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MORE FOOD THAT REALLY SCHMECKS

Edna Staebler

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

More Food that Really Schmecks (and Food that Really Shmecks 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 10 people found this review helpful.

The recipes in More Food that Really Schmecks are interesting, easy, use ingredients that many of us have on hand and above all, yield food that everyone loves. This is one of my "desert island" cookbooks. Among the 400+ in my collection, this is one of the top five! (Likewise Food that Schmecks, the first in the series.) I also love the little stories about Edna's mother and friends. There is a strong influence from old order Mennonites (similar to the Amish in the US.)

More Mennonite cooking that really schmecks! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

It's great to see that this book has been reissued, as the original has been out of print and copies difficult to find. Like Food that Really Schmecks, More Food that Really Schmecks is a great cookbook filled with many Mennonite inspired recipies that Edna Staebler has gathered from her friends and family, and is complimented by numerous anecdotes about the Waterloo region (and more) of which she is a native. I am not a big cook, but I really enjoy this book, and am greatful that Edna Staebler has done so much to preserve some of Canada's German cooking heritage.

Inn on the Twenty

Anna Olson, Michael Olson

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Editorial Review:

Bordered by farms and vineyards, Inn on the Twenty, has the best of Niagara at its doorstep. Anna and Michael Olson's recipes reflect the delights of running a restaurant in one of the world's most idyllic settings. Photographer Michael Mahovlich captures surrounding orchards, vineyards, and the inn itself, on the Twenty Mile Creek, in stunning images. Together, they form a book that brings the sensual feast of Niagara to your table.

The Inn on the Twenty Cookbook contains the building blocks of cooking well, featuring chapters on basics, food and wine pairing, and kitchen tools. It also includes sublime twists on standard dishes, such as Sea Scallops on Apricot Butter Sauce, Lime-Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and Inn on the Twenty's Signature Double Espresso Chocolate Torte. The book's conversational tone will make you feel as though you are cooking alongside the Olsons in their famous winery restaurant in Jordan.

Awards

• Cuisine Canada:
  2001 - Inn on the Twenty (Silver Medal)

Design in Canada: Fifty Years From Teakettles to Task Chairs

Rachel Gotlieb, Cora Golden

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A richly illustrated and fascinating portrait from two aficionados of Canadian design, and the first major book to identify and document more than fifty years of contemporary product design in Canada.

From the radical Project G stereo that every well-appointed, Pop-inspired “bachelor pad” had to have, to the wedge-shaped Contempra phone that quickly convinced homeowners to replace their boring black telephones, Canadian design has entered our homes and shaped our lives. Most of us have sat on one of the ubiquitous moulded plywood chairs that furnish every church basement and Legion, or bought a chromed dome kettle, or marvelled at how a garbage can was elevated to the status of a champagne bucket. For the first time, we can look at these products through the eyes of the designers who created them, and celebrate their achievements.

Design in Canada showcases designs that were destined for mass production, and covers everything from popular plastic dishes to refined high-style furniture. The book also features textiles, small appliances and lighting fixtures that have rarely been seen, or, in areas like consumer electronics and ceramics, that have not been as thoroughly documented.

The book also explores the movements and influences that have shaped design in Canada through time: from personal artistic challenges to the global juggernaut of modernism and beyond. Whether exploring post-war materials like plastic or aluminum, or finding ways to capture and tame new technology, Canadian designers have worked with imagination, style and an eye to the global market.

Magnificently illustrated, with extensive appendices providing a “who’s who” in the world of Canadian design, Design in Canada will be welcomed by everyone who shares an interest in design. Whether you are decorating your home, or are a professional or student involved in industrial, interior or architectural design, you will appreciate this comprehensive reference to more than a half-century of Canada’s rich design heritage.

Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home: Recipes for Everyday and Every Occasion

Anna Olson, Michael Olson

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Food for thought 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Anna Olson has done a lot within a relatively short media career. I bought this book for my wife. And she has not put it down since.

Great work.

Editorial Review:

Join premier chefs Anna and Michael Olson as they entertain at home

Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home invites readers into the home kitchen of Ontario's premier chefs Anna and Michael Olson where they offer practical and often humorous advice on cooking and entertaining, and share their culinary inspirations and handy techniques.

More than a collection of inspired recipes, this book is a useful, down-to-earth guide that relates food to the everyday details of life. With over 200 recipes divided into sections such as people, necessity, adventures, and occasions, Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home examines food for all of life's events, routine and special, from an intimate dinner for four to a party of 60, and from a child's birthday party to dinner with the boss.

Accompanied by playful and insightful comments from both Anna and Michael, the recipes are as delightful to read as they are to make.

Lumiere Light: Recipes from the Tasting Bar

Rob Feenie, Marnie Coldham

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Here are 90 of the most popular dishes and drinks from the Lumière Tasting Bar in Vancouver, an international culinary hot spot with a seductive glow, tapa-sized portions of sublime cuisine, and sophisticated cocktails. Now home cooks can reproduce these tantalizing tidbits for their own entertaining: Short Rib Sandwich, Duck Breast Salad with Vanilla-Poached Quince and Pomegranate, Truffled Raw Milk Camembert with Roasted Figs and Brioche, and India Spice Ice Cream. The drinks section includes the Sidecar, the French 75, and the Sazerac.

Blueberries: Recipes from Canada's Best Chefs

Elaine Elliot, Virginia Lee

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Buy this Book 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is an excellent recipe book of blueberry recipes from the Canadian Maritimes. I prepared about a half dozen of the recipes, and I can tell you they are top notch 5 star type dishes. these are not your typical and precictable recipes. These are the type of dishes you would see at high end restaurants. I purchased about 10 blueberry recipe books from amazon because I have about 30 mature blueberry bushes. I found that the best recipes come from this book and " True Blueberry". They are both worth the money. Try the Blueberry Trifle and the Cobbler made with Maple syrup.

Editorial Review:

Plump blueberries burst with the taste of summer. Blueberries offers an array of delicious blueberry recipes you can enjoy year-round.
Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee, authors of the tantalizing series of illustrated cookbooks, offer up fresh ideas: Blueberry and Goat Cheese Souflé; Hazelnut, Blueberry and Mango Cobbler; and Peppered Loin of Caribou with Blueberry Cabernet Sauce. The recipes come from chefs in British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario and the three Atlantic Provinces. With beautiful photography of ingredients and the featured dishes, these recipes look as great as they taste -- and anyone can make them. All these recipes have been tested and adapted for home cooking.

The Laura Secord Canadian Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series)

Laura Secord

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Essential cookbook in your collection 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I purchased this cookbook about 25 years ago. This book showed me how to make the perfect apple pie using brown sugar. It showed me how to make wonderful popovers and lemon bread which my family loves. My daughters use my well-worn edition for stuffing and sauce recipes. If you only have one cookbook, this should be the one!!!

The Best Cookbook in my Kitchen 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I was given this cookbook as a wedding gift eighteen years ago. It is worn out! Its a wonderful book for anyone who is Canadian and living elsewhere. The butter tart recipe is fantastic and the cake recipes are excellent. The photography is interesting, as well!

Editorial Review:

Canadian cuisine is recognized the world over as a unique combination of fresh ingredients and a variety of cultural influences tempered by tradition. This third title in the Classic Canadian Cookbook Series highlights the origins of Canada's most beloved recipes, featuring dishes such as Gaspe Tourtiere (a traditional French-Canadian Christmas Eve dish), and Shediac Brown Bread (a molasses-based bread). Known as "the first truly Canadian cookbook," this faithful replica of the 1966 edition is a must for cooks anywhere.

Salut!: The Quebec Microbrewery Beer Cookbook

Raymond Beauchemin

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Cooking with Quebec beer is raised to a culinary art in this recipe book featuring soups, appetizers, salads, dressings, and main dishes made with local microbrews (or with easy-to-find American substitute beers also listed). The colorful history of beer-making in Quebec from early Recollet missionaries to contemporary pubs illuminates the distinctive attributes of this region's ales.

Double Dishing: Women Entertain

Cinda Chavich, Pam Fortier, dee Hobsbawn-Smith, Karen Miller, Gail Norton, Shelley Robinson, Janet Webb

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Join these top chefs as they reunite to make everything as effortless as possible. Drawing on personal experience, these nine women help even the novice host look like a pro. The creations, which are paired with wine recommendations, are combined to create exciting menus for entertaining including the Mediterranean Mezes menu and the Brunch for a Brunch for Bunch menu. From beginnings to endings, recipes such as Cedar-Planked Brie with Roasted Garlic, My Favourite Asparagus Salad, and Rack of Lamb with Balsamic Demi are carefully created to ensure that they work for all types of entertaining.

Awards

• Cuisine Canada:
  2003 - English language Cookbook
  Double Dishing (Shortlisted)

Elizabeth Baird's Classic Canadian Cooking: Menus for the Seasons

Elizabeth Baird

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Inspired by the cookbooks of the past and family recipe collections, Elizabeth Baird's Classic Canadian Cooking has itself become a classic. Her 300 recipes embody the experience of generations of Canadian cooks and profit from the possibilities offered by native produce.

Relying on fresh ingredients abundant in Canada, this book takes its cue from the seasons, with menus for meals and for special occasions. Enjoy Open-Faced Nasturtium Sandwiches, Baked Peameal Bacon, Grilled Steaks with Oyster Stuffing, Pan-Fried Minted Brook Trout, Baked Apples with Rum and Cider Sauce, Lumber Camp Apple Pie, and dozens of other dishes drawn from Canada's many culinary traditions.

Exploring Canada's cookery can be as exciting and delicious as discovering the possibilities of French, Italian or Chinese cuisine. Elizabeth Baird's Classic Canadian Cooking is a splendid compendium of this nation's diverse foodways. (19951213)