For A Taste of Acadie, Melvin Gallant and Marielle Cormier-Boudreau travelled all over Acadia, from the Gaspé Peninsula to Cape Breton, from the tip of Prince Edward Island to the Magdalen Islands, and around northern New Brunswick and southern Nova Scotia. They gathered the culinary secrets of traditional Acadian cooks while there was still time, and then they …
Sir John’s Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister
Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth, Sir John’s Table is a refreshing look at Canada’s first prime minister. Sir John’s Table traverses the colourful life of Macdonald, from his passage as a young Scottish boy in the steerage compartment aboard the Earl of Buckinghamshire to his new home in Kingston, Upper Canada. It traces …