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Stuffed courgette

Stuffed courgette excerpted from Vegetarian Arab Cuisine by Ruth Salem Sader. Photography by João Farkas.

Vegetarian Arab Cuisine by Ruth Salem Sader

Vegetarian Arab Cuisine by Ruth Salem Sader is a culinary journey that brings the rich flavours of Middle Eastern cooking to the vegetarian table. As the granddaughter of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants, Sader was immersed in the aromatic world of Middle Eastern spices and dishes from a young age. Her personal transition to vegetarianism led her to explore and adapt traditional recipes, resulting in a collection that honours authentic flavours while catering to plant-based diets.

The cookbook offers a diverse array of recipes, encompassing pastes, yogurts, salads, stews, egg-based dishes, desserts, and beverages. Notable recipes include:

Lebanese Tabbouleh
Escarole in Olive Oil
Stuffed courgettes
Rice with Lentils
Fried Falafel Balls
Dried Apricot Candies with Almonds
Turkish Coffee with Cardamom

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Elotes

Elotes excerpted from Fast & Furious: The Official Cookbook: Salud, Mi Familia by Tres Dean and Joshua Hake.

Fast & Furious: The Official Cookbook: Salud, Mi Familia by Tres Dean and Joshua Hake

Now you can celebrate Fast! Furious! Food! Let Dominic Toretto tune up your home menu with 68 recipes inspired by the iconic Fast & Furious movies. From classic Toretto family BBQ to home versions of Chinese street food and more, relive iconic movie moments through there delicious dishes.

Race through the exciting locales, characters, and thrilling action of The Fast Saga in this collection of appetizers, main courses, desserts, and drinks that takes Fast & Furious enthusiasts on an inspired ride across the iconic film franchise. This unique book includes 68 recipes for delicious meals and handcrafted cocktails to share with family!

Fast & Furious: The Official Cookbook: Salud, Mi Familia includes step-by-step instructions, beautiful full-colour photography, helpful cooking and mixology tips, and recipes ranging from simple to advanced, making it perfect for home cooks of all skill levels. This book is an essential addition to every fan’s bar cart or bookshelf.

THE ONLY OFFICIAL FAST SAGA COOKBOOK: The first officially licensed Fast & Furious cookbook. Created in conjunction with NBC Universal (more…)

Ratatouille

Ratatouille excerpted from Pixar: The Official Cookbook by Tara Theoharis and S. T. Bende. Photography by Ted Thomas.

Pixar: The Official Cookbook by Tara Theoharis and S. T. Bende

Launch your kitchen “to infinity and beyond,” with this inspiring, high-quality cookbook featuring more than 75 delicious recipes inspired by beloved Pixar films!

Bring the vivid worlds of Pixar Animation Studios into your kitchen with this bespoke cookbook filled with delicious recipes inspired by nearly every beloved Pixar short and film, including Toy Story, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and more!

With more than 75 recipes, there is a yummy dish for everyone from young fans to experienced foodies to enjoy. Featuring stunning, in-world photography, suggestions for alternate ingredients, and tips and tricks from beloved characters, Pixar: The Official Cookbook is the perfect companion for chefs everywhere—because after all, “anyone can cook!”

Pixar: The Official Cookbook by Tara Theoharis and S. T. Bende is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

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Tomates à la Provençale

Tomates à la Provençale excerpted from Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur by Rebekah Peppler. Photography by Joann Pai.

Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur by Rebekah Peppler

The charms of Le Sud are many. The food culture is vibrant and season-focused; the tables are welcoming and convivial. In Le Sud, Rebekah Peppler distills these flavours, techniques, and spirit of the South of France into a never-before-seen collection of recipes, photographs, and stories.

The region—and its many culinary viewpoints—spans from the snowcapped Southern Alps in the north to the French Mediterranean in the south, the Rhône River to the west, and Italy along its eastern border. And like many regions where landscapes and people happily crash into each other, the food is dynamic and exciting. Here are recipes—from drinks to savory to sweet—that capture the modern tables and life lived around them in the south of France today.

Le Sud’s transporting photography expands our visual understanding of Provence outside solely lavender fields and endless summer holidays to showcase the geographically and culturally diverse region and its tables. As in À Table—her inspiring cookbook about dining the French way—Peppler’s recipes drip in home cook equity. (more…)

Greek Vegetable Tart

Greek Vegetable Tart excerpted from Cypriana: Vibrant recipes inspired by the food of Greece & Cyprus by Theo A. Michaels.

Cypriana: Vibrant recipes inspired by the food of Greece & Cyprus by Theo A. Michaels

A collection of over 80 recipes from popular TV personality and UK MasterChef alumni Theo Michaels; paying homage to his heritage through inspired by the flavours of Greece and Cyprus.

Theo’s delicious recipes evoke a sense of connection to nature, seasonality, abundance, and sociable eating. Fresh ingredients sing from the plate, from juicy watermelon and glossy kalamata olives, to fragrant oregano-roasted lamb and delicate vine-leaf-baked branzino. Meze features mouth-watering small plates for sharing from creamy whipped dips to meatballs. The sea is woven into Greek culture and seafood is a staple; enjoy the freshest fish and shellfish cooked simply and served with a squeeze of lemon juice. Meat is a huge part of the Greek diet—rabbit, goat, chicken, and lamb are the mainstay, with pork enjoyed at Easter celebrations. Cooking over charcoal is part of daily life.

The Cypriots use a large rotisserie famous for its souvla (long skewer), while mainland Greece make souvlaki and both charcoal grilled and oven-roasted dishes are included here. Greek yogurt, along with artisan cheeses (feta, halloumi etc.) can be eaten hot (saganaki) or shaved into vibrant salads and the traditions of ‘horta’ means there are plenty of vegetable dishes to enjoy. Finally, Greek desserts are often just a sweet note to savor with a bitter black coffee or come sundown you may prefer a Greek-inspired cocktail such as an Ouzo Sour. (more…)

Spicy Gochujang Tofu

Spicy Gochujang Tofu Excerpted from Savoring by Murielle Banackissa. Copyright © 2024 Murielle Banackissa. Photographs by Murielle Banackissa. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

Savoring: Meaningful Vegan Recipes from Across Oceans Hardcover by Murielle Banackissa

A collection of beautiful and inspiring plant-based recipes filled with the flavours of far-reaching influences. Savoring invites you to slow down and immerse yourself in vegan cooking—meal by meal, moment by moment.

There is something so satisfying about choosing to consciously slow down and create a dish without distractions: cherishing the time in the kitchen, celebrating the ingredients that give us life, and slowly transforming them into something magical. Murielle Banackissa—recipe developer, food stylist, and photographer—has spent hours, nights, whole weekends in her kitchen cooking for herself and for others. In Savoring, she shares a collection of her unique plant-based recipes that is both a celebration of those special moments found in cooking (grilling flavour into peaches to top weekend waffles, sitting with mushrooms while they caramelize) and an interweaving of her different cultural influences—from her upbringing in the Republic of Congo, to her mother’s Russian and Ukrainian heritage recipes, and her family’s immigration to Montreal. (more…)

Sumac-Roasted Eggplant with Maple Tahini Drizzle

Plant Magic by Desiree Nielsen. Copyright © 2024 Desiree Nielsen. Photography and illustrations by Gabriel Cabrera. Published by Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

In Plant Magic, Desiree shares approachable ways to incorporate plants into your meals, along with how to dial up your pantry and tricks for coaxing the best out of simple foods like beans, grains, and vegetables. Plant-based cooking doesn’t have to be expensive, time consuming, or restrictive.

Whether you’re craving morning things, stuff on bread, one pot (or pan) dishes, salads, tasty noodles, really good sweets, or everyday tonics and potions, Plant Magic makes cooking and eating joyful. Full of tips and tricks, stories and easy ingredient swap-outs, Desiree shares delicious recipes for some of your favourite dishes that just happen to be plant-based. Celebrate the joy and pleasure of eating well and enjoying nourishing food.

Get ready to make Earl Grey Breakfast Loaf; An Easy, Cozy Lasagna; Lemony Chickpea and Potato Stew; Cumin Lime Black Bean Burgers; Sunshine Panzanella; Black Olive and Za’atar Focaccia; Tempeh Nachos; Rocky Road Blender Brownies; Carrot Cake with Cashew Frosting; and Hibiscus Lemonade.

Featuring gorgeous photography throughout, Plant Magic shows you just how delicious plant-based food can be and that sometimes, healthy eating looks like a kale salad and sometimes, it looks like cake. (more…)

Fennel & citrus salad with smoky green onion dressing

Fennel & citrus salad with smoky green onion dressing excerpted from Better Cooking by Alice Zaslavsky. Copyright © 2024 Alice Zaslavsky. Photographs by Ben Dearnley. Published by Appetite an imprint of Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

Let Alice Zaslavsky, international bestselling author of the James Beard Book Awards nominee, In Praise of Veg, lead you on a journey to confident, intuitive cooking — because if you already enjoy the eating part, you have everything it takes to get better at the cooking part too. This vibrant kitchen manual contains stacks of vegetable-forward recipes that you’ll want to cook on a weekly basis and handy kitchen skills and thrills, to help build the foundations for a lifetime of better cooking. With Better Cooking there’s no pressure to be a perfect cook, but everyone can aspire to be a better cook, and therein lies the fun.

To help all cooks — from beginner to experienced — become better cooks, every recipe, tip and trick acts as another stepping stone to finding joy and confidence in the kitchen. Inside, you’ll find chapters including:

• Slapdash: really outstanding stuff simply thrown together

• On Autopilot: your new go-tos for quick and easy weeknight meals (more…)

Traditional Chickpea Falafel Pockets

Traditional Chickpea Falafel Pockets excerpted from Falafel: Delicious recipes for Middle Eastern-style patties, plus sauces, pickles, salads and breads by Dunja Gulin.

Falafel: Delicious recipes for Middle Eastern-style patties, plus sauces, pickles, salads and breads by Dunja Gulin

Falafel are deep-fried balls or patties of chickpea or fava beans, with added herbs, spices, onion, garlic and are widely eaten across the Middle East. While the style varies from region to region, they are usually eaten in a wrap or pitta with salad, tahini, pickles, and a spicy sauce.

In North America, prior to the 70s, falafel was found only in Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish neighbourhoods and restaurants. Today, the dish is a common and popular street food in many cities throughout America. It’s not hard to see why: they also fall into that wondrous overlapping category of being crave-worthy and satisfying, as well as nutritious and fairly low in fat. What’s more, they are a brilliant source of protein for those who don’t eat meat. They are also rich in fiber, and often made with added vegetables, nuts and seeds, or grains, as are many of the delicious recipes in this book.

Try the Fennel & Lemon Scented Falafel or Juicy Brown Rice Faux-lafel. Find Crunchy Sesame Falafel or Falafel Croquettes or enjoy snacks such as tasty Mediterranean Seed Falafel, all packed with good stuff, and very low fat. Whip up a drizzle such as Home-made Tahini Sauce as the perfect complement to your hot, freshly cooked patties. Finally, make tangy quick pickles, crisp herby salads, and easy flatbreads so you can serve your freshly cooked falafel with all the trimmings and enjoy it as its best. (more…)

Spicy Noodle Soup

Spicy Noodle Soup excerpted from Vegan Vietnamese: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Enjoy Every Day by Helen Le. Photography by Detas Studio

Vegan Vietnamese: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Enjoy Every Day by Helen Le

Learn how to make 70 classic dishes from every region of Vietnam—vegan-style—from Helen Le, the creator of the most popular Vietnamese cooking channel on YouTube, Helen’s Recipes!

Whether you’re vegan, plant-based, vegetarian, or just looking to eat less meat, Vegan Vietnamese is for you. Let Helen Le guide you through seventy satisfying, traditional recipes for tasty plant-based versions of popular Vietnamese condiments, salads, rolls, soups, noodles, rice dishes, dumplings, desserts, and more, including:

Pho
Bánh Mì
Crispy Spring Rolls
Rice Pyramid Dumplings
Spicy Tofu
Thick Noodle Soup
Broken Rice Plate
Three-Color Sticky Rice
Banana Cake with Raisins
Roasted Garlic Chili Peanuts
Vegan Fish Sauce

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