Favourite Cookbooks From This Year’s Crop I’ve read over 100 cookbooks this year in some form of another and am truly addicted to them and count about 800 in my library that I recently had arranged in a manner that they actually make sense! I pour over these books, reading the stories behind the recipes…
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Taste Canada Announces 2018 Food Writing Awards – News Release
Taste Canada Food Writing Awards #TasteCanada Y’all know how much I love my cookbooks! Congratulations to all these winners! Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada (tastecanada.org) has announced the winners of the country’s only national, bilingual food writing awards. October is National Cookbook Month #Love Cookbooks #MoreThanRecipes A champion of cookbook authors and…
Food Gays Cooking In Color
Food Gays Launch Their First Cookbook And It’s Gorgeous I’ve known the Food Gays, Adrian Harris and Jeremy Inglett for a few years now and I feel proud to see them accomplish so much and have so enjoyed watching their journey. Their food styling and photography is so well done and also well documented on Instagram (@foodgays), and…
Contest Closed #Giveaway Starters, Salads, and Sexy Sides – Newest Cookbook From Caren McSherry
Inspiring Recipes to Make Every Meal an Occasion When Gourmet Warehouse owner Chef Caren McSherry publishes a cookbook, or announces any new project, people eagerly await the release or occasion. This week her newest cookbook is hitting the shelves, and she’s hosting an event to celebrate it. We’ve been lucky enough to preview it and…
Cookbook Feature – Lick Your Plate – Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat
Lick Your Plate Cookbook – Simple, Easy Homecooking I’ve got a lot of cookbooks to catch up on and feature! Lick Your Plate landed March 2016, but is a classic, with more than a few great recipes that I need to share with y’all. Lick Your Plate has 160 recipes easy to follow recipes for home…
Lidia Bastianich An Inspiration and A Gala Guest
Lidia Bastianich Visits Vancouver – Honoured at Les Dames d’Escoffier Gala If memory serves me right, Lidia Bastianich, the Italian-born American restaurateur, cookbook author and television host, last visited Vancouver in 2013 with her newest book at the time, Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking. This is in fact, exactly how Bastianich presents herself, as a person with…
Cookbook – Butter Celebrates
Butter Celebrates – Rosie Daykin Shares her Fabulous Sweets Butter Celebrates, is bakery owner Rosie Daykin’s second cookbook (Butter Baked Goods was released in 2013) and this time she is sharing a year of celebratory recipes. From Valentine’s Day to New Year’s and everything in between, Daykin has recipes for every festive occasion. If you…
Avocado Tools
Avocado tools that up your avocado game! So you say you love avocados? As you well know so do I, but when it comes to presenting them perfectly, they can sometimes turn out a bit less appealing if you don’t wield your knife right. After all these fruits are delicate creatures. So, I thought I’d…
Cookbook – Grilling with House of Q
BBQ season is all year round in Vancouver, so pick up Grilling with House of Q and continue on grilling! The secret to good barbecue is a the proper grilling temperature, some great meat and Brian Misko’s new book “Grilling With House of Q”. For good measure a set of his sauces and rubs doesn’t…
Whitewater Cooks with Passion
As an addict of cookbooks, and an owner of many, I was eager to get my hands on the newest Whitewater Cooks with Passion Cookbook, the fourth in the serious. This book is indeed filled with passionate recipes, and just flipping through the pages reignited my own cooking passion. I’ve whipped up many of the easy…
A BITTER APERO WITH JENNIFER MCLAGAN
Jennifer McLagan will be at Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks in the shop today. Author of Bones, Fat, Odd Bits, and now Bitter, Jennifer is someone we admire and look forward to welcoming back to the shop each time she comes. We always learn so much. Before our sold out dinner tonight, Jennifer will host an…
Handmade Gifts From The Kitchen
It’s not too late to be that person that makes all of their Christmas gifts. You don’t need to channel Martha Stewart; there’s many fairly low effort items that you can whip up in your kitchen and look like a superstar with something either savoury or sweet. Thanks to the cookbook from Alison Walker, Handmade Gifts From The…
Cocktails & Conversation with Yotam Ottolenghi
As part of the Jewish Book Festival on Tuesday Oct 21 at 6:30pm Yotam Ottonlenghi will mix and mingle at a meet and greet that will certainly attract all of Vancouver’s true cooks and food lovers. $150, includes a signed copy of his newest book, Plenty More, hors d’ oeuvres and beverages. Space is extremely…
Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands at Books to Cooks
Author Don Genova will be at Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks to celebrate the publication of his book, Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Don will be visiting from Vancouver Island to lead a salon discussion about the food artisans of these regions. It’s also a celebration the anniversary of Don and his wife who…
Jennifer Schell Puts the Okanagan on the Culinary World Map
First there was one award, then another, another, and yet another, bringing the trophy count now to an impressive five for Okanagan-based writer Jennifer Schell. Schell grew up in the sunny Okanagan, a farm girl at heart, who’s equally comfortable dressing to the nines to check out the latest hot spot in dining. She’s traveled…
2014 James Beard Award Awards
The list is long this year, but we plan on getting through at least part of this reading and eating list. GLV The 2014 James Beard Awards will be held in New York City in May. The Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards ceremony will take place at Gotham Hall on Friday, May 2, with the James…
The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine and Cheese Maker Wins Best International Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Local Cuisine Book in Canada
Awesome news for Jennifer Schell! Still time to buy for XMAS presents. GLV Jennifer Schell, author of The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine and Cheese Maker – An Okanagan Cookbook has been honoured with the award for “Best Local Cuisine cookbook in Canada” at the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are often compared by journalists to…
Taste Canada – Food Writing Awards 2013
Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Awards. Good to see our pal and Quinoa master Marilyn Smith in there. All great books worth of a place on your shelf. GLV Taste Canada the food writing awards drew 64 submissions this year, a brilliant snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of Canadian culinary publishing. The winners…
Decades of Decadence
While the Best of Bridge has always been my go to for old-school recipes, I now have another cookbook on the shelf which is a treat to both read and cook from. Rebecca Klemke has managed to pen a memoir to her grandmother and a recipe book all in one. Take more than a few…
The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine & Cheese Maker – An Okanagan Cookbook Celebrates the Stars of the Culinary Okanagan
Authored by food and wine columnist Jennifer Schell, the cookbook, The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine & Cheese Maker – An Okanagan Cookbook celebrating the Okanagan’s food culture and cuisine is set to hit bookshelves November 2012. Described by Schell as a “love letter to all who have created, grown and nurtured our special ‘place’…
