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The Fourth Annual Sprouts cookbook awards will soon be upon us. On Thursday, April 8 at 6 p.m. we honour Tender Volume 1 by Nigel Slater (Judges’ choice) and The Tastes of Sonora Resort by Matthew Stowe (People’s choice) with a festive evening of good cheer, hors d’oeuvres prepared by Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala and [...]

Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant receives prestigious James Beard Award nomination The warm afterglow of the Winter Olympics was further brightened when Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant recently gained two international cookbook awards and high praise from chefs Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal. Yesterday, things went truly stellar, with [...]

 Evaleen Jaager Roy had a vision. Take one glorious west coast garden described and photographed through the seasons, add four celebrity chefs with seasonal, locally-inspired recipes, and add unique ideas for “living slow” and enjoying each moment in this magical part of the world. The result: the just-released Four Chefs One Garden. Part cookbook, part [...]

Four Chefs One Garden The Story In her unique debut, Vancouver native Evaleen Jaager Roy traces one year spent in her terraced, oceanview garden and in her kitchen. Organized seasonally, the sumptuously illustrated book weaves together backyard gardening tips with recipes from the city’s leading chefs, including one-name superstars Umberto and Tojo. But while Four [...]

A note from TopTable proprietor, Jack Evrensel: “Cookbooks may take years to compile and months to edit, but their real joy comes when you bring them home, and just cook.” Our entire Top Table team is delighted to share with you that our two recently released cookbooks, Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant [...]

From the restaurant the Globe and Mail calls “the most original and exciting fish and seafood restaurant this country has ever seen,” comes a highly anticipated cookbook by owner Harry Kambolis and executive chef Robert Clark. C Food brings the bold avant garde concepts of C Restaurant to the printed page in a stunning book [...]

275 Soul-Satisfying Recipes – by Judith Finlayson “My concept of comfort food is warm and welcoming and provides a sense of sustenance — a kind of culinary haven in a heartless world. But most of all it is delicious. When things seem grim, there is nothing like a mouth-watering bite of something delectable to set [...]

Mountain + Valley + Ocean – Araxi’s elegant yet easily approachable cookbook champions the seasons and its locale From the pans of Whistler’s famed Araxi Restaurant and executive chef James Walt, to the pages of Araxi’s new cookbook, come seasonal recipes accessible to the home cook, and packed with regional flavours of ranch, field and [...]