Best Sellers for May 2006
1. 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.
 2. Best of Heartsmart
Bonnie Stern
At
last all those best loved recipes from the Heartsmart series are back with 100
fab new recipes bringing a more global and contemporary feel to this well received
edition from Toronto doyen of all things culinary, Bonnie Stern. One of the best
brunch sections with healthier options for all your breakfast favourites. Softcover,
480 pp. $34.95
3. 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.
4. Luscious: Simply delicious food from Marie Claire
Michele Cranston
When Donna Hay departed Marie Claire magazine, Michele Cranston
took the reigns and has acquired her own legion of fans. Very much in a similar
style with the gorgeous photography, easy to follow recipes and accessible ingredient
list. This is her fifth book. Softcover, 225 pp. $29.95.
5. Weekend Cooking
Ricardo
Ricardo is a popular TV cook in Quebec and if the book is any indication we can
see why. A beautifully photographed book of recipes you want to make now! Softcover,
191 pp, $29.95.
6. Giada's Family Dinners
Giada de Laurentiis
What's a best selling author (Everyday Italian, $42.00) and
Food Network star to do for an encore? Write another book of course. If you liked
the first one you'll like this one as well. More straightforward recipes that
will always work. Kudos for making this a book that doesn't feel like a collection
of recipes that didn't make it into the first effort. Hardcover, 256 pp, $43.00.
7.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.
8. My Life in France
Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
It was exquisitely simple sole meuniere that changed both the life of one woman
and the course of North American cuisine. In her newly published memoir, Julia
Child traces her love affair with everything French, particularly the food, from
that day in November, 1948 through the labour of love that became Mastering
the Art of French Cooking to her final visit in June, 1992. Though written
with her great nephew, Alex Prud'homme, it is Julia herself whose words make
this memoir so vivid that one can hear her glorious, rumbling trill in every
paragraph. Hardcover, 317 pp. $35.95.
Read a review of My
Life in France by The Cookbook Store's Jennifer Grange.
9. Real Simiple Meals Made Easy from Real
Simple magazine
10. Grilled to Perfection: Recipes from
Licence to Grill by
Chris Knight & Tyler J. Smith
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