2003 Best Sellers
 The ACE Bakery Cookbook
Linda Haynes
Warm and lovingly-crafted recipes for and with bread from the Toronto s ACE Bakery,
celebrating its 10th anniversary. Proceeds go towards charitable food-related
projects. Colour photos. Softcover, 223pp. $28.95.
Cheapeats
Toronto 2003-2004
Edited by Alexa Clark
The most recent edition of a (thankfully) annual publication showcases a list
of 365 restaurants where you can dine for under $15 per person. Consistently
a best-seller, and deservedly so. Softcover, 130 pp. $10.95.
Bonnie Stern's
Essentials of Home Cooking
Bonnie Stern
Bonnie Stern returns with a beautiful volume of tasty, uncomplicated recipes
and techniques that both a beginning and more accomplished home chef will use
again and again.
New
Food Lover's Companion
Sharon Tyler Herbst
The new third edition by Sharon Tyler Herbst is here, with some two thousand
new entries. $21.00.
A Shortbread
Sampler
Mary McGrath
What magic is made in the simple combination of flour, sugar and butter! Everyone
loves shortbread and this little book, written by local author McGrath, includes
50 great recipes. It has been published as a fundraiser for The Fresh Air and
Santa Claus Funds at The Toronto Star, with the proceeds allowing children to
attend summer camp and have a holiday full of gifts. A bestseller for the season
(and the 2002 year)! Please try the Whipped Shortbread on page 26. Softcover,
64 pp. $9.95.
Out To Brunch
At Mildred Pierce Restaurant
Donna Dooher & Claire Stubbs
Local favourites for brunch in Toronto. This full colour cookbook
illustrates the sunny simplicity of Dooher & Stubbs' mouthwatering
recipes. Please try the Crunchy Coconut Macadamia Granola With
Honey (p. 38). Available in both softcover
at $28.95 and hardcover for $40.00, 128 pp.
For
the Love of Soup
Jeanelle Mitchell
Whether a traditional favourite like turkey barley or a less familiar soup
such as African peanut chicken soup, the methods in this self-published book
usually feature only two steps.Mitchell offers tips for preparing, serving
and making the recipes more healthy.Most of the recipes make 4-6 servings.
Line and colour illustrations. 210pp. $20.00. Recipe: Roasted
Tomato Garlic Soup / PDF
Aquavit
Marcus Samuelsson
It has been a cuisine to be largely ignored, but now Scandinavian cuisine is
fresh and new. Gorgeous, exciting recipes from the chef crowned the best in New
York City by the James Beard Foundation in 2003. Lavish colour photography inspires
us to be as daring as Samuelsson. Hardcover, 302pp., $69.95.
 Home
for Dinner
Lucy Waverman
Like her enourmously popular Dinner Tonight $24.95,
Lucy Waverman's latest book is awash in both the common and the familiar. Flip
through the book and discover that even the ubiquitous zucchini can be exciting
again. With a nod to the slow food movement, a dash of the Middle East, a pinch
of India, Waverman translates the trends without frightening off the timid cook. 218 pp. $29.95. Recipe: Pork
Tenderloin with Rhubarb Sauce.
Simply Ming
Ming Tsai
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