Shawn and Simon have already given their ideas for cheap holiday gifts… Now that we are all on the home stretch, maybe it’s time to find that tome for a loved one who loves to cook! Lots of recomendations for beginners, intermediates and people who have lost their minds and want to bake. Happy Holidays everyone!!!
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Music by John Palmer
Show notes and Shout Outs:
- Jamie’s Dinners by Jamie Oliver (For the beginner!)
- The three-book series by Jeffery Alford and Naimoi Duguid (For the Coffee Table!)
- Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli (For the Intermediate with passion!)
- The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown (for the aspiring baker!)
- RIPE Cookbook by Ann Kask which proceeds go to Diabetes Canada (featuring yours truly!)
- Rebar, Modern Food Cookbook by Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz
- Tartine by Chad Robertson
- Ready for Dessert by David Leibovitz
- Baked, New Frontiers in Baking By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
- My Pokemon Cookbook By Victoria Rosenthal
- And the necronom nom nom
- Bonus Mentions: Flavour Bible By Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg and Anything by Hank Shaw
More Cookbooks!!!!
“What’s really going to make you unique sometimes is the way your brain is different than anyone else’s brain who ever existed on the planet. That’s valuable right there. Write down what comes out of the brain… And sometime an idea isn’t good until the second half arrives later.”
Borscht is the quintessential Ukrainian (not Russian, although they have also adopted it as their own) soup/stew. The recipe for it changes from country to country, village to village, grandma, to well… you get the idea. It’s pretty amorphous, and delicious! The basic recipe calls for various root vegetables stewed in broth with the occasional addition of sour cream or vinegar. It is served hot, or sometimes cold, and always with dark, hard bread and dill. It’s dank stuff… If you want an apt and slightly creepy metaphor: it’s like suckling on the roots of the earth itself. 
Just in time to follow the turkey to the table is… ahhhh who am I kidding, Canadian Thanksgiving was a week ago. No problem, a golden not-to-sweet potato pie is a welcome finish to any meal during these rapidly darkening days of October.