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IACP Cookbook Award nominations.

by Danielle
Food & Drink / February 17, 2012

The International Association of Culinary Professionals today announced the first round of finalists for its 26th Annual IACP Awards. Here's a list of the books we distribute that made the list!

Food and Beverage Reference/Technical
Ruhlman’s Twenty by Michael Ruhlman & Whole Beast Butchery by Ryan Farr with Brigit Binns

Health and Special Diet
The Sweet life: Diabetes Without Boundaries by Sam Talbot

International
The Country Cooking of Italy by Colman Andrews

Single Subject
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

Cogratulations to Chronicle Books and Rodale!!
For a full list of nominees please click here.
Award winners will be announced Monday April 2nd.
Best of luck from all of us at Raincoast Books!

My Favourite Book of 2011: Natalia (Publicity)

by Natalia
Food & Drink / December 20, 2011

I got my hands on a copy of Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty earlier this year and I've been cooking my way through it ever since.  Usually when I buy a cookbook, if even one recipe makes it into my personal collection I call it a success—but with Ottolenghi it's recipe after recipe after recipe that I make over and over again.  We'll even be doing his pear crostinis as appetizers for Christmas dinner this year—and a recipe has to be pretty fabulous for my family to break with tradition on such a special occasion!

My favourite, though, has to be the saffron taggliatelle with spiced butter.  This is to die for, my friends.  I felt compelled to buy a pasta maker just to do justice to the pine nuts.

Green bean salad with mustard seeds and tarragon.  The fun part is when he directs you to pop the mustard seeds like popcorn!

Sadly, I don't have a picture handy, but I can tell you that there is nothing more exquisite than caramelized fennel with goat's cheese.  I had my doubts about fennel—it's a weird looking vegetable don't you think?—but this recipe is delicious.

What are you all cooking this week?  Have you ever changed anything about Christmas dinner or is always the same?

Vancouver Is Awesome!

by Crystal
Contests + Travel + Vancouver / February 25, 2010

Almost every day is a great day to be a Vancouverite. We have such an amazing community of diverse, passionate, driven, friendly, artistic, funny, talented, hardworking and incredible people. There are some days when I feel like I've had one too many days in a row of rain but 9 times out of 10 just when I'm feeling that way the next day the sun bursts out from behind the clouds, the snow sparkles on the North Shore Mountains, everything has been washed clean and The City of Glass shines!

I'm not the only one who thinks that Vancouver is a great place to live. So does Bob Kronbauer, in fact he things Vancouver is so awesome that he has a blog called Vancouver Is Awesome.

See the fabulous Vancouver prize pack below? Bob is giving it away on Vancouver is Awesome! It includes- The Winter Olympics: An Insider's Guide to the Legends, Lore and Events of the Games, Vancouver Edition, Vancouver Encounter and City Walks- Vancouver: 50 Adventures on Foot. Everything a true Vancouverite needs on their book shelf... because you know that now that the world has seen how beautiful Vancouver is that everyone is going to want to come and crash on your couch!

Go enter now!