaurant business became show business and how the tycoons, artists, dilettantes, journeymen cooks, gastronomical junkies, and ambitious entrepreneurs transformed Toronto into a food-lovers haven. Fortunes are made and lost, reputations built and squandered—and this story tells it all from the head table’s perspective.
A Matter Of Taste
Two of Canada's top wine and food experts combine their talents in this elegant, lively, award-winning cookbook. With more than 200 delectable recipes and full-colour photography by Rob Fiocca, A Matter of Taste is a unique and exciting collaboration that serves as a primer in the art of matching food and drink.
The Man who Ate Toronto
As a young man in England, James Chatto had worked as a waiter, dishwasher, and occasional cook. As a boy, he had learned about restaurants from his godfather, the actor Robert Morley, who was also a food critic for Punch and Playboy. When he came to Canada in the early 1980s he decided to parlay his appetite and experience into a career and began writing about restaurants for Toronto Life Magazine. Since then he has spent most of his nights, and not a few of his days, in Toronto's culinary demi-monde, chronicling an extraordinary transformation. Over a period of twenty years, Torontonians, newly affluent and increasingly well traveled, discovered the world of food and wine. Eating out becam...
