Cooking for Me and Sometimes You; A Parisienne Romance with Recipes
by Barbara-jo McIntosh
With its linen cover, ragged edged paper, ribbon bookmark and pencil illustrations this book is as much a pleasure to hold, as it is to read. You might be able to guess that the author is also a bookseller. In this charming little book she recounts how she made her dream of spending a month cooking and eating in Paris a reality. How many of us would love to do the same? She falls in love with the City of Lights and a man. She takes us through Paris cobbled streets and we inhale the city with her, delight in its pleasures and learn that no dream has perfect ending. That this book has recipes too, makes it all the more enjoyable.
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Jennifer McLagan
Jennifer McLagan has been called courageous, a contrarian and even a little crazy. Well in these dietarily correct times, she is definitely a provocative iconoclast who challenges us and makes us rethink our relationship to what we eat. And while she creates delicious recipes she believes that food is more than recipes. So equipped with a quirky sense of humour, a taste for the bizarre, and bowerbird tendencies she delves into food’s history, myth and culture adding to the literature of food and cooking. Her books garner prizes everywhere, BONES won the James Beard Best Single Subject Cookbook award, was a winner in the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, and a finalist in the IACP cookbook awards. FAT won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Cookbook Cover, the Silver Sprout Award, and both the IACP and James Beard Awards for Best Single Subject Cookbook. It was also named Cookbook of the Year 2009 by the Beard Foundation and is short listed for Cuisine Canada awards. But her publisher just wishes they’d sell better.