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Graham Kerr. Graham Kerr's Television Cookbook. Vol. 3. [Rexdale, Ont.]: Common-Market Trading, [1968]
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In the 1960s, Graham Kerr's rambunctious CBC television show was the talk of the country.
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Margo Oliver. Margo Oliver's Most Treasured Recipes. Montréal: Optimum, 1977
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The 1970s have been described as an era of hedonism. In cooking, this often took the form of a fancy dessert such as Baked Alaska, with specialty coffees finishing off the meal. On the other hand, the lighter "nouvelle cuisine" was also beginning to attract attention.
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Joan Mackie. A Culinary Palette: Kitchen Masterpieces from Sixty-five Great Artists. Toronto: Merritt, 1981
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Towards the end of the century, publishers decided that cooks would appreciate art as well as recipes. The result: the coffee table cookbook. These are beautiful objects, no doubt, but it is difficult to imagine the home cook with sticky, floury hands working from one on the kitchen table!
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Cynthia Wine. Cynthia Wine's Hot & Spicy Cooking. Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books, 1984
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The 1980s found Canadians developing an interest in hot and spicy international flavours -- charred red peppers, lots of fresh ginger and lime, and hot chillies. Cynthia Wine seems adept at spotting food trends and introducing them to the home cook.
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