Lidia’s From Our Family Table to Yours

Lidia’s From Our Family Table to Yours – More Than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All Occasions Lidia Bastianich’s newest cookbook is co-authored by her daughter, Tanya Bastianich Manuali, and is full of family stories and passed-down recipes. Lidia shares the dishes she cooks for the ones she loves the most. I’ve had the…

Crust: Essential Sweets and Savories

Cookbook Corner – Crust Bakery  Fans of Victoria, B.C’s Crust Bakery can now satisfy their sweet and savoury cravings at home when they cook from Crust: Essential Sweets and Savories from Victoria’s Beloved Bakery. With over 85 recipes, home bakers will learn the secrets behind those delicious bakery items. More on Cookbooks   Within the…

The 2024 James Beard Media Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 James Beard Media Awards The James Beard Media Awards took place in Chicago on Saturday, June 8 and honoured the nation’s top food authors, broadcast producers, hosts, journalists, podcasters, and social media content creators. Join us in celebrating the winners below! More Cookbook Coverage 2024 James Beard Foundation…

Chocolate All Day by Steven Hodge

Chocolate All Day – From Simple to Decadent, 100+ Recipes For Everyone’s Favorite Ingredient By Steven Hodge Calling all chocolate lovers, here’s the book for you – 100 rich, delicious, yet accessible recipes for baking with chocolate all day long! Chocolate All Day is from Temper Pastry owner, chocolatier, pastry chef, and TV star, Steven…

BReD – Sourdough Loaves, Small Breads, and Other Plant-Base Baking

Vegan chef and artisan bread-maker Ed Tatton shares techniques and 100 recipes for making naturally leavened sourdough loaves, small breads, and earth-friendly small baked goods. We love this cookbook and you are lucky to get two recipes from it as well,  Ginger and Molasses Cookies and Spiced Carrot and Walnut Cake, just in time for…

5 Ingredients Mediterranean Jamie Oliver

5 Ingredients Mediterranean Dishes Out Flavour Without the Fuss Chef Jamie Oliver is back with the follow-up to his most popular cookbook to date — this time inspired by the food from his travels — 5 Ingredients Mediterranean. This eagerly awaited new cookbook follows the tremendous success of its predecessor, 5 Ingredients, which has sold…

Cookbooks by Asian and Asian American Chefs

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Calls for A Cookbook Celebration Try out new versions of your favourite recipes from these cookbooks by some of the best chefs out there for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and all year round! And if you’re still craving more dishes, check out Brandon Jew’s Lunar New Year recipe perfect…

The Artful Pie Project by Denise Marchessault and Deb Garlick

The Artful of Pie by Denise Marchessault In honour of pie day, March 14 3.14, we salute the Queen of Pie, Denise Marchessault, and her newest cookbook The Artful Pie Project, with Deb Garlick. Denise is a fellow member of Les Dames d’Escoffier British Columbia and has been an integral part of our scholarship committee…

Cookbooks for Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month Through Cookbooks Penguin Random House has a wonderful list of Cookbooks to celebrate Black History Month. “Food is an important part of the fabric of our lives, and it’s one way we can connect with people from diverse cultural backgrounds from our own. In celebration of Black History Month, they’ve curated…

Cookbooks – Vegan Chinese Kitchen

The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition: A Cookbook – Hannah Che  Author Hannah Che discovered the tradition of Zhai cai, a Chinese cooking technique emphasizing vegetarian cooking using umami-rich ingredients that has its roots in Buddhist temple kitchens. In The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, Che replicates Chinese dishes in a meatless way,…

Asian Cookbooks for Lunar New Year

Asian Cookbooks to Expand Your Cooking Repertoire Start the new year with Asian cookbooks that will elevate your cooking skills and expand your recipe repertoire with Thai, Vietnamese, Korean and Taiwanese recipes.  Written by Asian authors from all over the world, these cookbooks emphasize the joy of shared meals and gathering with family and loved…

Cookbooks – The Woks of Life

The Woks of Life by Bill, Kaitlin, Judy, and Sarah Leung This is the story of a family as told through food. Judy, the mom, speaks about traditional Chinese dishes and cultural backstories. Bill, the dad, worked in his family’s Chinese restaurants and will walk you through how to make a glorious Cantonese Roast Duck….

The Best Cookbooks of 2022

Cookbooks You Need on Your Shelf from the Best Cookbooks of 2022 How does one proclaim that these are the best cookbooks of 2022, or even try to compete with that title in an SEO search without some absurd keywords that cater to the search engines and not necessarily the people reading this article? I…

Taste Canada Awards

For the 25th consecutive year, Taste Canada Awards has announced the winners of Canada’s only national, bilingual food writing awards. This year, eighty-seven cookbooks entered the Taste Canada competition, representing authors from nine provinces. The shortlist announced in June narrowed the competition to forty-five cookbooks, representing authors from six provinces. CANADA’S BEST COOKBOOKS 2022 English-Language…

James Beard Media Award Nominees

Check out the James Beard Media Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism nominees! The 2022 Media Award Nominees have been announced in advance of the returning James Beard Awards® award ceremonies presented by Capital One. The nominees cover outstanding achievements in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism.  The Emerging Category, first introduced in the Journalism Awards program,…

Best Cookbooks of 2021

Rounding Up the Best Cookbooks of 2021 This was certainly a stellar year for cookbooks and narrowing down the list to the Best Cookbooks of 2021 was an extremely challenging task. So many great ones made their debut, but here are more than a few that are worthy of a spot on your shelf, in…

Rebecca Coleman Demystifies Vegan Baking

Vegan Baking Made Easy, 60 Foolproof, Plant-Based Recipes Rebecca Coleman, a Vancouver-Based food blogger, loves nothing more than baking for her friends and family. She’s recently released Vegan Baking Made Easy, 60 Foolproof, Plant-Based Recipes. Vegan Baking Made Easy is currently available on Amazon! Purchase Now We caught up with her to learn a little…

Taste Canada Awards Canadian Cookbooks

Taste Canada Awards has announced the winners of the country’s only national, bilingual food writing awards As you all know I’m obsessed with cookbooks and am always keen to see who receives the Taste Canada Awards. As most of my readers are English-speaking, I’ve included the English titles only. Congratulations to everyone who’s brave enough…

Taste Canada Awards Shortlist Revealed

Taste Canada releases the shortlist for the 2020 awards, with authors from 6 provinces represented So excited to see some of our friends here and we highly recommend checking out all of these books!  In a year where cookbooks have taken centre stage in the homes of Canadians across the country, it has never been…

In My Kitchen With Emily Lycopolus

Emily Lycopolus’ Teaches From Her Award Winning Cedar + Salt Cookbook When we first saw Emily Lycopolus’ newest cookbook, Cedar + Salt, we immediately fell in love with the stunning photography in this tribute to Vancouver Island’s producers and artisans. Lycopolus grew up on the Island and has assembled this collection of approachable recipes that…