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Whitecap Books Spring 2014 Backlist MUSSELS PREPARING, COOKING and ENJOYING a SENSATIONAL SEAFOOD whitecap books spring 2014 backlist MUSSELS PREPARING, COOKING AND ENJOYING A SENSATIONAL SEAFOOD by Chef Alain Bossé and Linda Duncan Of related interest The story of Mussels starts with “the humble Features/why buy mussel, a shellfish so unassuming that the impact • Chef Alain is well known in the Atlantic Canadian it had on the two of us was quite unexpected,” as food community and has over 7,000 fans on his the authors—the “Kilted Chef” Alain Bossé and Facebook page his good friend “Mussel Mama” Linda Duncan— • Atlantic Canada has become known worldwide of this book say. When these two met, they for its signature blue mussels discovered they shared an identical passion: to get • The book applies to mussels bought anywhere, the word about this sensational seafood out to as not just in Atlantic Canada many people as possible, as quickly as possible. HOW TO MAKE This cookbook, Mussels, is the satisfying result. It LOVE TO A LOBSTER includes 77 recipes for using mussels in every type by Marjorie Harris and Peter Taylor of dish, from where you would expect them—in 978-1-77050-183-6 appetizers, salads and mains—to where they are $19.95 a delightful, whimsical surprise—in pickles, pies and cocktails. Mussel Strudel, anyone? Mussels is for anyone who is passionate about mussels and looking for new ways to cook and eat them. This mighty mollusc has long been a staple on restaurant menus but many people still hesitate to cook mussels at home. This book shows how easy it is to choose, store and cook this healthy and tasty seafood. Everyone who wants to FLAVOURS OF PRINCE can now cook mussels with confidence. EDWARD ISLAND Flex your mussels with recipes like: by Jeff McCourt, Allan • Summer Fig and Mussel Salad Chef Alain Bossé, the Kilted Chef, is Atlantic Williams and Austin Clement 978-1-77050-009-9 • Tacos with Tequila-Flavoured Mussels and Canada’s culinary ambassador. He is the president $39.95 Black Bean Salsa of Alain Bossé Consulting Ltd, the food editor for • Mussel, Bacon and Corn Chowder Saltscapes Magazine and the past president of • Mussel Mac ’n’ Cheese Taste of Nova Scotia. He is currently on the board • Mussel Risotto of directors for Taste Nova Scotia, and is a recipe creator and cookbook reviewer. Chef Alain resides Excerpt So you thought there was only one way in Breashore, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. to eat your mussels . Well, here are a few fun ways to eat or treat your mussels: Traditional: Just Linda Duncan is a culinary adventurer and the SUSHI use your fingers to pull the mussel meat out of the founder of Results Management. She has been the by Vicki Liley 978-1-55285-741-0 shell. There is something wonderful about licking executive director of the Mussel Industry Council $24.95 the juice off your fingers. For those who don’t like and the executive director of the PEI Aquaculture getting their fingers dirty, a fork works well to dig Association. She sits on the board of several out the mussel meat. Mussel ring: As you eat each Canadian national and regional culinary, seafood mussel, place the shell inside your last mussel shell and aquaculture organizations, including the PEI Learn to cook mussels like a professional chef to form a ring. Make mussel lines—pick a pattern Culinary Alliance, the PEI International Shellfish and see who can make the largest circle. Festival and Innovation PEI. Linda resides in Mussel spork: Break your mussel shell into two Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. ISBN 978-1-77050-214-7 Canadian Distribution Publicity pieces. Grab your fork and hold it upright. Take the 8.25 x 9.5 w 208 pages FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE WHITECAP BOOKS C FOOD bottom shell, which has a deeper cup, and hook it $29.95 w paperback with flaps 905-477-9700 Jeffrey Bryan by Robert Clark onto the tongs on the end of your fork. Now use 77 recipes w 90 photographs 1-800-387-9776 604-681-6181 x201 and Harry Kambolis [email protected] [email protected] 978-1-77050-004-4 your mussel spoon to slurp up all the broth. Marketing full colour throughout w index $40.00 rights: world Publicity Web marketing U.S. Distribution National print and radio Website available in Canada March 2014 MIDPOINT TRADE BOOKS media campaign www.kiltedchef.ca available in the U.S. April 2014 Live TV interviews in the Social networking Antonio Lorenzo Canadian Maritimes Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest 212-727-0190 Cooking demos and classes Blogger media campaign whitecap | www.whitecap.ca [email protected] whitecap books | cooking and food | spring 2014 | 3 FLEX APPEAL A VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK FOR FAMILIES WITH MEAT-EATERS by Pat Crocker and Nettie Cronish By the same authors Flex Appeal is all about balancing our ethics with Features/why buy our tastebuds, and our vegetarian friends with • A recent study funded by Linda McCartney our meat-eating ones. Choosing to reduce your Foods suggests that flexitarianism (or semi- meat intake, and to buy organic vegetables, vegetarianism) is on the rise free-range chickens and animals raised humanely • Meat-Free Mondays (one day without eating and without drugs on small, mixed-crop farms meat a week) has been endorsed by celebrities are all ethical alternatives to a strict vegan diet. such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz Flex Appeal shows you how to make these choices • This book appeals to vegetarians, vegans, for your family, and to ease even the staunchest pollotarians and pescatarians meat-and-potatoes eater into healthier and more • Canada’s Food Guide recommends that meat (or EVERYDAY FLEXITARIAN sustainable eating—without asking them to give meat substitutes) are part of daily eating. This 978-1-77050-021-1 $29.95 up meat. book provides options for both Flex Appeal is part vegetarian cookbook and Of related interest part meat mastery. Most of the meals in the book have a “flex appeal” option—they’re a delicious vegetarian base with a suggested meat to add to the dish or on the side. Pat and Nettie have gone through their recipe Rolodex to supply over 100 new and fresh ideas, most of which can be prepared in less than an hour. With many helpful tips—including tips on roasting chicken, fish and beef—this is a necessary book for anyone cooking for a family THE ALL-NEW that has multiple tastes and needs. With Flex VEGETARIAN PASSPORT by Linda Woolven Appeal, dinner for four is now a snap. 978-1-770580-179-9 Make sure your next meal has Flex Appeal Pat Crocker is a culinary herbalist with a serious $32.95 with recipes like: commitment to sustainable and humane food. She • Dilled Chevre Pops, with shrimp flex appeal is a contributing editor of the Herb Companion • Pinto Bean and Corn Salsa Tacos, with fish magazine. She is the bestselling and international flex appeal award–winning author of The Vegan Cook’s Bible, • Spiced Papardelle Noodles with Feta The Juicing Bible, The Healing Herbs Cookbook • Zucchini Mushroom Moussaka, with lamb and The Yogurt Bible. Pat lives in Neustadt, flex appeal Ontario, with her husband, Gary. • Red Chili Chocolate Muffins Nettie Cronish is a vegetarian chef, culinary THE VEGETARIAN’S Excerpt The aim of this book is to give you instructor and cookbook author. For the past 25 COMPLETE QUINOA strategies for cooking and eating in the ways that years, she has been teaching at supermarkets, COOKBOOK community colleges and gourmet and health food Edited by Mairlyn Smith you already know are the healthiest—using high- 978-1-77050-097-6 quality plant-based ingredients, less meat and stores. She works with dieticians, and develops and $29.95 Pleasing the whole family doesn’t have to be complicated fewer dairy products. Almost all of the recipes in tests recipes for the business sector. She is chair of this book can be prepared in under an hour and the Womens Culinary network and a board member the ingredients are easily found, sometimes in the of Fair Trade Canada. Nettie lives in Toronto with her husband and three children. ISBN 978-1-77050-188-1 Canadian Distribution Publicity freezer and even, sometimes, in a package, jar 8.5 x 11 w 224 pages FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE WHITECAP BOOKS or can. They have been family- and friend-tested $29.95 w paperback with flaps 905-477-9700 Jeffrey Bryan and we know that they have a broad appeal while being easy on the cook. “Honest and healthy” 117 recipes w 120 photographs 1-800-387-9776 604-681-6181 x201 Marketing [email protected] [email protected] and “pure and simple”—these were the principles full colour throughout w index we followed while we created what we think are Publicity Web marketing rights: world U.S. Distribution National print and radio Website available in Canada April 2014 SPILLING THE BEANS exceptional, delicious, flexible dishes. media campaign www.nettiecronish.com MIDPOINT TRADE BOOKS by Julie Van Rosendaal Live TV interviews in Toronto www.patcrocker.com available in the U.S. May 2014 Antonio Lorenzo and Sue Duncan Cooking demos and classes Social networking Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest 212-727-0190 978-1-77050-041-9 $29.95 Blogger media campaign whitecap | www.whitecap.ca [email protected] whitecap books | cooking and food | spring 2014 | 5 BROCCOLI, LOVE AND DARK CHOCOLATE BECAUSE FOOD, LOVE AND LIFE SHOULD BE DELICIOUS! by Liz Pearson, RD By the same author Liz Pearson, author of several upbeat and Features/why buy inspirational cookbooks, including the bestselling • Liz Pearson is an award-winning and bestselling Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health and The cookbook author as well as a media personality Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan is back, with a new • Simple, healthy and totally delicious recipes are book featuring her signature mix of delicious, always in style extra-healthy recipes and heartfelt life lessons • Each recipe includes a life lesson for living a that inspire.
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