The complete city guide for the culinary traveller. Including Ottawa’s neighbourhoods, markets, cooking schools, kitchen stores, local food, and where to eat and drink!
n October 15, 2015 Visa Infinite Privilege hosted a magical dining event featuring a quartet of Canada’s leading chefs. Vikram Vij of Vancouver’s Vij’s, Rangoli and My Shanti, brought his fragrant Indian curries to Calgary, joining with the meat-obsessed Connie DeSousa and John Jackson of CHARCUT Roast House and Paul Rogalski of the garden-to-table Rouge […]
This is Brazil by Fernanda de Paula and Shelley Hepworth (Random House, 2014) Like the country itself, this book is a riot of colour, with hundreds of photographs, and with recipes that drive home the long history of ethnic mingling that’s given rise to “this bubbling culture of passionate people.” This is Brazil delivers the […]
Spices & Seasons by Rinku Bhattacharya (Hippocrene, 2014) A big, practical and personal book by an Indian-born American cook, that introduces the reader to Bhattacharya’s suburban backyard and her own tool chest of flavours, essential spices, pastes and rubs that inform her home cooking. Vibrant full-page pictures illustrate every recipe; chapters start with the essential […]
Brassicas by Laura B. Russell (Ten Speed, 2014) Here are all the horrible vegetables our mothers made us eat or “No Dessert!” and all the ones we’re now instructed to eat in order to live long and prosper. Brassicas takes the unglamorous Brussels sprout and tosses in pancetta and a fig glaze and suddenly it’s […]