Best Sellers July 2005
1. Everyday Italian
Giada de Laurentiis
 2. Rebar Cookbook
Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz
A landmark cafe in Victoria, this book serves up delicious vegetarian food, even
for those who aren't
vegetarian. Softcover, 256 pp, $29.95.
3. Best Summer Weekends
Jane Rodmell
This classic standby for cottagers and weekend cooks who don't want
a long ingredient list but appreciate flavour. Rodmell is the long
time food editor of Cottage Life Magazine.
4. Simply Thai (revised
edition)
Wandee Young & Byron Ayanoglu
Formerly the Young Thailand Cookbook, this collection features favourites from
the well-known Toronto restaurant. Colour photos. $19.95. Recipe: Lemon
Grass Shrimp Soup.
5. Uma Casa Portuguesa
Carla Azevedo
6. Grazing
Julie Van Rosendaal
Hot on the heals of the successful One Smart Cookie ($19.95)
comes this latest healthy book that packs lots of flavour and nutrition without
you realizing you're eating healthy. Softcover, 182 pp, $19.95.
7. Suppertime Survival
Lynn Roblin and Bev Callaghan
Like the previous edition of this book, the authors put the Canada food guide
to work to keep your family at its healthy best. Their organizational skills
will help you take the stress out of weeknight meal preparation. Greater emphasis
this time on fighting childhood obesity while still presenting dishes your kids
might want to eat -- grilled lemon chicken on a bun, bean burritos, pizza , even
brownie bites. Fast info. via charts. Softcover, 237 pp, $29.95.
8. Fresh Every Day
Sara Foster
If anything, Sara Foster's new book is even better than her first, (The
Foster's Market Cookbook $53.00). Like Ina Garten and Martha Stewart
(for whom she was a chef in the catering operation), Foster's brilliance is in
refreshing the familiar while remembering when to leave well-enough alone-witness
her mother's recipes for apple cobbler with buttermilk biscuit topping and pot
roast. Colour photos Hardcover, 287 pp, $50.00.
9. Dish
Marion Kane
Sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes amusing, this collection
presents the best columns from veteran Toronto Star food
writer Marion Kane. Whether reminiscing about the food of her youth
or
her friendship with Julia Child, Kane is always charmingly entertaining.
Recipes, no photos. Hardcover, 304 pp, $24.95.
10. The Instant Cook
Donna Hay
Once again Donna does what she does best: uses the freshest ingredients in the
quickest, least fussy way. Lamb baked on figs and fennel, yellow tomato and parmesan
salad and simple rhubarb tart are a few of the recipes that will have you reaching
for this book again and again. Colour photos. Hardcover, 192 pp, $49.95.
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