 Canadian General
 Country Cooking
The Readers of Harrowsmith Magazine
It is hard to find the comfort of country cooking at a restaurant. There is something special about home cooking. Join Harrowsmith Magazine and their readers as they share family recipes and the pleasure of cooking. Softcover, 607 pp. $29.95.
 Beyond the Great Wall
Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid
This dynamic travelling duo has managed to capture Chinese cuisine as no one else possibly could. Eschewing the usual view of China the couple have travelled out side the urban centres to local restaurants and market vendors where family style meals are the norm. As much a study of food in culture as a recipe book. This book has won both an IACP and James Beard Foundation book award 2009, International category. Hardcover, 376 pp. $70.00.
 Missing the Bus, Making the Connection
T.A. Keenleyside
Usually when authors show up on our doorstep shortly before Christmas with the hope that we will buy the book they are proudly clutching, we explain that we finished buying for the season long ago. However when we flipped through this book and spotted recipes for pan bagnat and pissaladiere , well, we had to give in to the former diplomat/political science professor. Though not a glamorous production, this little book offers classic recipes garnished with lighthearted but insightful tales of travel a perfect gift. Softcover, 282 pp. $24.95.
 Muffin Mania - just re-released!
Cathy Prange & Joan Pauli
Muffin Mania was one of the first books we carried when we opened the store in 1983 - hand delivered by the authors. It quickly topped our bestseller list where it resided for almost two decades! In the years it was out of print we had streams of calls from people searching for replacements for their tattered and stained originals, or copies for offspring leaving home. We are overjoyed to have the new generation of the Prange/Pauli family bring Muffin Mania to the next generation of bakers! Spiral bound, 71 pp. $16.95.
 Fat
Jennifer McLagan
After the successful first book Bones ($41.50), McLagan tackles a supposedly taboo subject, fat. However as we are finding out fat is good for us, and for those of us who never gave it up now's the chance to get out the butter, make crackling and feel good about it all. Hardcover, 232 pp. $37.95.
 A Taste of Canada
Rose Murray
We admit right up front we are biased when it comes to Rose, she is one of our favourite authors. Her latest book is a wonderful culinary journey across Canada. Her recipes make you want to get right into the kitchen and turn on the oven. A splendid book. Softcover, 258 pp. $34.95.
 The Main{recipes}
Anthony Sedlak
The popular Food Network host showcases an ingredient - lamb chops, trout, ricotta, lentils, oregano - then demonstrates how to build a complete meal around it. Beyond that, the “timing is everything’’ boxes that accompany each recipe ensure that each recipe is ready at the same time and with the least hassle. Colour photos. Softcover, 200 pp, $29.95.
 Friday Night Dinners
Bonnie Stern
In a very personal book, Bonnie Stern celebrates her past and present. She remembers the traditional Friday night dinners of her youth, updating them with the Middle Eastern flavours she has grown to love through travel in Israel. Whether caramelized onion mini quiches, roast chicken on a rack, or Ruthie’s apple cake, these are dishes which appeal to friends and family members of any age. Colour photos.
Hardcover, 309 pp. $50.00.
 In the Kitchen with Anna
Anna Olson
Food Network star and co-owner of a growing food company based in the Niagara peninsula, Anna Olson brings contemporary flare to traditional seasonal cooking. While we usually think “baking” when we hear Anna’s name, in this book she is cooking up everything from porridge to lemon melon seed pasta to skate wing with capers and brown butter. Along with a comprehensive index, there is a list of recipes with page numbers at the beginning of each section. Colour photos.
Softcover, 222 pp. $29.95.
 Complete Best of Bridge Cookbooks
Volume One
This includes all the recipes from the first book (the red one) and the second (the yellow one) in one volume. All of the individual volumes are now out of print, so this is your chance to recapture these treasured recipes. Binder, 384 pp. $29.95.
 Anita Stewart's Canada
Anita Stewart
A founder of Cuisine Canada, prolific author, and regular on CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, Anita Stewart is one of the foremost authorities on Canadian food. In this, her 14th book, Stewart celebrates our indigenous ingredients from source to table. With an eye to both historical and contemporary context, she shows how our great ethnic mosaic has shaped Canadian cuisine as we know it. Vignettes featuring ingredients, the people who grow and use them, and of course, recipes are set among photos, many by Anita Stewart herself, which capture the essence of agrarian Canada. Hardcover, 322 pp. $34.95.
Apples to Oysters
Margaret Webb
A carrot consumed straight out of the ground was the ah-hah moment that initiated a cross Canada tour to find the farmers who are keeping the flavour in our iconic foods. After an introduction to some of the finest seafood, meat, fruits, and vegetables the country has to offer, the journey leads to the farm on which the author grew up. Though not as polemical as some similar books, Webb’s tale is just as impassioned a call to support local farmers. Hardcover, 272 pp. $34.00.
 Dana's Top Ten Table
Dana McCauley
Even when you are a former food editor and now a corporate food consultant, you still have to get dinner on the table every night. Dana McCauley has identified the top 10 family dishes - eg. pizza, chicken, pork chops - and has developed 20 variations for each with readily available ingredients. Using simple techniques she also show how to creat more than one meal from a single cooking session.Colour photos. Softcover, 228 pp. $28.95.
 The Complete Light Kitchen
Rose Reisman
Over the last 15 years, Rose Reisman has built a career as a health and wellness expert while raising over $1 million dollars for the fight against breast cancer. Here she combines new recipes with the best from her 17 previous books her signature stir fries and hearty salads among them. The introduction encompasses many of the topics that ease the transition to and maintenance of a healthier lifestyle. Colour photos. Softcover, 391 pp. $29.95.
 Canadian Living Make It Tonight
Elizabeth Baird & the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
Fast, little cleanup, good for entertaining, well-tested: the crew at Canadian Living understands exactly what the time-crunched home cook wants in a cookbook. There is no need to pick up takeout on the way home when you can have a beef and sweet potato stir-fry ready in under 30 minutes. Fill your slow cooker in the morning to find Spanish pot roast ready and waiting when you open the door. Whether it is off the barbecue, out of the toaster oven or the freezer, this is a book that will help you get tasty food on the table during the week. Colour photos. Paper, 239 pp, $24.95.
 Menus from an Orchard Table
Heidi Noble
As the subtitle suggest, this book celebrates the food and wine from the Okanagan region in British Columbia. Noble operates the Joie Wines and Farm Cooking School and is passionate about the why's of food and eating as much as the cooking itself. Essays are sprinkled throughout, as well as menus from the orchard dinners. Colour photos. Softcover, 320 pages. $34.95.
 Whitewater Cooks
Shelley Adams
Although the recipes come from Nelson, British Columbia’s Fresh Tracks Café at the Whitewater Winter Resort, many of these familiar dishes hail from sunnier climes: Greek lamb burgers, tzatziki sauce, even chicken Marbella made famous by the Silver Palate. With its recipe-per-page format and popular dishes, this is a book to reach for when whipping up a meal for last-minute guests. Colour photos. Softcover, 132 pp. $29.95.
 The Organic Kosher Cookbook
Aviva Allen
A small book but very useful for those who keep kosher but need or want to eat healthier. Also the recipes are dairy-free and overwhelmingly gluten-free and therefore suitable for anyone on a restricted diet, jewish or not. There are traditional dishes, like kugel, latkes, gefilte fish, and challah, but also things to suit modern tastes like mango salsa and butternut squash & coconut soup. Best of all, there are several recipes suitable for passover but don't taste like they are. Softcover, 85 pp. $24.99.
 The Pan Chancho Cookbook
Like its sister restaurant, Chez Piggy, the Pan Chancho Bakery became a Kingston institution as soon as founders Zal Yanovsky and Rose Richardson opened the doors in 2002. Their daughter Zoe shares the story of their vision along with recipes for the breads, desserts, appetizers, and entrees which have made this European-style bakery enduringly popular. Colour photos. Paper, 239 pp, $32.95.
 Food
That Really Schmecks
Edna Staebler
This beloved Canadian classic on Mennonite cooking has been released in a commemorative
edition in honour of Edna's passing, at the age of 101. With an introduction
by Rose Murray this is perfect for those of you looking to replace your stained
and splattered originals. If you aren't in the know these are classic country
recipes from the Mennonite communities of Ontario, interspersed with Edna's anecdotes
about cooking and life. Softcover, 334 pp. $32.95.
 Mama Now Cooks Like This
Susan Mendelson
Mendelson, owner of the Lazy Gourmet caterinng company in Vancouver presents
this compilation of her best recipes from the past 30 years. Fans
will also find many new low-fat and high-fiber recipes. Softcover,
$29.95.
 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.
 More
from Ace Bakery
Linda Haynes
When Ace Bakery's café was too briefly up the street from us we loved
to treat ourselves to baby cakes and angel muffins. Their presence alone makes
Ace Bakery's second book even better than the first. Add bread recipes and imaginative
dishes to serve with bread and to use up bread, stir in beautiful photographs,
and a handful up helpful hints and you've got a book to keep open on the kitchen
counter. Royalties go to support women and children in crisis. Colour photo's.
Softcover, 207 pp. $28.95.
 Lucy's
Kitchen
Lucy Waverman
Lucy’s home cooking is a magical blend of the simple and sophisticated,
informed by her love of international travel and her Scottish
roots. In what is probably her most personal book, Lucy celebrates
the kitchen as the heart of her home. She also embraces another
part of her past - as a cooking teacher - in highlighting the
various techniques and ingredients integral to bringing meals
to the table quickly and tastefully every day. Rob Fiocca’s glorious
photography adds another element of pleasure to a book we will
reach for again and again. Softcover, 288 pp, $35.00.
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