Best Sellers for February 2006
1. Cheapeats Toronto
2006 edition
This latest edition of the best selling guide sends the reader to neighbourhood
hidden gems that are also gratefully, inexpensive. Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- no stone is left unturned in the quest for good cheap eats. You will delight
in finding new places to spend your hard earned dollar; indexes are organized
by neighbourhoods as well as cuisines. Also included celebrity favourites, Olivia
Chow's fav? Bright Pearl Restaurant on Spadina. Rick Mercer? The Detroit Eatery
on the Danforth. Softcover, $11.95.
2. Vegetable Soups
Deborah Madison, Softcover, 230 pp. $29.95
3.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. Softcover, 210pp. $20.00. Recipe: Roasted
Tomato Garlic Soup / PDF.
4.The Healthy Slow Cooker
Judith Finlayson
Cookbook meets nutrition manual in a collection of sophisticated ready-when-you-are
recipes that include bistro fish soup, Moroccan-style chicken with prunes and
quinoa and chestnut soup. There is a nutritional analysis with each recipe; both
Canadian and American diabetic exchanges are in appendices at the back of the
book. Colour photos. Softcover, 288 pp, $27.95.
5.Chapeau! Canada Les Grands Chefs
Editors Anton Fercher and Natalie Dufresne
Very much in the mould of the magnificently illustrated Culinary Chronicle books,
Chapeau! is a book for chefs who wonder what their colleagues in other parts
of the country are up to. Bilingual. Hardcover with slipcase and interactive
CD, 447 pp, $199.95.
6.Heaven on Earth Project
Michael Stadtlander
A celebration of food and its connection to the earth, Michael Stadtlander's
first book chronicles his summer 2005 Heaven on Earth project, following the
chef and his apprentices from planting to consuming the fruits of their labours.
Colour photos. Hardcover, 97 pp, $90.00.
7. Jamie's Italy
Jamie Oliver
One of the great delights of this business has been watching the maturation of
Jamie Oliver. In this culinary tour of Italy he celebrates the food which played
a major part in his early career with Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers at the River
Café, with Gennaro Contaldo, with Antonio Carlucci. There are some less
familiar versions of well-known dishes including some particularly seductive
risottos, one with artichoke, another with cauliflower. Not just content to pass
along recipes, Oliver also creates a sense of the place and of the personalities
which have shaped them and perhaps himself. Wonderful photograph of landscapes,
food, and people. Hardcover, 319 pp, $49.95.
8.Delicious and Dependable Slow Cooker
Judith Finlayson
9. Le Repetoire de la Cuisine $26.50
10.Rose Reisman’s Secrets
for Permanent Weight Loss
Rose Reisman
Along with 150 appealing recipes with not a hint of deprivation, Rose Reisman
serves up an in depth guide to the nine easy-to-follow principles which have
helped her maintain a healthy weight after years of struggle. Colour photos.
Softcover, 309 pp, $29.95.
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