This week we meet Chef Joe Thottungal, author of Coconut Lagoon and owner of Thali and Coconut Lagoon restaurants in Ottawa. Both the restaurants and cookbook celebrate Joe’s culinary delights from the southern Indian region of Kerala, his home and native land. Bringing this love of his country to Canada, you know the dishes in […]
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When thinking of an epicenter of Indian cuisine, Calgary is not one of the places that immediately springs to mind. And that’s too bad, because according to Trip Advisor there are 131 East Indian/South Asian restaurants in that city. And who would know this better than Alberta’s Food Tour operator and co-author of A Spicy
We met chef Ted Reader earlier this spring when we reviewed his Gastro Grilling cookbook – check it out at https://canadiancookbooks.ca/gastro-grilling/ Now we turn our attention to smoking not only meat, but vegetables, desserts and drinks…yup, you can smoke anything! Slow and low…that’s Ted’s motto for smoking food. Patience is the key word while waiting
Right smack dab in the middle of a pandemic, author Naomi Hansen decided that Saskatchewan hadn’t been given the due it deserved in highlighting the province’s culinary delights. To correct that, she traveled throughout the province to bring us a little taste of local food and the people behind it. https://www.naomihansen.ca/ And the reaction from
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Are you a carnivore that shies away from vegetarian cookbooks? Please reconsider! Books like Eat More Plants will ensure you have the very best side dishes as well as ideas to serve your vegetarian friends. When my kids were growing up, we always had a Meatless Monday and a book like Eat More Plants would
Canadians loved to camp! With thousands of federal and provincial campsites, we can enjoy the beautiful landscape of our great country. If you’re like me and hate sleeping on the ground, there’s more options than just tenting these days. Look at https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/voyage-travel/hebergement-accommodation and see that we can now sleep off the ground in various accommodations
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It’s summertime and who wants to be in the kitchen making food that weighs us down and bloats us? Not me…and I’ve found the perfect cookbook to address all of this. Valerie Azinge of My Digital Kitchen wants to inspire you to make quick healthy dishes that everyone around the picnic table will enjoy! https://www.mydigitalkitchen.ca/my-book/
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My 90-year-old Russian-Polish mother makes buckwheat kasha every morning for breakfast. She swears by the nutritious and comforting goodness buckwheat has to offer. And she is not alone. Author Maria Depenweiller developed a whole cookbook on the ingredient and amazes us with its versatility. www.thewoodenspoon.ca The international Gourmand Awards thought it was great too and
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June 27 is Multicultural Day in Canada and I found the perfect cookbook to celebrate the many culinary influences in our country. As a child of immigrant parents, it’s important that we all feel safe and accepted in Canada. Celebrating other cultures is never more important than now in light of the political wranglings of
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As soon as you say French cooking, you hear the collective sigh meaning it must be complicated and labour intensive. Author Mardi Michels (eat.live.travel.write) is here to show you that French dishes don’t have to be out of your reach. In her debut and wildly successful book, In the French Kitchen with Kids, Mardi dispels
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