Maritime Flavours

The 7th edition of the ultimate guidebook for an unforgettable culinary tour of the Maritime Provinces

Maritime cooking starts with great local produce--lobster, scallops, oysters, blueberries, apples, cranberries, maple syrup, and more. There are treasured traditional dishes--hodge podge, baked beans, gingerbread, blueberry grunt--as well as the simple but delicious lobster boil. Leading chefs like Craig Flinn of Halifax's Chives restaurant, Michael Howell of The Tempest in Wolfville, and many others have come up with wonderful new ways of cooking with fresh, local ingredients. Best Recipes of the Maritime Provinces brings the traditional and the contemporary together in one great collection. During her many years as Canadian Living magazine's food editor, Elizabeth Baird was a great fan of Maritime cooking. She has visited every corner of the region to research and write about great local producers and cooks and their recipes. To prepare this collection, she started with well over 1,000 recipes published in cookbooks over the past three decades. From those, she has selected 400+ recipes by over fifty of the region's leading chefs, including Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee, whose bestselling Maritime Flavours has sold more than 30,000 copies. Also included are tasty recipes from healthy eating champions Maureen Tilley and Sandra Nowlan. This is the book that every Maritime cook will want--and that visitors will take home so they can explore the region's rich culinary traditions.

The season of crisp sunshine and fireside evenings is also the time for setting up preserves and preparing festive food for Thanksgiving, for making pots of soup and fruit pies. The recipes in Fall Flavours offer a full range of soups, appetizers, entrees and desserts, as well as ideas for breakfast, light lunch and beverages. They make the best use of fresh ingredients, such as squash, root vegetables and seasonal fruit. All the recipes have been tested and adapted for home cooking. Accompanying the text are beautiful photographs of many of the featured dishes as prepared by the chefs and the authors themselves, and other images of fall and its bounty. Recipes for Fall Flavours were gathered from many of Canada's finest restaurants which feature fresh seasonal dishes on their menus. Contributors come from across the country, and include such award-winning restaurants as Chives Canadian Bistro, Halifax, Caf? Brio, Victoria, Hillebrand's Vineyard Caf?, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Windsor House of St. Andrews, NB. Fall Flavours is a companion volume to Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee's recent successful seasonal cookbook Summer Flavours. A Books for Everybody 2003 Selection

Fresh strawberries are one of the great culinary joys of summer. Here are 40 great strawberry recipes from master chefs--dishes that will let you enjoy the flavour of these beautiful and plentiful berries any time of the day. Indulge yourself at breakfast with Strawberry Pecan Muffins, enjoy tasty entrées such as Poached Salmon with Strawberry Leek Sauce, or savour delicious desserts like Wild Strawberry Pie. Photographed on location at more than 25 fine restaurants and inns, these innovative dishes look as good as they taste -- and anyone can make them! Every one has been tested and adapted for home use. Strawberries: 40 Recipes for Fine Dining at Home is a volume in the tantalizing Flavours series of fully illustrated cookbooks.

Lobster rolls are a unique East Coast speciality. From the simplest dinner to the fanciest fine dining restaurant, chefs compete to come up with imaginative and tasty versions of this tasty dish. This first in Canadian cookbooks features 50 fantastic recipes for lobster rolls and their accompaniments. The best locally-caught seafood combined with fresh local ingredients creates tempting, tasty and healthy dishes. The recipes have been gathered from diners, food trucks and restaurants in all three Maritime provinces. Many have won their chefs prizes and awards. All have been tested by the authors. Colour photographs accompany each dish. The result is a great souvenir or gift from the Maritimes.

This cookbook offers all kinds of great ideas for preparing Canada's east coast delicacy. Of course there are instructions for the best boiled lobster anyone has ever tasted, but there are also comfort food recipes for Lobster Poutine and Maritime Lobster Roll, as well as fancier dishes like Butter Poached Lobster, and even Lobster Truffle Gnocchi with Lobster Emulsion. Authors Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee went to some of Canada's finest chefs to get their best ideas for preparing lobster. The cookbook includes a delicious and unusual Lobster Chowder, Lobster Bisque , and Lobster Soufflé. Chef Stefan Czapalay has contributed some great new favourites like Lobster Mac 'n' Cheese, Lobster Shabu Shabu, and Lobster Caesar Salad. All the recipes have been adapted and tested for home cooking. They are illustrated in full colour throughout the book. As well, there's an introduction that answers every question about lobsters: when they are in season, how to tell male from female, how to pick the tastiest lobster with the most meat, and how east coast Canadian lobster differs from its American lobster neighbour.

What better way to get a taste of Nova Scotia than to enjoy a bowl of seafood chowder! Visitors know that Nova Scotia is rich in history, beauty, and seafood. In every town, at every stop along your way, you find Nova Scotians making chowder. Now Nova Scotia boasts the world’s first Chowder Trail, featuring local restaurants offering outstanding chowders to visitors and residents alike. Cookbook authors Elaine Elliot and Virginia Lee have selected the best of these recipes, tested and adapted them for home use and brought them together in this appealing collection. Every bowl of chowder tells a story of its community’s roots and local harvest. This collection of recipes offers home cooks many great ideas on how to use fresh seafood from the Atlantic coast combined with other seasonal ingredients to produce tempting, tasty and healthy dishes.

Favourite recipes from Nova Scotia's South Shore -- easy to prepare, with beautiful colour photos.