New CTS Cookbook Released!
“Vancouver Cooks 2″, the new cookbook from the Chefs’ Table Society of BC, has been released and is available at Barbara Jo’s Books To Cooks and participating restaurants. The book, edited by Joan Cross, Jamie Maw, and Andrew Morrison, includes 120 recipes from 70 of BC’s top chefs, among them John Bishop (Bishop’s), Vikram Vij (Vij’s), Rob Clark (“C” Restaurant), Rob Feenie (Cactus Club), and Hidekazu Tojo (Tojo’s). Recipes are crafted to be accessible to the home cook and are paired with BC wines by wine expert and Society co-founder Sid Cross.
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September 18th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
[...] of Fields out at UBC Farm were given a sneak peek and the first opportunity to purchase the new Vancouver Cooks 2 cookbook and have it signed by a dozen of its 70 chef contributors. The book, which features 120 [...]
December 17th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
[...] Vancouver Cooks 2 is the follow-up cookbook to the 2005 Vancouver Cooks which sold an impressive 13,000 copies. This second go-around has recipes from 70 of BCs best chefs compiled by Jamie Maw, Joan Cross and Andrew Morrison (published by Douglas & McIntyre, $40, softcover, colour and b&w photos, 250 pages). Despite the title, the recipes cover a bit more BC geography than just YVR. And each recipe is cleverly paired with a BC wine. So for $40 you get to cook the types of dishes that would cost you about that much for one entrée at the majority of these places. The trouble is that chef-written recipes are, by-and-large, a pain in the ass to cook from. There are usually several steps for any given recipe — and these recipes are no exceptions. But that’s OK. I’ve learned that you can easily skip the unnecessary “jalapeno ketchup” and the “roasted garlic mayonnaise” and still come out with a really delish bison burger thanks to Ned Bell’s Smoked Cheddar Bison Burgers contribution. So despite the multi-stepped recipe in Vancouver Cooks 2 for Thomas Haas’ Pear Almond Tart with Black Currant Jam, which included ingredients like kalamansi pureé and four separate sub-recipes. I was determined to stick to the pear theme. Plus I had another half-dozen pears still in the fruit basket. [...]
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:39 pm
I am looking forward to buying a copy in the next few days and trying out the recipes. Thanks for the great information.
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