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The Culture of Cooking

Some of Today's Favourite Cooks | The Multicultural Kitchen | Cooking in the Regions | Fast Food, Slow Food

Cover of cookbook, THE UMBERTO MENGHI COOKBOOK, with a photograph of Umberto Menghi sitting at a table in a garden, with trays of food and a glass of wine Source

  

Page 34 of cookbook, THE UMBERTO MENGHI COOKBOOK, with a recipe for Salsa di Carne (meat sauce) Source

  

Page 35 of cookbook, THE UMBERTO MENGHI COOKBOOK, with a full-page photograph of pastas, vegetables, garlic and vegetables Source

Umberto Menghi. The Umberto Menghi Cookbook. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1982

Umberto Menghi opened the first authentic Italian restaurant in Vancouver in 1972. He became a huge success, and many of his most popular recipes can be found in this book.

Cover of cookbook, FROM OUR SLOVAK KITCHEN, with a photograph of three corn-husk dolls carying trays of food Source

  

From Our Slovak Kitchen. Winnipeg: Catholic Women's League of the Visitation of Our Lady Slovak Church, 1984

Rolls, dumplings, tortes, strudels, dessert slices and tarts fill the pages of this collection of Slovak favourites published in particular for "the children of Slovak descent, as a reminder of their heritage" (p. 1).

Cover of cookbook, CANADIAN KARELIAN TRADITIONS: FOOD, with a Karelian-style border and a drawing of a key on a ring Source

  

Page [11] of cookbook, CANADIAN KARELIAN TRADITIONS: FOOD, with a recipe for Karelian Meat Pot Source

  

Page [12] of cookbook, CANADIAN KARELIAN TRADITIONS: FOOD, with a recipe for Turnip Casserole Source

Silja Ikäheimonen-Lindgren. Canadian Karelian Traditions: Food = Kanada karjalaisten kansanperinteet: ruoka. Toronto: Designex, 1985

The Karelians originally immigrated to Canada from the province of Karelia, then part of Finland. This little book gives readers a rare feeling for their cuisine. As one cook commented when asked for a favourite recipe, "What recipe? We don't use recipes. We just go to the kitchen and make it" (p. [1]).
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