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Cover of cookbook, ALICE HUNTER'S NORTH COUNTRY COOKBOOK, with an inset photograph of Alice Hunter preparing a salad. A larger photograph shows an ulu resting on an animal fur Source

 

Page 34 of cookbook, ALICE HUNTER'S NORTH COUNTRY COOKBOOK, with three recipes for cooking grouse Source

 

Page 35 of cookbook, ALICE HUNTER'S NORTH COUNTRY COOKBOOK, with a text on salt and freshwater fish and a recipe for Arctic Char Loaf Source

Alice Hunter. Alice Hunter's North Country Cookbook. Yellowknife: Outcrop, 1986

"As a young girl growing up on the Arctic Coast, I did not fully appreciate the abundance and variety of wild foods that were available to us. I always took it for granted that the seasons provided wild greens and berries, ducks and geese, muskrats and caribou" (p. iii).

Cover of cookbook, LES GRANDES DAMES DE LA CUISINE AU QUÉBEC, volume 2, with a photograph of Richard Bizier in a chef's hat holding a soup tureen Source

 

Richard Bizier. Les grandes dames de la cuisine au Québec. Vol. 2. Montréal: La Presse, 1986

In two volumes of essays and recipes, Bizier gives a short descriptive biography of 16 of Quebec's most famous female chefs, along with a representative sample of their favourite recipes.

Cover of cookbook, A TASTE OF CALGARY: RECIPES FROM THE CHEFS OF CANADA'S SURPRISING STAMPEDE CITY, with a photograph of the Calgary skyline at night Source

 

Douglas Leighton. A Taste of Calgary: Recipes from the Chefs of Canada's Surprising Stampede City. Banff, Alta.: Taste of Pub., 1986

A short history of Calgary and recipes from its modern-day chefs make this attractive book an unusual contribution.

Cover of cookbook, FOR THE LOVE OF COD, with a colour illustration of a fisherman holding up his catch Source

 

Joan McConnell-Over. For the Love of Cod: The Newfoundland Codfish Cookbook. St. John's: Creative, 1989

"Newfoundland has devised more ways for cooking cod than probably any other place in the world" (p. i).


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