Books: Cooking & Preservation

Spices: a world of flavors.

They have transcended eras and borders, sometimes rare and often precious. Their unique aroma and flavor evoke memories of childhood, feasts, and travels. Simply pinch them between your thumb and forefinger to enhance your recipes, without adding any fat or salt.

This illustrated book offers you the opportunity to create your own spice garden, guiding you step by step towards a productive and abundant harvest.

You're probably familiar with ginger, black pepper, and paprika, but what about wasabi, tamarind, and annatto? These fact sheets will help you identify the edible parts of each plant. You'll also find botanical information, growing conditions, and various ways to incorporate spices into your diet.

Embark on a journey to discover this unique world of flavors!

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Author: Tasha Greer
Edition: Multimondes
Dimensions: 17.6 x 24.6 cm (7 x 9.75 in)
Page: 128
Publication date: February 22, 2023
ISBN: 9782897733117

Dehydrating food at home is a practical guide to transforming perishable goods into easier-to-store foods with delicious recipes!

Expert advice and step-by-step instructions ensure a perfect result, the first time… and every time.

Dehydrating Food at Home is a practical guide to transforming perishable goods—fruits, vegetables, meats, herbs, and more—into a range of nutritious delights. It guides you through the entire dehydration process and offers 100 delicious recipes, along with helpful tips.

Dehydrating food at home is one of the tastiest ways to stay healthy. The process is simple. A dehydrator removes water from food using a low temperature and a fan. Flavors meld and intensify, and all the nutritional qualities are preserved. This makes it easy to create satisfying snacks for a raw or gluten-free diet, or to monitor sugar intake. You can avoid artificial colors and flavors, giving you complete control over what you eat, and save money too. Dehydrating food at home makes it easy.

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Author: Keogh, Michelle
Edition: Broquet - Canadian book
Size: 20 x 22 cm
Softcover
Color photos and illustrations
Pages: 192
Publication date: May 31, 2022
ISBN: 9782896547272

Why grow them? They're healthy, eco-friendly, economical, and so enjoyable! Treat yourself to the appetizing microgreens of broccoli, radish, or sunflower. Discover those of sorrel or amaranth. Add delicious alfalfa sprouts to your menu.

In this unique reference work, Lili Michaud draws on her expertise, acquired through 40 years of experience, to make this very particular cultivation accessible. This book covers everything you need to know about germination and sprouting:

The choice of seeds, their acquisition and their storage;
The necessary equipment;
The methods, step by step;
A detailed directory of 51 seeds;
The harvest;
Conservation.

Whether you are starting out in this activity or looking to enhance your knowledge, this is the ideal book to maximize your harvests and make the most of these small greens with high nutritional value and incomparable flavors.

Browse

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Author: Lili Michaud
Edition: Multimondes
Dimensions: 16.51 x 20.32 cm (6.5 x 8 in)
Page: 200
Publication date: October 12, 2022
ISBN: 9782897733063

The best flower and food pairings are also offered through surprising recipes. Floral meals bring summer to your plate all year round!

Flowers aren't just decorative; they also possess culinary qualities and unparalleled health benefits. How about spring rolls with a thousand petals? Daylily bundles filled with shrimp mousse? Or perhaps you'd prefer roasted salmon with thyme blossoms, and to finish your meal, geranium flower cupcakes?

This guide is a treasure trove of tips to help you grow your own edible flowers for a healthy, pesticide-free harvest. It allows you to identify the edible parts of over 250 flowers that can be cultivated or harvested in our fields and forests.

The best flower and food pairings are also offered through surprising recipes. Floral meals bring summer to your plate all year round!

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from the book Flowers on Your Plate

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Author: Nathalie Beaudoin
Publisher: MultiMondes Publishing
Dimensions: x cm (x in)
Page: 274, color
Publication date: 2018-04
ISBN: 9782897730871
Language: French

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A fascinating culinary journey. This magnificent book, written by Caroline, Stéphanie, and Patricia Ho-Yi Wang, and featuring photographs by Virginie Gosselin, is brimming with information and recipes to help you better understand Asian vegetables. A true tribute to the land, good food, and roots.

While bok choy has carved out a prime spot on Western shelves, many other Asian vegetables remain relatively unknown. Yet, these are flavorful and nutritious vegetables that thrive in temperate, and even northern, climates!
Caroline, Stéphanie and Patricia Ho-Yi Wang, three sisters of Cantonese origin, have made it their mission to introduce and make people love these vegetables in a unique book, at the crossroads of gardening guide, cookbook and family story.

Organized around 15 Asian vegetables presented according to the seasons, the book offers organic growing and harvesting advice for both casual gardeners and aspiring market gardeners, as well as preservation techniques, nutritional information, and cooking methods. Around forty recipes, some developed by renowned chefs, are also included.

The Wang sisters also explore the world of Asian vegetables from a cultural perspective, tracing the place they have occupied in their own lives and in that of their family, part of which left China to emigrate to Madagascar before settling in Quebec.

You can read an excerpt by clicking here: Excerpt from Asian Vegetables .

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Authors: Caroline, Stéphanie and Patricia Ho-Yi Wang
Illustrated by Virginie Gosselin
Edition: Scent of Ink
Dimensions: 22 x 28 cm (8.5 x 11 in)
Page: 352, color
Publication date: October 2022
ISBN: 9782925101048

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Local and responsible healthy gastronomy

In *Le festin quotidien* (The Daily Feast), Yves Gagnon presents a healthy and responsible approach to food, offering a festive table rooted in local produce and seasonal ingredients. The two hundred easy-to-prepare recipes included reflect the author's passion for the plant kingdom and his commitment to a free and diverse, engaged and open-minded cuisine.

Author: Gagnon, Yves
Colloidal Editions
Category: Healthy Cooking
Publication date : 2016/04/19
Pages: 287
ISBN : 9782981027429
Language: French

FOREST is a reinvented identification guide that offers, in a single volume, all the keys to rediscovering the forgotten treasures of our wild landscape, a veritable larder. Practical and poetic, this bible of Quebec's edible plants contains over 100 beautifully illustrated entries and just as many inspiring recipes for preparing forest delicacies.

While local food is a hot topic and the "farm-to-table" concept is all the rage in the restaurant industry, the riches hidden within our boreal forest remain largely unknown. Two years ago, journalist Ariane Paré-Le Gal left the city with her family to start a new life in the heart of nature and join Gourmet Sauvage, a company founded by her father, Gérald Le Gal. Together, they transform forest products, offer foraging and cooking workshops, and contribute to education and the sharing of their knowledge through the media. Both practical and poetic, this comprehensive guide to wild edible plants contains over 150 illustrated entries, photos that invite you to immerse yourself in the forest, a foraging calendar, and insightful reflections on our relationship with food and nature.

Author: Ariane Paré-Le Gal
Publication date: May 2019
Publisher: Cardinal
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9782924646458