• Flavours of Tofino: Seaside Family Style compiled by Pacific Sands Resort.
- In celebration of Pacific Sand’s 40th anniversary, the resort brought together some of Tofino’s finest chefs and eateries with a collection of delicious recipes that celebrate the region’s bounty of fresh ingredients. This cookbook is for anyone who’s enjoyed a special moment at Pacific Sands and for all who gather, prepare and share food.
• Indian for Everyone: The Home Cooks Guide to Traditional Favourites by Anupy Singla.
- This gorgeous book from Singla offers more than 100 classic and popular recipes that promise to open up a world of Indian food for any home cook, regardless of dietary restrictions, level of expertise or prior familiarity with the cuisine. This beautifully illustrated book includes tips on spices and recipes for everything from street food and snacks to soups, curries, mains and desserts.
• Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practise of the Midday Meal by Peter Miller.
- This lovely book is a simple call to lunch that includes more than 50 recipes for creating mid-day meals at the office or workplace. Miller not only operates his design bookshop in Seattle, but he’s also a trained chef. Miller says in recent days lunch has been outsourced to stand-up counters and reduced to takeout platters, wrapped, rolled and packaged. Lunch at the Shop is about adopting a lifestyle that allows food to be savoured every day.
• Heart & Soil: The Revolutionary Good of Gardens by Des Kennedy.
- Kennedy, a writer, environmentalist and gardener, has gathered together his best, most outrageous and contemplative articles and essays of the past decade. According to Kennedy, it’s a “delicious paradox really: that gardening, which may seem from a distance as the mildest and most innocuous of activities, can be at the heart a revolutionary act.”
• Growing Food in a Short Season: Sustainable, Organic Cold-climate Gardening by Melanie J. Watts.
- A gardening guide from the ground to the plate, Growing Food in a Short Season emphasizes success through working with nature and using sustainable, organic practices for growing in areas with short summers and long winters. The book includes step-by-step instructions and tips on everything from choosing the right crops to how to plant and to how to build a simple cold frame. Tips for preserving your bounty for year-round eating are also included.
• Down to Earth: Cold Climate Gardens and Their Keepers by Jennifer Heath and Helen McAllister.
- These two friends from B.C.’s Elk Valley began peaking over fences to see how people living in cold climates grow their own food and the end result is Down to Earth. The book celebrates the viability of cold-climate gardening and the beauty and diversity possible in vegetable gardens grown in regions with short summers.
• Mussels: Preparing Cooking and Enjoying a Sensational Seafood by the Kilted Chef Alain Bosse and “Mussel Mama” Linda Duncan.
- If you love mussels, you’ll love this book, which offers not only recipes, but also information on everything from how mussels grow to how they’re farmed. This delightfully Canadian book also includes a forward from celebrity chef Michael Smith. The book offers a vast selection of recipes from classical approaches with a twist — curried mussels — to a mussel cocktail or even strudel.
ENTER TO WIN
The Courier is giving away all of these books to one lucky reader — who must be able to pick them up from our office before Dec. 5. To enter to win, simply “like” The Vancouver Courier Newspaper on Facebook and leave a comment under the post naming your favourite holiday go-to dish. The deadline for comments is midnight Nov. 26. The draw will take place Nov. 27 and the winner will be named in the Nov. 28 edition of Holiday Hub.
