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Rebar: Modern Food Cookbook

Since 1988, Rebar Modern Food has been Victoria's favorite restaurant and juice bar, featuring fresh, healthy, predominantly vegetarian fare. The upbeat atmosphere and vibrant, tasty food have led critics to describe Rebar as "inventive," "hip," and "visionary." The Rebar Modern Food Cookbook can be used by everyone-strict vegans, vegetarians (full and part-time!), and anyone looking for delicious ideas with a funky twist. Recipes range from salads to pastas, entrées, lunch and brunch ideas, soups, sandwiches, side dishes, sweets, and juices. The book also offers handy tips, menu ideas, seasonal substitutions, and suggestions for transforming dishes into low-fat or vegan alternatives. Everyone who loves to cook and eat delicious, healthy, fun food will welcome this much-anticipated book!

Chef at Home

TV's Chef Michael Smith shows how cooking without recipes makes for stress-free kitchen adventures.

Chef at Home Chef Michael Smith welcomes readers into his home kitchen where he encourages home chefs to cook with -- and without -- a recipe. Packed with simple and delicious meals, this cookbook offers kitchen insight and a culinary adventure on every page.

Chef Michael Smith has cooked professionally for more than 20 years. In Chef at Home, the companion cookbook to his hit Food Network series, Smith emphasizes simple, stress-free cooking. In his house, every meal is an opportunity to have fun and experiment with flavors.

Aspiring home cooks will learn from Smith's professional cooking secrets. Experienced home cooks will appreciate his open, creative approach. Everyone will love the book's simple, healthy flavors and the tips on personalizing each dish. Recipes include:

• Country Inn Pancakes
• Maritime Clam Chowder
• Rosemary Vanilla Chicken
• Mac and Cheese with Lobster.

This book is meant to be ripped, oil-stained, accidentally burnt, and deliberately written on. It works best in the kitchen -- not on the coffee table.

A Taste of Quebec

First published in 1990, A Taste of Quebec is the definitive guide to traditional and modern cooking in this distinctive region of Canada. Featuring specialties from each section of the province, where else could you find seven recipes for tourtiere, each with a different local variation? Or the secrets behind the traditional cod-based bouillabaisse of the Gaspe? Or the haute-cuisine twist of adding local sirop d'erable to a terrine in Trois Rivieres?

Now revised and updated, A Taste of Quebec, 2nd Edition, again brings you a balance of Quebec's culinary past and present. Featuring over 125 new recipes and traditional favourites, A Taste of Quebec, 2nd Edition, also: Highlights new up-and-coming chefsIntroduces local growers and producersGives inside information on the province's best restaurants and aubergesFeatures notes of architectural and historical interestAnd, provides typical regional menus for a genuine Quebecois feast

With photos illustrating the people, the food, and the land sprinkled throughout, more than ever Taste of Quebec is the all-in-one food lover's journey through la belle province.

Written by Quebec's respected culinary authority, Julian Armstrong, A Taste of Quebec, 2nd Edition, details the history, folklore details, and gastronomic stamp of each area of the province as explored during the author's 40 years in her adopted home. As she says, "[Quebec] is a beautiful land with a history both distinctive and fascinating; its people are generous in sharing tales of their family cooking. I hope readers who know Quebec will find old friends among the recipes, and those who visit the province will enjoy seeking out those dishes from its past and present as much as I have." In its breadth, depth, and love of the land, Taste of Quebec has no equal.

Susur: A Culinary Life, Books 1-2

Over the past decade, Toronto-based chef Susur Lee has built an international reputation with his groundbreaking cuisine, winning raves such as "culinary genius" from critics and chefs alike. Borrowing heavily from French and Chinese traditions, Susur defies the ubiquitous "fusion" label with his wholly original and decidedly bold style of cooking, dubbed nouvelle Chinois. SUSUR: A CULINARY LIFE offers readers an intimate look at the evolution of this master chef. Toronto food writer Jacob Richler takes us on an enthralling culinary odyssey that begins with Susur's apprenticeship at Hong Kong's legendary Peninsula Hotel and follows the chef 's major Successes at his award-winning restaurants Lotus and Susur. This in-depth study also chronicles Susur's ambitious plan to modernize the ancient repertoire of classical Chinese cooking —a 5,000-year journey that ends in the creation of his vibrant new cuisine. A remarkable subject deserves a remarkable book, and SUSUR is as innovative as the chef it celebrates. Two colorful, gorgeously illustrated volumes — one describing Susur 's development as a chef, the other featuring his most sought-after recipes —are bound together in an intricate and innovative presentation that resembles a Chinese puzzle box. A sensuous treat for foodies and chefs alike, SUSUR is the definitive word on this cutting-edge chef.

Whitewater Cooks: Pure, Simple and Real Creations from the Fresh Tracks Cafe

Great recipes from a celebrated resort.

Whitewater Resort in the Canadian Rockies is renowned for its spectacular scenery, deep snow and Fresh Tracks Café. Despite constant pleading from customers, recipes for dishes made famous there were as unattainable as snowflakes in July. Even the café staff was sworn to secrecy. Now, Whitewater Cooks opens the kitchen doors.

With this eagerly anticipated book, home cooks can re-create chef Shelley Adams' signature dishes. Readers will enjoy over 70 recipes from the café's selection of top sellers -- from warming soups to desserts -- indulging in such culinary favorites as:

• Whiskey-smoked salmon chowder
• Ymir curry bowl
• Whitewater veggie burger
• Runaway train wrap
• Peppercorn, brandy and gorgonzola sauce
• Crackle top snowy mountain cookies
• Whitewater brownies.

Whitewater Resort is internationally recognized for its alpine scenery and the fine quality of its food. Now home cooks everywhere can share its most celebrated dishes.

The All New Purity Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series)

The Purity Cookbook has long been part of family traditions in many homes, and rare first editions are collector's items. Carefully reproduced from the original 1967 edition, this cookbook contains the recipes for an incredible variety of dishes, as well as tiny gems of kitchen wisdom that have been passed on from generation to generation. Handy charts detail the times for cooking vegetables, roasting turkeys, and cooking meat. With the Purity Cookbook, you can create an era of good, wholesome food just like your grandmother used to make.

Maritime Flavours: Guidebook and Cookbook, Sixth Edition (Flavours Guidebook and Cookbook)

The all-in-one recipe book, guide book and souvenir to great Maritime food

Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee combed Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, searching out the best restaurants and inns, the finest chefs and the most irresistible recipes. The result is the ultimate cookbook and guidebook.
Their selection of recipes includes fresh seafood as well as lamb and chicken. Desserts with blueberries, apples, rhubarb, maple syrup and rum all reflect the region's culinary traditions. Adapted and tested for home cooking the recipes are accompanied by stunning colour photographs.
The authors' guide to selected inns and restaurants offers a range of culinary experiences, both fine dining and casual family occasions. They provide useful information about restaurant hours and house specialties. The book includes a map of the region with a location for each establishment.
Completely revised and updated, Maritime Flavours is both a splendid cookbook and an unequalled guide to the culinary treasures of the Maritime provinces.

Summer Delights: Growing and Cooking Fresh Herbs

It's hard to name a dish whose flavor cannot be subtly enhanced by adding fresh herbs. Much more nutritionally complete than dried herbs, fresh herbs make your food look and taste better.

The nineteen herbs featured here offer a wide range of tasty and tangy recipes that show off their unique characteristics. Plus, there are expert tips on growing and harvesting the herbs. If you have a backyard garden or just a window box, you'll be able to grow them all easily because every one is hearty and can adapt to a wide range of conditions.

But if you just enjoy the fresh garden taste of herbs in your dishes, you'll relish the scores of favorite recipes that showcase each herb's unique flavor.

Kathy Casey's Northwest Table: Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Southern Alaska

Kathy Casey, beloved expert on Northwest cuisine, shares more than 100 it-doesn't-get-more-delicious-than-this recipes for everything from cocktails all the way to desserts. Lambert cherry mojitos waft the fragrance of fresh mint. A Tillamook cheddar spread made with Oregon's famous cheese is spiked with locally brewed ale. Dungeness crab cakes are topped with a vibrant slaw. Wild Alaskan salmon is crowned with herb-tossed rings of Walla Walla sweet onions. And desserts like Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Cascade Berries make the end of the meal as special as the beginning. These recipes coupled here with fascinating stories of Kathy's Northwest culinary adventures are inspired by the diverse cultural heritage of the region: modern favorites, cherished recipes passed from generation to generation, Pacific Rim and Native American influences, as well as its natural bounty blend the traditional and the contemporary in a delightfully modern cuisine. Add to that gorgeous photographs showing off the culinary landscape, Kathy Casey's Northwest Table is not only distinctive, it's downright delicious.

The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook

Inspired by the most famous of all Canadian children's books, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables,this cookbook combines easy step-by-step recipes with charming watercolours of Anne and her friends and quotations from three of the ever-popular Anne books. Never before have good things to eat and drink been so successfully derived from cooking episodes in children's literature. From 'Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches' to 'Anne's Liniment Cake' and 'Diana Barry's Favourite Raspberry Cordial,' these delicious treats will be fun to make--and they'll be sure to turn out well because they were kitchen-tested by a twelve-year old who had perfect results!