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February 2006
New Arrivals
Art Culinaire #79
A quarterly publication full of colour features chefs, biographies,
and their dishes. This winter's issue has topics Beyond Foie Gras,
Bananas, Maui, Chestnuts. $39.95.
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs.
Beeton
Kathryn Hughes
At the age of 21 Isabella Beeton wrote what is arguably the original
guide to domesticity, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management,
what is most amazing it was written in 1861 and is still in print
($25.95). Hughes, an award winning biographer of George Eliot,
has meticulously
researched (there are 79 pages of notes, sources and bibliography!)
Beeton's
short but tumultuous life, she died at the age of 28. Compelling
reading not just about food but social history. $48.95.
Chocolate: A Connoiseur
Chole Doutre-Roussel
One of the world's great chocolate experts tells all: how to differentiate
the "good" from the "bad"; how to taste, which new
brands to try, how to define your personal chocolate style. Includes
a few choice recipes but this is not a chocolate recipe book. $26.50.
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. $11.95.
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'zine Scene
Here's a roundup of what magazine
editors in North America, Britain and Australia think you need to
know in February and March.
- Cover colours of the month. Lots of blue
to remind us spring is coming; red to warm us up and to remind
us spring isn‚t quite here
yet!
- In more than one magazine: one-pot meals, detox, boutique hotels.
- Word
of the month: Healthy
- Gadget of the month: Collapsible funnel. See Fine Cooking, Food & Wine.
- Real Simple:
One-pot meals. What's useful in alternative medicine.
The best in shampoos.
- Wish: Slimming soups. 398 Home & Fashion finds.
20 Great Getaways & Chic
Hotel Deals.
- Fresh: Detox made easy. 119 Irresistible recipes.
What's in your food.
You are what you eat Detox. Dr. Gillian's motorway nightmare.
Nutritious and warming one pots.
- Chocolatier: Recipes from NY's best bakeries.
Desserts with a taste of honey. The ultimate chocolate Valentine's
party. Delicious Recipes from Bill Granger, Jamie Oliver, Rick
Stein and Jill Dupleix. Dining out in Napa Valley and France.
Stress-free entertaining.
- Food & Wine: Prefab food revolution. Great food
meets modern style. The ultimate kitchen boutique. Coffee fanatic's
guide.
- Fine Cooking:
The best braises. Comfort foods. Can openers.
- Gourmet:
Special issue on Montreal. "North America's most European
city"
- Canadian House & Home: The organizing issue.
Cooking with goat cheese.
- Cook's
Illustrated: Pepper-crusted filet mignon. Quick marinara.
Glazed pork chops. Supermarket beef broths. Best old-fashioned
chocolate cake. Rating saucepans. Essential bakeware 101.
- BBC GoodFood:
The healthy issue. 103 feel good recipes. Healthy dishes your
kids will love (sure). How to cook with seeds & grains.
Food News There's a new play revolving around food.
The Arab-Israeli Cookbook play delves
into the kitchens and recipes, the restaurants and the lives of
Jews and Arabs in Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza. Based on interviews with more then 80 people
ranging from the
widest range of backgrounds - bus drivers, café owners, homemakers,
academics, professionals, retirees - this powerful documentary
drama offers uncommon insight into the daily lives of individuals
living in
circumstances most of us will never know. The result is an evening
of theatre unlike any other, and an extraordinary portrait of shared
humanity.
As the characters describe their lives, they also reveal recipes
and cook delicious meals on stage, filling the theatre with enticing
aromas.
The Arab-Israeli Cookbook plays at the Berkeley Street
Theatre Upstairs, 26 Berkeley Street, Toronto. It is written by
Robin Soans,
directed by Joel Greenberg, and stars Victor Ertmanis, David Fox,
Barbara Gordon, Mark McGrinder, Jeff Miller, Kimwun Perehinec and
Maria Ricossa. Performances run from March 3 to April 1, 2006.
The
accompanying cookbook is available at The Cookbook Store ($19.95
- 10%off with performance ticket stub).
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Food Finds
We tried the lemon tart from Dessert Trends at the corner
of Harbord and Brunswick and boy, oh, boy were we bowled over.
Owner Donald
Duong has been wholesale supplying desserts around the city for
years. Now
comes this lovely little cafe, that serves more than just desserts.
Meyer
lemons are in the shops - check out Whole Foods.
As we all know
President's Choice has some misses as well as hits. That aside
we have found the PC All Butter Puff Pastry to be a
great, versatile item to have on hand for tarts, sweet or savoury.
A hit for
PC!
Thermomix Demo
Wednesday March 1st at 12 noon at The Cookbook Store
For those of you who
have read about the amazing new European Thermomix, which is supposed
to make all other appliances obselete, here's
your chance to see it in action. All who have used it rave about
it including chefs Michael Stadtlander, Brad Long, Michael Bonacini,.
Although
it
is not intended for the professional kitchen it is the chefs who
have recognized its versatility. German made, Austrian designed
this unique
counter top appliance could be the next must have thing for your
kitchen so come and see before anyone else.
Dearly Departed
Vincent Schiavelli
Whenever the genial character actor Vincent Schiavelli
was in town he visited us at The Cookbook Store, often with a string
of crew
members tagging along.
While universally recognized for his roles
in such movies as Ghost, Amadeus, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest, fewer people realized that Vincent Schiavelli was also an
award-winning food writer who delighted
in exploring his Sicilian-American food roots. Along with magazine
articles, Schiavelli was the author of the books Papa Andrea's
Table, Bruculinu, America,
and Many
Beautiful Things.
A victim of both a connective-tissue disease
and lung cancer, Vincent Schiavelli died in Sicily, December 26,
2005, at the age of 57.
Edna Lewis
Edna Lewis, the granddaughter of a slave,
was dedicated to recapturing the flavours of a Virginia childhood
which ultimately lead to the
book Taste of Country Cooking (1979) which Craig Claiborne
said "may
well be the most entertaining regional cookbook in America."
Her
most recent highly acclaimed book, The Gift of Southern Cooking ($44.95)
was published in 2003 with chef Scott Peacock. Peacock was chef
at the governor's
mansion in Georgia when he met Miss Lewis, what transpired was
an unusual friendship between a young gay, white chef and a widowed
black doyenne.
(Affectionately called the Odd Couple of Southern Cooking). The
resulting cookbook is a treasure and testament to their friendship.
Born
in 1916 in Freetown, Virginia, she died in her sleep at her
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