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Books for Cooks

C Restaurant Book Signing and Tasting

by paulkamon 01.26.2010

WHAT: C Restaurant will be visiting three select Chapters locations for food tastings and book signings for its newly released hard cover cook book, C Food.

DETAILS: Taste some of Vancouver’s finest seafood creations from C Restaurant and get your copy of C Food signed by co-author and C Restaurant Executive Chef, Robert Clark.

January 31, [...]

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Cook Book Launch: “A Boy After the Sea”

by paulkamon 09.11.2009

When: Thursday, September 17th 2009, from 5.00pm
Where: Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks, 1740 West 2 Avenue, Vancouver
How: Tickets cost $65 (including a copy of the book) and are available from www.bookstocooks.com
“An enticing collection of recipes from our oceans, rivers and lakes finds form in a stunning coffee table book, launching this month. Featuring recipes crafted [...]

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In Defense of Food

by BC Brew 06.26.2009

^ Michael Pollan speaking on North America’s dysfunctional relationship with food (Jackie Connelly photo).
Berkeley author, Michael Pollan, was in Vancouver recently to promote the paperback release of his critically-acclaimed book, In Defense of Food. Barbara-Jo McIntosh invited him to speak at UBC Farm as part of a fundraiser to protect the 24 hectare farm from [...]

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West: The Cookbook

by Keith Talent 10.27.2008

I recently got my hands on a copy of the new book celebrating West on Granville. A job well done to everyone involved. Although the cover says it’s by Warren Geraghty a quick read shows like a great restaurant, it too is a collaboration of many.
I saw Mr. Geraghty on the Noon News the other [...]

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Barbara-Jo: “Beyond The Great Wall”

by Paul Kamon 07.15.2008

Barbara-Jo cannot get over Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s latest book, Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China ($45).
This is the fifth book in the couple’s series of award-winning titles that include Flatbreads & Flavors, Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, and Mangoes & Curry Leaves. This gloriously aesthetic cookbook [...]

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Mr. Holland’s Opus

by Paul Kamon 03.31.2008

Tony Minichiello , owner/instructor at NCAV and a fellow CTS Board member has a sage blog happening at his school’s website. This is one of his latest posts, entitled Time to Change the “Reality” Spiel:

The “reality” of becoming a professional cook is the same old story no different than “when I was your age, I [...]

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‘Fortune Cookie’ Gets Lukewarm Review

by Paul Kamon 03.27.2008

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, the book that’s been getting a lot of local media play because it singled out a Richmond joint as the best Chinese restaurant in the world, gets dinged in tomorrow’s Seattle PI:
Reading Lee’s “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” ends up being much like eating some Chinese meals — filling at first yet [...]

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“Heat” Author Buford on Charlie Rose

by Paul Kamon 01.30.2008

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Heat author and New Yorker journalist Bill Buford spends an hour with Charlie Rose discussing his year working the line at Babbo for Mario Batali.

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