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Designed with the home cook in mind, this exciting anthology celebrates a vibrant culinary scene with dishes including Harold in the Heights' shrimp and grits, Harlem Road BBQ's savory lamb chops, The Dunlavy's chocolate-covered cherry pie with stout, and so much more.

BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Chef Robertson's first book was a big success for a first-time author, going into three printings so far and selling 15,000 copies in North America. This book has a different take on his cuisine -- more family- oriented comfort food -- and makes a great complement to the first volume which focused more on what he teaches at his popular Vancouver cooking school.ACCESSIBLE AND TESTED RECIPES: Like the recipes in the first book, these are tried and tested, refined and perfected. While easy, they are filled with creativity and wonderful flavor combinations. This is really delicious food!SOCIAL: To David, cooking is a social activity and the book focuses on the enjoyment of cooking for, and with, family and friends.VARIETY: Like his cooking classes the recipes in the book are highly varied in style and substance. The styles range from Thai, French, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Swedish, Moroccan, Japanese, Greek and more. It includes wide variety of seafoods, meats and poultry, and and wonderfully flavourful plant-based dishes. Cooks will love that Gather has many of the desserts that The Dirty Apron deli is famous for, and in addition includes instructions on how to make the recipes vegan or gluten-free.GREAT PEOPLE: Not only is he a tremendously talented chef, David Robertson and his wife Sara, are great people. Known as two of the kindest people in the business, they devote a lot of their time volunteering with underprivileged kids to teach them the joy of cooking, of working with others and being of service to their community.

The East Bay includes Oakland, the most ethnically diverse population in the nation; Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement; the island of Alameda with its artisan breweries, wineries, and distilleries; and the Livermore Valley, one of California's oldest winemaking regions. East Bay Cooks is an impressive collection of 80 signature dishes from 40 leading restaurants.

RICH FOOD CULTURE: Calgary may have started off as a cow town, but it has grown into a sophisticated, multicultural city with people from around the world (their current mayor was the first Muslim mayor of a major North American city). Their food scene is really good and has great support in the community.U.S. Connections: Calgary has many connections to Texas and other oil industry states, and the Canadian offices of most of the leading industry corporations are located in Calgary. There are a lot of ex-Calgarians living in the U.S. Calgary combines various other cultures as a city that is a center for agriculture, ranching, winter sports and Rocky Mountain activities of all kinds.

HOT MAKERS SCENE: Toronto has a thriving makers culture and this unique book is the first to really focus on it. The team that brought these makers together (Red Box Creative) is really connected with that community and was able to get some great people to join the book project. It is a very good cross-section of that world in the city of Toronto and a great book for design aficionados anywhere.WIDE VARIETY: There is a broad range of creations on display in Toronto Makes, from jewellery, clothing, and floral arrangements to beer and chocolate and donuts. It's an eclectic view that will appeal to many tastes. The main commonality is the desire of each maker to express themselves through their creations and to strive for excellence in what they do.GREAT PRODUCTION: The photography and styling are fabulous and the book design sophisticated and modern -- it will be a beautiful coffee-table book as well as a great guide to the wonderful talent that exists in the city.BUSINESS OF MAKERS: This is not just a survey of makers but also a guide on how to succeed at being one. For those who aspire to create beautiful objects, products or foods and make a living at it, this book will show how it's done.

RECIPES FROM A GREAT DESTINATION: Jana's Bake Shop is the leading bakery on Salt Spring Island, an idyllic retreat in the Salish Sea between Vancouver and Victoria, BC, very popular with Americans, including the Hollywood set. In addition to many fine farms there are plenty of Hamptons-like summer homes for the rich and famous, side-by-side with homesteads from the sixties and seventies counter-culture. Jana makes great use of the local ingredients from Salt Spring's gentle micro-climateSWEET ENOUGH: But not TOO sweet. Jana believes that you don't need to overdue it with the sugar and her recipes try to keep a good balance between sweet and tart. She is especially known for her wonderful pies (as Meg Tilly attests to on the cover).>Jana was trained at the renowned George Brown College in Toronto, Canada's premier culinary institute and one of the main sources of its greatest chefs.BEAUTIFUL PACKAGE: This book is designed by award-winning book designer, Jessica Sullivan, one of the best in the country (recent winner of Best Book Design from Applied Arts Magazine for Lure: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast)

Laurent Amiot naît à Québec en 1764, et au terme d'un premier apprentissage séjourne à Paris durant cinq ans, juste avant la Révolution française, afin de parfaire sa formation artistique. Il revient dans sa ville natale au printemps 1787, au fait des dernières tendances stylistiques européennes, maîtrisant l'art de la composition et détenteur d'une technique solide. Il ouvre un atelier dans la vieille ville dès l'année suivante, inaugurant une pratique féconde qui s'étend sur cinq décennies. Avec Laurent Amiot, l'orfèvre se redéfinit d'artisan à artiste : l'orfèvrerie est dorénavant un art.Ce catalogue illustré, renfermant les quelque 80 oeuvres exposées, est publié à l'occasion de la présentation de la première rétrospective consacrée à l'artiste. Trois chapitres valorisent le rôle fondamental de la contribution d'Amiot au développement de l'art au Canada. Les deux premiers scrutent sa formation, sa pratique, le fonctionnement de l'atelier, le rôle des collaborateurs et la dynamique avec les mécènes. Le troisième analyse l'oeuvre, tentant de faire progresser la connaissance intime de la société qui l'a vu éclore. Tour à tour, le regard se porte sur l'orfèvrerie cultuelle, domestique et commémorative, expressions qu'Amiot a contribué à définir brillamment. Une bibliographie et un index complètent l'ouvrage.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from May 11 to Septeber 23, 2018.

With the inauguration of the Ottawa Art Gallery's new building in the fall of 2017, the exhibition Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous memes / We'll all become stories launches as the definitive showcase of the artistic practices of the Ottawa Valley and the Outaouais region. This gorgeous companion catalogue draws together a broad selection of curators, artists, writers, art historians and community members to generate the most extensive and multilayered exploration of the region's art history and contemporary production to date.We'll all become stories provides an authoritative platform for not only the artistic practices of the national capital region, but also the geography, commerce, institutions and individuals that have shaped this cultural production. The project fills an information gap by addressing the historical and contemporary details of this currently under-researched and under-documented art scene. It captures the ever-changing perspectives of artists by situating the region's visual culture in relation to its multiple histories. While this story certainly considers ideas that have galvanized the area's artists since Confederation, it also explores the substantial artistic contributions of the Indigenous peoples of this region-namely the Anishinabe First Nations-both before and after this colonial marker. As such, the story is told from diverse perspectives, inclusive to the interests and histories of those who are or have been marginalized or hidden from view. Featuring 30 thematic sections written by guest authors as well as the exhibition curators (Rebecca Basciano, Jim Burant, Michelle Gewurtz and Catherine Sinclair), We'll all become stories contains an illustrated chronological timeline and over 150 stunning colour images of works across multiple media including paintings, prints, textiles, photography, fine craft, film, performance and conceptual installations. This bilingual English and French volume offers some Anishinabeg translation and provides a unique lens through which to view the nation's capital in this 150th year since Confederation. A lush and unprecedented tome, it is sure to be treasured by readers across the nation.

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our coming of age as a modern, bilingual, bicultural nation-a place where anyone from any culture could thrive. But beneath the applause and the cheerful music was a darker note. In his public address at the festivities, Chief Dan George lamented what Canada's centennial did not celebrate: the colonization and marginalization of Indigenous peoples who lived on these "good lands." Now in the year of Canada's 150th birthday, we honour a new understanding of our past. We have begun-at long last-to share in a process of national reconciliation and to come together to reimagine our contribution to a global future.Artists give form and meaning to both the land and the invisible landscape of the spirit, both the past and the future. The works of Canada's artists-both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, historical and contemporary-invite us to see our country and our place within it with new eyes. This book celebrates their visions, as well as the good lands we have shared and shaped for millennia that, in turn, have shaped us.

The Ash K. Prakash Collection of works by James W. Morrice offers an exciting journey into the personal and artistic explorations of the first Canadian painter who established an enviable career as an artist in Paris by the turn of the twentieth century. While living abroad for the rest of his life, Morrice also played a vital role in advancing modern artistic trends at the turn of the twentieth century in Canada. The in-depth collection of works will feature just over three decades of collecting by Mr. A.K. Prakash, and will weave the intricate story of the artist through the story of the collector and his ability to refine his collection and sustain his passion for the artist and his art.

The many and varied threads of Canada's national life come together in its capital region. Where the Rideau River flows into the Ottawa River, an Algonquin community was visited by French explorers and settled by British colonists. The town grew into a city, spilled over a provincial border, and now represents Canada to the world.Ottawa is a seat of government and has all the official edifices to show for it. But as Andrew Waldron shows you in Exploring the Capital, it's a lot more than that. Follow the twelve guided-tours covering all corners of the region in Ontario and Quebec and you'll encounter homes and schools, cultural sites and green spaces, houses of worship and shrines to commerce. Early houses, humble or magnificent, from the era of the lumber barons can be found steps away from the latest in sleek condominiums and office towers built for sustainability. Waldron takes you behind the doors of more than 390 diverse structures to learn who made them, how, and why.Exploring the Capital is for architectural experts and amateurs, and for residents and visitors alike. Visit Ottawa's landmarks and neighbourhoods through its stories, maps, and photographs, and learn how great design and engineering turn landscapes into cityscapes.

POPULAR SUBJECT: The practice of Calligraphy continues to interest millions of people, but most books are about "how-to" and don't provide a background to the cultural significance and origins of this beautiful form of communication.BROAD SCOPE: Traces of Words covers the whole of Asia, featuring Japanese, Chinese, Islamic and Indian calligraphy, all communities that have contributed greatly to the Canadian mosaic.BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: As a part of the Museum of Anthropology's series this book has a gorgeous design and the highest production values.EXHIBITION: Though this book accompanies an exhibition at Vancouver's renowned Museum of Anthropology in the summer of 2017, this book is intended to stand on its own merits -- it is not an "exhibition catalogue", but a book for the non-expert on the world of calligraphy and it can be enjoyed with or without seeing the exhibition

The stunning masterworks of one of North America's greatest luthiers and inlay artists.William (Grit) Laskin is a master guitarmaker, a musician and songwriter, an artist and a storyteller. For more than forty-five years, he’s been hand-building guitars for such luminaries as Stan Rogers, Jesse Cook, Rik Emmett, and k.d. lang, inlaying many of these instruments with his personalized designs. No two are alike, and their starting points are as varied as the people who play them.Grand Complications is the story behind the story of fifty of these original designs from 2003 to the present. It is a look inside Laskin’s creative process—how he teases out a client’s interests and intentions, how he develops and refines his ideas, and how he brings them to life in his mind and on paper.From “Short Stories” that fill only the headstock of a guitar to full narratives that run the length of the neck, each inspired design is the product of research, deep thinking, and a little alchemy. Featured here are projects ranging from an homage to John Lennon to a paean to humpback whales to a tribute to the fall of the Berlin Wall.A member of the Order of Canada, winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence (Canada’s most prestigious craft award), and founder of Borealis Records, Laskin is a true craftsman and his insights make fascinating reading for lovers of art, music—and the creative process.

John Cherrington and his seventy-four year old walking companion set out one fine morning in May to traverse the only English footpath that cuts south through the rural heart of the country, a formidable path called the Macmillan Way. Cherringtons walking partner is Karl Yzerman, an irascible bull of the woods, a full twenty years his senior and the perfect foil to the wry and self-deprecating author. Their journey begins at Boston on the Wash and takes them through areas of outstanding beauty such as the Cotswolds, Somerset, and Dorset, all the way to Chesil Beach. Their ultimate destination is Cadbury Castle, a hillfort that many archeologists believe to be the likely location of King Arthurs legendary centre of operations in the late 5th century when heor some other prominent British warrior chieftainmade his last stand against the Saxons. Along the way the unlikely duo experiences many adventures, including a serious crime scene, a bull attack, several ghosts, a brothel, and the English themselves. On virtually every page of the book the historical merges with the magic of the footpath, with Cherrington making astute, often humorous observations on the social, cultural and culinary mores of the English, all from a very North American perspective.

Arthur Erickson was one of the 20th century’s premier architects, but little has been written about the man who designed the interiors of Erickson’s award-winning buildings, whom everyone in the business simply called “Francisco”. A decade before his death, Erickson wrote this manuscript to pay tribute to Kripacz and to tell the world of the importance of Francisco’s creations. With stunning images from some of greatest photographers of the day, such as Yousuf Karsh, this book looks at Erickson’s key projects and the crucial contributions made by Kripacz to their feel and glamour. It includes Erickson’s extended commentary on some of his most famous architectural projects from the 1970’s through the 1990s, including Roy Thomson Hall, the Eppich Houses, Napp Laboratories, and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., all of which had stunning interior designs and furniture by Kripacz. As this book goes to press, the Erickson and Kripacz-designed furniture line, the Erickson Design Collection, is being brought into manufacture, with many items becoming available for the first time.Francisco Kripacz: Interior Design is a beautiful legacy to the working partnership of a charismatic and passionate artistic duo — a last testament from a remarkable architect to the man who shared in his greatest achievements.

A unique collection spanning two hundred years of British Columbia’s remarkable visual art.Art is a window into culture and history, and there is no collection that portrays the astonishing breadth of British Columbia’s art from the eighteenth century to the present as superbly as the one at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. This beautiful book brings together in a single volume many highlights from the museum’s permanent galleries. Among the early works are exquisitely produced First Nations masks, many of them repatriated to British Columbia from collections around the world. Also of significant interest are a wide selection of works by Emily Carr and E. J. Hughes that span their entire careers, as well as some of the most vivid depictions of the regional landscape by Frederick Varley and William Weston.Stunning examples of modernism by Lawren Harris and B. C. Binning presage images by innovative practitioners such as Jack Shadbolt, Toni Onley, Gordon Smith and Claude Breeze. And most familiar to contemporary audiences are innovative works by photo-conceptual artists such as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Stephen Waddell and career-defining contemporary art by First Nations artists such as Bill Reid, Robert Davidson, Beau Dick, Brian Jungen, Sonny Assu and Marianne Nicolson. Interviews with John and Patricia Patkau, the award-winning architects of the building, and art collector and philanthropist Michael Audain set the works in context. This is the definitive guide not only to the museum but to the history of art in British Columbia.

Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist’s stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events that she documents for a network of like-minded artists around the world. It is this vibrant community of creative individuals that has both fueled her work and embraced it, and it is their long history of communicating by mail—welcoming anyone interested in participating—that has laid the groundwork for today’s social media networks.Anna Banana is a compelling retrospective of the artist’s work and her place in art history. Michelle Jacques traces Banana’s evolution from Anne Long to conceptual artist Anna Banana and the breadth of her oeuvre. Craig Saper contemplates the paradox that an artist of her stature could remain virtually unknown while subverting mainstream art and culture so relentlessly and so humorously for so long. Anne Thurmann-Jajes relates the value of the Banana Rag and other publications in publicizing the artist’s actions and maintaining contact with other artists. And Edward M. Goméz highlights the importance of Banana’s fun, frank and frequently experimental art in engaging new audiences and bridging the historic anti-art practices of Dada and Fluxus and today’s contemporary practices. Like the artist herself, this remarkable book will enlighten, engage and surprise.

Popular art expresses the passion and verve emanating from the rich imagination and the social, political and religious experiences of its creators. In Portugal, this art of the people also conveys deeply seated, idealistic views of national identity, history and character.Much Portuguese popular art focuses on three amorphous places: Heaven (the world of the saints, grace and salvation); Hell (the domain of the Devil, dystopia, annoyance and mischief); and Somewhere In Between (a country called Portugal whose denizens grapple with good and evil every day). Popular art evokes and gives form to history, contemporary events, authorized and popular religious beliefs and the push and pull between Portugal’s powerful but ambiguous relations with the sea and land.Heaven, Hell and Somewhere in Between combines an in-depth analysis of Portuguese popular art and culture with stunning photographs of 40 artworks—ceramics, masks, puppets—and another 60 supporting images, from medieval frescoes and roadside icons to graffiti and images of carnival performers and artisans at work in their studios. Complex, contemporary, theatrical, political and often controversial, this is the theatre of a nation, where official ideologies collide with homegrown art and culture and spew forth deeply felt emotions, from ecstasy and transcendence to suffering and penitence.

Produced in celebration of White Spot’s 85th anniversary, The White Spot Cookbook is an engaging, visually rich collection of recipes, memories, and memorabilia, designed to showcase the legacy of one of British Columbia’s most enduring brands. This book conveys the spirit of the legendary restaurant and chronicles White Spot’s evolution from a single drive-in location in 1928 to a modern family restaurant with more than 65 locations in two provinces. Beautifully designed, The White Spot Cookbook takes readers on a journey through the restaurant’s history, showcasing White Spot’s enduring commitment to serving the finest, freshest food to people of all ages.

Kim Dorland explores the mind and work of one of Canada's most intriguing contemporary artists. Named Globe and Mail "Artist of the Year? in 2013, Dorland has captured the public's imagination with his tour-de-force, visceral creations. His paintings are at once referential, material, psychological, beautiful, and uncomfortable, resulting in a body of work that is seemingly disparate but undeniably connected through its idiosyncratic-and maximal-use of paint in all its forms.

If you love the taste of barbecue but worry about cooking the perfect steak or if you’re a whiz with burgers but want to grill other foods or if you harbor aspirations of presenting your own smoked brisket to a panel of trained judges, then this book is for you. BBQ Brian has spent more than a decade smoking and grilling foods, competing against other pit masters and learning from some of the best in the business. And not only does he regularly win awards for his barbecue and House of Q BBQ sauces, but he’s now one of the most sought-after teachers around. Why? Because he tells a great story, makes learning fun and easy and freely shares his recipes and his love of good food. Grilling with House of Q is part handsome cookbook, part instruction manual and part story collection. The result is that rare volume that entertains and becomes your go-to for delicious, no-fail smoked ribs, shrimp tacos, pulled pork and pit beans—or burritos, mac ’n’ cheese and baklava—all prepared on your grill and all eagerly anticipated by friends, backyard neighbors and barbecue judges.

Like the ceramics he collected throughout his life, Walter C. Koerner was a survivor of turbulent times. Born in Moravia in 1889, Koerner fled his homeland shortly before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. After immigrating to Canada and settling in B.C., he prospered in business and became one of the University of British Columbia’s most significant benefactors.Today, the gallery in the Museum of Anthropology that bears Koerner’s name is home to one of the most exquisite collections of European ceramics in North America. The Koerner Ceramics Gallery is a testament to elegance, craftsmanship, and the beauty of everyday objects. Yet it is also a reflection of the complex socio-political forces at work throughout four centuries of European history.A lavish celebration of this impressive collection, Koerner Ceramics highlights approximately two hundred functional and decorative wares from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. From Italian Renaissance maiolica, still considered by many to be the pinnacle of European ceramic art; to Haban pottery created by Anabaptist craftsmen, which carries the history of religious faith and persecution; to delftware from Holland, which was inspired by the Chinese and Japanese porcelain that arrived on Dutch shores in the seventeenth century—the pieces featured in this volume document the evolution of style, technique, and culture. This book is a fascinating, comprehensive, and visually stunning tribute.