Picnics
See also: Barbecue.
 Wanapitei Canoe Trippers' Cookbook
Carol Hodgins
Essential for canoers, hikers, and anyone else cooking out under the stars and over an open fire for one night or all season. With plenty of information on menu planning, choosing and packing supplies, and techniques this is a classic for outdoorsmen (and women) throughout Canada. Who says you can't camp out and bake your cake too? Black & white photos. Coil-bound, 85 pp. $10.95.
 Wanapitei Canoe Trippers' Cookbook II
Carol Hodgins
This second volume of camping recipes, from the Wanapitei wilderness organization based in Temagami, Ontario builds on the valuable information and tasty dishes in the first book. Especially appreciated are the sections on nutrition while on the trail and the environmental implications of life outdoors, like how to dispose of waste water. Black and white photographs. Coil-bound, 101 pp. $10.95.
 The Leave-No Crumbs Camping Cookbook
Rick Greenspan & Hal Kahn
When many canoers, hikers, and other outdoors enthusiasts think of camp food trail mix, grains, cans, and a variety of commercially prepared deydrated meal packs often come to mind. Why not make your own? Greenspan and Kahn guide readers through making their own, unbelievably good, meals including all kinds of delicious dishes prepped and dehydrated at home. When was the last time you had risotto under the stars? Black & white photos, line drawings. Softcover, 232 pp. $22.95.
 Best Summer Weekends Cookbook
Jane Rodmell
This classic standby for cottagers and weekend cooks who don't want a long ingredient list but appreciate flavour. Rodmell is the long time food editor of Cottage Life Magazine.
 Good Day for a Picnic
Jeremy Jackson
Ditch the Kool-Aid! Forget the cold cut sandwiches and the vinegary coleslaw!
Take your inspiration from Jeremy Jackson (also author of The Cornbread
Book, $22.95) and pack your basket with homemade lemonade, pork and
leek tart and strawberry cupcakes. Hardcover, 214 pp, $32.50.
 Retro Beach Bash
Linda Everett
Pineapple (canned, of course) helps you channel your inner Hawaiian. Hilo dogs
with its combination of pineapple slices, tomato sauce, soy sauce and hotdogs
is the quintessential 50 s invocation of eternal summer. Fab graphics. Hardcover,
128 pp, $26.95.
 Picnics
David Herbert
Picture-perfect, occasion appropriate menus for outdoor eating from a former
colleague of Donna Hay. Think Pimm’s and raised chicken pie rather
than burnt burgers and tuna on soggy white. Colour photos. Hardcover, 96
pp, $24.95.
The Urban Picnic
John Burns & Elisabeth Caton
Big city sensibilities meet rural leisure in a collection of picnic history,
trivia, themed menus and recipes. The latter includes contributions from authors
as diverse as Nadine Abensur (author of some of the Crank's vegetarian books)
and dessert maven Regan Daley (In the Sweet Kitchen,$60.00). Paper, 351
pp, $24.95.
The Leave-No-Crumbs Camping Cookbook
Rick Greenspan & Hal Kahn
Who would have thought of making sushi or soufflé on a camping
trip? The authors not only tell you how to cook up the best possible
camping cuisine
but
also how to leave the least mark on the environment. Line drawings, sepia
toned photos. Paper, 232 pp, $22.95.
 The Big Book of Backyard Cooking
Betty Rossbottom
The respected cooking school teacher shares 250 ways to enjoy outdoor cooking
-- and eating. Crab and pistachio salad sandwiches, fried Vidalia onion rings
scented with rosemary and a daiquiri cheesecake will all help you forget the
heat this summer. Paper, 351 pp, $27.95.
 Cottage Life's More Summer Weekends
Cookbook
Jane Rodmell
The long-awaited sequel to Summer
Weekends
features easy menus for up to a dozen guests. Dishes include cantaloupe
soup, Greek pizza and make ahead one pot dishes to make summer
entertaining a cinch. Colour photos.
$27.95.
  Cottage Life's
Summer Weekend Cookbook
Jane Rodmell
It's summertime and the livin' is easy. Corn is roasting, salmon is grilling, the
drinks are long and cool. This book from the popular magazine makes it all happen.
Winner of the 1998 Cuisine Canada Award. Colour illustrations. $24.95.
 Delia Smith's Summer Collection
Delia Smith
A celebration of summer with all its glorious ingredients. Delia brings new dimensions
to grilling, roasting and barbecuing. The section on preserving takes the brightness
of summer into the dark days of winter. Colour illustrations. $29.99.
Taste of Summer
Diane Rossen Worthington
This new edition features some brand new recipes along with the old, some untouched,
others revised. The tequila lime grilled shrimps are not to be missed. The bright
graphics and mouth-watering photos make this even better than the first edition.
$36.95.
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