Top 10 Cookbooks

Over the past 5-years

Quinoa 365: The Everyday Superfood

By Patricia Green & Carolyn Hemming

Our best-selling
cookbook ever!

One of the world`s healthiest foods, quinoa contains a perfect balance of all eight essential amino acids, and is a great source of protein, making it an increasingly popular food choice for those looking to incorporate `superfoods` into their everyday diets. Gluten-free, wheat-free, and nutrient-packed, quinoa is ideal for those who are health-conscious, vegetarian, and/or physically active, as well as for those with gluten intolerance, wheat allergies, and other digestive disorders.

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Smoking Meat: The Essential Guide to Real Barbecue

By Jeff Phillips

Real barbecue taste comes from mastering the art of slow-cooking meat at a low temperature for a long time, using wood smoke to add flavour. And this is the book that shows you how to do it! For the first time, Jeff Phillips is publishing the information he has compiled on his incredibly popular website, www.smoking-meat.com.

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Whitewater Cooks: Pure, Simple and Real Creations from the Fresh Tracks Café

By Shelly Adams

Great recipes from a celebrated resort. Whitewater Resort in the Canadian Rockies is renowned for its spectacular scenery, deep snow and Fresh Tracks Cafe©. Despite constant pleading from customers, recipes for dishes made famous there were as unattainable as snowflakes in July. Now, Whitewater Cooks opens the kitchen doors.

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Spilling The Beans: Cooking And Baking With Beans Everyday

By Julie Van Rosendaal & Sue Duncan

Learning to cook delicious meals using healthy ingredients is a snap in this new cookbook from bestselling author Julie Van Rosendaal and her long-time friend Sue Duncan. With humorous anecdotes and current factoids on health, Julie and Sue explain everything from the truth behind beans and flatulence to demystifying the simple process of soaking and cooking dried beans and lentils.

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The Vegetarian's Complete Quinoa Cookbook

Edited by Mairlyn Smith

Quinoa. Healthy, tasty, versatile, a plant that's a complete protein source, what more can vegetarians or anyone, really ask for in a food? What makes quinoa so unusual is its many qualities, which combine to make it a practically perfect food.

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Canada's Favourite Recipes

By Rose Murray
& Elizabeth Baird

What is Canadian cuisine? With our country's multicultural population and relatively young age it's easy to think that we don't have a cohesive culinary landscape tying Canadians together. Veteran Canadian foodies Rose Murray and Elizabeth Baird have amassed 160 recipes that represent Canada's rich culture and history.

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The Best of Rose Reisman: 20 Years of Healthy Recipes

By Rose Reisman

Bestselling author Rose Reisman has been writing about a healthier way of living for over 20 years. She advocates healthy eating and its link to longevity, well-being and lower medical costs. The Best of Rose Reisman discusses the type of daily diet to follow to maintain optimal health, and how to avoid fad diets, food addictions and processed and restaurant foods.

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Rose Reisman's Choose It and Lose It

By Rose Reisman

We all want to eat well and keep ourselves and our families happy and healthy. But with work, school, hobbies, commuting and ferrying our kids to their extracurricular activities we don't always have time for home-cooked meals. Fast food is a reality. But it doesn't have to be a high-calorie or unhealthy reality and healthier choices can be made. Rose Reisman's Choose It and Lose It sets out a selection of the healthier choices for 64 popular Canadian restaurants, with clear explanations of what makes them better.

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Bal's Quick and Healthy Indian

By Bal Arneson

Who says Indian cooking has to be complicated? Following the national success of Everyday Indian, author Bal Arneson again brings new twists to classic Indian meals in her new book. These recipes will delight health-conscious cooks looking for new and easy ways to enjoy low-fat meals, and inspire a bit of adventure in the kitchen.

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Power of Food

By Adam Hart

Adam shows us how we can also achieve "abundant health and happiness" by eating foods with power. Power foods—whole, natural foods such as nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and beans, fruit and vegetables—are packed with nutrients and vitamins. The Power of Food shows us how to prepare and cook these foods— simply—to make delicious meals.

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"I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation."
Madame Benoit

"Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter and in wine."
Polish proverb

From The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Quotations

Who doesn't like getting cookbooks on thier favourite foods!