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Four Chefs One Garden – new cookbook from Vancouver’s great chefs

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Four Chefs One Garden

Umberto MenghiMichel JacobTojoVikram Vij

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 Chefs One Garden is a practical resource, it is also a personal story of coming home. Jaager Roy took a long sabbatical from an international career to start her garden and the book documents her quest to slow down and reconnect with the people and places she loves on the West Coast.

The book includes seasonal recipes from acclaimed French chef Michel Jacob, Italian celebrity chef Umberto Menghi, sushi master Hidekazu Tojo and Indian fusion pioneer Vikram Vij. Each seasonal section also features interviews and horticultural tips from some of the West Coast’s leading gardeners, including Brian Minter of Minter Gardens. Lush photography shows the march of Vancouver’s changing seasons both in the garden, where spring rains lead to summer roses and in the kitchen, where Tuscan salads give way to spicy winter curries.

The Details

Angelique TulipsFour Chefs One Garden
ISBN 978-0-9864781-0-9
$29.95
www.fourchefsonegarden.com

($1 from the sale of every book will go to feed women and children living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver through the YWCA’s Crabtree Corner Family Resource Centre. The centre serves over 30,000 meals anually to families in need. www.ywcavan.org)

Four Chefs One Garden is available at Avant Gardener, Barbara-jo’s Books To Cooks, Chapters (Broadway, Langley, Metrotown, Park Royal and Richmond locations), GardenWorks, Gourmet Warehouse, Hagar Books and West Van Florist.