Want to introduce your budding chefs to Caribbean food? Start with an inspiring story about a little girl’s experience in the kitchen and her struggles and perseverance that ultimately produces a wonderful meal. Granny’s Kitchen is author Sadé Smith’s debut children’s book where she portrays a little girl, Shelly-Ann, learning to replicate her grandmother’s familiar […]
Meet author Peter Robinson…a Canadian/British author that has some serious writing experience on his resume. I’ve read every book in the Inspector Banks series and always have the next installment on my book store’s wish list. And when the 27th book, Not Dark Yet, came out in 2021, it was at the top of my
Since we’re reviewing a cookbook from Ottawa, I thought it would be fun to highlight the work of an author that sets his Angus series in the political capital. Along with the series, Terry has released some wonderful stand-alone novels as well. We first hear of Daniel and his Scottish political side-kick Angus in The
This summer at Canadian Cookbooks, we’re exploring culinary travel throughout our great country. Alberta is a must on any foodie’s list to discover local and regional cuisine. And what easier way to do that but to tuck this book under your arm and use the experts’ knowledge of their province: Karen Anderson and Matilde Sanchez-Turri.
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We have heard how important it is to eat and shop local during the pandemic…and our farmers are happy with that shift in food consciousness. The company that is elevating this idea is G’day…connecting people with local farm producers in your backyard. If you’ve ever stopped by a roadside farm stall selling the family’s yield,
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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Who better to know about edibles for our garden, than author Mike Lascelle, a nursery manager and certified arborist. He brings 35 years of experience that includes estate gardening, landscape construction and design along with authoring several books on plant selection and garden design, as well as articles for various publications. He lives in Maple Ridge,
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Photo: Amos Family Picnic, 1937. Taken by Harold G. Amos, at Lighthouse Beach near North Bay. I was intrigued with this cover photo as my dad is buried in North Bay and spent his last years there. He enjoyed eating outdoors and was a social butterfly in large crowds. With this picture and others in this
We’ve all come to love hummus over the last decade and it’s become a staple in many people’s fridges. But if you want to elevate your hummus experience, you need to go to talk to Yohannes. Entrepreneur Yohannes Petros along with his parents and family immigrated from East Africa in 1980 and settled in the
Tim Hortons is as iconic to Canada as saying “eh”! When I traveled for business, I could always count on a Timmies being somewhere within reach for my daily dose of caffeine. In the town my kids grew up in, for a population of 25,000, there are six Tim Hortons – guess we needed a
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