Interviews with...
Elizabeth Baird
 Canadian Living Cooks
Daphna Rabinovitch, Emily Richards, Elizabeth Baird and The Canadian
Living Test Kitchen
No fuss recipes reflecting Canada s multicultural flavours. Also, a peek behind-the-scenes
of the enormously popular Food network show of the same name.
CB: The
first album/CD/eight track you bought?
EB: Ammad Jamal.
CB: What was your first car?
EB: A Honda Civic.
CB: Your favourite junk food?
EB: I love salt & vinegar potato chips.
CB: What kitchen
gadget or piece of equipment can't you live without?
EB: Pastry cloth, actually.
CB: Your favourite ingredient,
or food?
EB: Cheese!
CB: Most over-rated ingredient, or food?
EB: Shallots.
CB: What was the first cookbook you used?
EB: A children’s cookbook from Hamilton sold by my Grade 7 Home
Ec teacher.
CB: Your favourite authors, doesn't have to be cookbook
authors?
EB: Elizabeth David and James Chatto.
CB: Your favourite city?
EB: London.
CB: What is your greatest extravagance/indulgence?
EB: Cheese!
CB: Your favourite movie?
EB: Jules et Jim.
CB: What was your first job?
EB: Stacking books at the Jack Hood warehouse in Stratford.
CB: What kind of music do you like?
EB: Classical music, the Beatles, and Abba.
CB: Your favourite sports team?
EB: The Canadian Women's Hockey Team.
CB: Your pet peeve when dining out?
EB: I can't stand dirty menus.
CB: Your favourite drink?
EB: Campari.
CB: If you could change one thing in the food & wine
industry what would it be?
EB: Bringing meat back to the way it used to
be in terms of the lean to fat ratio.
CB: Who
has been the biggest influence on your career?
EB: James Lorimer.
CB: What four people, alive or dead, would you invite to
dinner? (assuming you would invite your significant other to have six around
the dinner table!)
EB: Pierre Trudeau, Alvar Aalto, John Sewell, Rose Murray,
Donna Bartolina, John Bishop, and Jamie Kennedy.
 The
Complete Canadian Living Cookbook
Elizabeth Baird
From the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
This tome has everthing you need and didn't know you needed! Information on equipment,
choosing and storing ingredients, glossary of culinary terms, nutritional analysis
for each recipe, advice on using bread machines, food processors, slow cookiers
and let's not forget the 350 recipes! $49.95. Recipe: Chunky
Mushroom Soup.
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