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Best Sellers
June 2007
 1. The Silver Palate Cookbook 25th Anniversary Edition
Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins & Michael McLaughlin
How time flies when one is enjoying oneself in the kitchen.! The quintessential cookbook of the eighties, the book which changed cookbook design forever, is now officially a classic. All the favorite recipes are still here - yes the chicken Marbella in all its glory - the only change is the addition of colour photos and some lovely testimonials. Hardcover, 450 pp. $25.95.
 2. Great Food Fast
From the Kitchens of Martha Stewart Living
One should take a moment to remember that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Martha Stewart’s first book, Entertaining, ($34.95tr). She is still, after all these years and a spot of trouble, at the top of her game. This book, at the other end of the opulence scale from her first book, is the first collection of recipes from the digest-sized Everyday Food. Simple recipes roasted salmon with lemon relish, steak and onion sandwiches, mushroom tartin a clean format, each with a colour photo help make getting dinner on the table a snap. Colour photos.Paper, 384 pp, $30.00.
 3. Chocolate & Zucchini
Clotilde Dusoulier
The genesis of this book is rooted in the reverse of the classic California girl goes to France and falls in love with food story. This time the Parisian girl went to California. Her food affair begat a popular blog and now an absolutely enchanting book. Though diminutive, it is packed with pleasure: for the joy the author finds in her subject; for her tips for the contemporary cook; and finally, for the recipes, some of them seldom seen in other books (pasta cooked like risotto) and others that offer a new interpretation of standards (tomato and sardine club sandwich). Perhaps not so luscious as Nigella Lawson, Clotilde Dusoulier, nonetheless, brings the same sensibility to French food that Nigella has applied so successfully to British and Mediterranean food. Colour photos. Paper, 244 pp, $24.95.
4. Gifts from the Stars Cookbook
Edited by
Daniel Racine
  5. King of the Q's Blue Plate BBQ
Ted Reader
Ted Reader, Canada's King of the Q, has always been a little outrageous, but these recipes go above and beyond everything he has done in the past. If you ever wonder what the fuss is about barbecued food you need to get this and make a few of the recipes. Just a few we feel compelled to mention are Teddy's Grilled Cheese Beef Burger with Ludicrous Beer Butter Basting Sauce, Quail in Jager Bomb Sauce, Limoncello Swordfish with Herbed Butter Baste, and Vanilla Coke Rocky Road Cake. Colour photos. Softcover, 271 pp. $34.95.
 6. The New York Times Country Weekend Cookbook
Edited by Linda Amster
Featuring favourite recipes from the paper’s food columnists, New York Times compilations are always reliable and often feature the latest trends in doable-at-home versions. What they usually are not is attractive. This one breaks that tradition with the addition of colour photos. Along with current Times writers like Mark Bittman, there are vintage gems from Craig Claiborne, Pierre Franey and Bryan Miller. There is even an essay from the man whose name became synonymous with country weekends: Lee Bailey. Elegant simplicity is the best way to sum up the recipes contributed by a broad range of writers: Mollie Katzen, Diana Kennedy, Nigella Lawson Alfred Portale…. Hardcover, 271pp, $40.00.
 7. Rhubarb:
More than Just Pies
Sandi Vitt and Michael Hickman
Except for asparagus, nothing else says "Spring!" so much as rhubarb.
This little book has just about every way to use rhubarb: beverages, condiments,
preserves and desserts, desserts, desserts. Softcover, 144 pp, $14.95.
 8. Fare for Friends
Revised and updated for its fifteenth anniversary, Fare for Friends continues
to provide delicious and easy to prepare recipes. Proceeds from sales go
to Interim Place, a refuge for abused women and their children. $19.95.
 9. The Recipe of Love: An Ethiopian Cookbook
Aster Ketsela Belayneh
A dab of history and a pinch of philosophy accompany the recipes from the owner of Toronto's Addis Ababa Restaurant. Built on grains, pulses, and vegetables embellished with spices, Ethiopian dishes offer an exotic addition to a healthy diet. Colour photos. Softcover, 186 pp. $29.95.
 10. Vegetable Harvest
Patricia Wells
Inspired by her provencal potager, Patricia Wells has written a worthy successor to Georgeanne Brennan’s much-missed Potager (out of print). Although many of the recipes - everything from appetizers to stews with fish and meat, grain and bean dishes,even desserts, sound rich, most are healthy and have the nutritional breakdown to prove it. Illustrated with colour photos, this book has only one weakness - the print is small. Hardcover, 324 pp. $43.95.
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