Canada's Favourite Recipes

Book excerpt: Canada's beloved food writers, and long-time friends, Rose Murray and Elizabeth Baird have teamed up to create an all-new cookbook containing some of the most quintessential and delicious recipes of Canadian cuisine. A beautiful keepsake hardcover book, Canada's Favourite Recipes is not only a treasury of homespun food but a visual cornucopia. This is an evocative volume you will want to give to every friend on your holiday shopping list this year -- and still keep one for yourself. Over 125 recipes are complemented by Rose and Elizabeth's own personal anecdotes as well as recollections from fine chefs about food and dishes from their heritage and home regions. The recipes are a perfect balance of simple, easy-to-follow instructions and unique flavour combinations, making this book a must-have for any food lover with a desire to understand the roots of Canadian food.