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Don's Christmas Gift Book Selections

Don's cookbook gift rules:

  1. Make sure you're matching the degree of recipe difficulty in the book to the ability of the cook. Don't buy a book that calls upon skills and methods the cook doesn't have, like boning a quail, or making puff pastry from scratch.
  2. If you live in an area that doesn't have many shops carrying specialty ingredients, there's not much point getting someone a book which calls for a lot of them.
  3. Always check the photos. They tell you how appetizing the recipes can look, and whether it's something you can visualize on a dinner plate. Books WITHOUT photos generally cost less, so you need to look a little more carefully at the ingredient list and recipe instructions to see if it's a good fit.

The Big Book of Breakfast
Maryana Vollstedt
Chronicle Books - $32.95

Meena Pathak's Flavours of India
Meena Pathak
Whitecap Books - $19.95

Hot Sour Salty Sweet
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Random House Canada - $60.00

The Pleasures of Slow Food
Corby Kummer
Chronicle Books - $65

Modern Classics Book 1
Donna Hay
William Morrow - $34.95

Simply Bishop's
John Bishop and Dennis Green
Douglas and McIntyre - $45.00

Rebar, Modern Food Cookbook
Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz
Big Ideas Publishing - $29.95

Happy Days with the Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver
Little, Brown & Co. - $49.95

Forever Summer
Nigella Lawson
Knopf Canada - $55.00


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