Martha Stewart shares her ideas for delectable finger foods to serve at 13 different parties.  Includes 150 original recipes, tips on sophisticated presentation, along with photographs.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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Martha Stewart&#39;s Hors d&#39;Oeuvres: The Creation and Presentation of Fabulous Finger Foods (1984)

This cookbook takes toast beyond a simple breakfast item, and makes it suitable for brunch, lunch, dinner, and dessert.  It features 50 sweet and savory recipes organized by season.  Recipes are designed to use fresh ingredients and simple techniques.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 7 x 10 inches.
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Toast: The Cookbook (2015) by Raquel Pelzel

Home Made Summer presents Yvette Van Boven&#39;s absolute favourite recipes for spring and summer.  Inspired by her childhood in Ireland and her summers in Provence, van Boven has created a collection sure to tempt you to step into the kitchen.  Using seasonal ingredients, such as freshly picked apples and berries, delicate summer lettuces and fresh herbs, she presents recipes for Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch, Snacks, Beverages, Appetizers, Main Courses, and Dessert.  Filled with tasty recipes, beautiful photos, clear instructions, and hand-drawn artwork throughout.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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Home Made Summer (2012) by Yvette Van Boven

Super Natural Simple: Whole-Food, Vegetarian Recipes for Real Life is a cookbook by James Beard Award-winning author Heidi Swanson.  The book focuses on making healthy home cooking manageable and appealing with over 120 vegetarian recipes.  The recipes are designed to be quick, flavorful, and nutritious meals.  Recipes feature short ingredient lists, make-ahead techniques, and clever methods to create high-impact meals with ease.  The book celebrates cooking with nutrient-dense plants, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, making it an approachable guide for those looking to incorporate more plant-based meals into their diet.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 7 x 10 inches.
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Super Natural Simple: Whole-Food, Vegetarian Recipes for Real Life (2021) by Heidi Swanson

Mississippi Vegan: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Boy&#39;s Heart by Timothy Pakron, is a plant-based cookbook that celebrates Southern cuisine.  The book features 125 approachable recipes rooted in traditional Cajun, Creole, and Southern food, all made without animal products.  The recipes and stories are inspired by the author&#39;s childhood on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, focusing on local landscapes, flavors, and sustainable ingredients.   It combines photographs, personal stories, and easy-to-follow recipes, showing that deep flavor can be achieved in vegan dishes.  Pakron aims to show the &#34;undercurrent of veganism&#34; within Southern food, using plant-and mushroom-based ingredients as the stars of the show.   Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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Mississippi Vegan: Recipes &#38; Stories from a Southern Boy&#39;s Heart (2018) by Timothy Pakron

Ovenly: Sweet and Salty Recipes from New York&#39;s Most Creative Bakery is a cookbook by Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin, the founders of the renowned Brooklyn bakery, Ovenly.  The book provides recipes that explore culinary traditions with an unexpected twist, thoughtfully blending sweet and salty flavors with a touch of spice.  It includes many of the bakery&#39;s popular items, such as the famous salted chocolate chip cookies, dense shortbreads, buttery scones, cakes, and tarts.  The authors encourage creativity with daring yet simple recipes, some featuring ingredients like parmesan and sage, sour cherry and almond, or even bacon and beer.  The book also shares the inspiring and often hilarious story of how the self-taught bakers started their business from scratch.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x10 inches.
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Ovenly: Sweet and Salty Recipes From New York&#39;s Most Creative Bakery (2014) by Agatha Kulaga &#38; Erin Patinkin

This is The Church Supper Cookbook, a collection of potluck recipes edited by David Joachim.   It features over 400 tried-and-true recipes from families and churches across the United States.   The recipes include comforting classics like casseroles, salads, main dishes, and desserts.  The book aims to preserve treasured, time-honoured family recipes that have been passed down through generations.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 9 inches.
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The Church Supper Cookbook: Over 400 Potluck Recipes From Families and Churches (2005) edited by David Joachim

Two Fat Ladies was a British cooking program and assorted series starring Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright that ran from 1996 to 1999 on the BBC.  This cookbook focuses on their TV series &#34;Two Fat Ladies: Gastronomic Adventures (with Motorbike and Sidecar)&#34;.   The premise of this series involved the pair touring Britain on a Royal Enfield motorbike with a sidecar, and cooking along the way (eg eating outdoors with Scouts, baking cakes for a village fete, etc).  The show described them as: &#34;The Ladies are cooks not chefs – they reject the pretensions and elaborations of haute cuisine and are aggressively unfashionable, delighting in such ingredients as clotted cream, lard and fatty meats.&#34;   Hardcover book.  Book is signed by both ladies.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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Two Fat Ladies - Gastronomic Adventures with Motorbike and Sidecar (1996) by Jennifer Paterson &#38; Clarissa Dickson Wright - SIGNED

Food for the Soul features hearty and filling comfort food recipes designed for cooler months.  The recipes include slow-cooked meals for the oven, stovetop, and electric slow cooker, as well as soups, stews, and casseroles.  The cookbook also relies on the publication&#39;s signature triple-tested recipe method.  Hardcover book.
Dimensions:
Approximately 8.5 x 11 inches.
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Food for the Soul (2016) by The Australian Women&#39;s Weekly

The cookbook Open Kitchen: A Chef&#39;s Day at The Inn at Bay Fortune by Chef Michael Smith features a timeline of a day in the life of an inn chef.  The book contains over 40 contemporary creative recipes inspired by the Inn at Bay Fortune.   It won a bronze medal at Cuisine Canada&#39;s Cookbook Awards.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 8.5 inches.
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Open Kitchen: A Chef&#39;s Day at The Inn at Bay Fortune (1998) by Michael Smith

Chef Michael Smith is one of Canada&#39;s most popular chefs, and he is passionate about cooking and sharing great food and flavours.  In this cookbook, you&#39;ll find Michael&#39;s all-time favourite recipes, the ones he cooks regularly in his own home kitchen.  There are lots of wonderful, memorable flavours that you&#39;ll enjoy with your family and friends.  Some recipes are: Apple Pie Pancakes with Caramel Syrup, Coconut Crusted Chicken with Mango Mint Salsa, Honey Mustard Barbecue Baked Baby Back Ribs, Nutmeg Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Wilted Baby Spinach, Sausage Sage Bread Pudding, Michael&#39;s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, Triple-Treat Creamsicle Marshmallows, and more.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 11 inches.
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Chef Michael Smith&#39;s Kitchen: 100 of My Favourite Easy Recipes (2011)

Nigella Lawson&#39;s &#34;Forever Summer&#34; focuses on warm-weather recipes designed to be enjoyed throughout the entire year.  It includes a variety of international dishes, ranging from Italian antipasti to Greek mezze and Moroccan roast lamb.  Also featured as a TV series on the Style Network.  Nigella Lawson is renowned for numerous bestselling cookbooks and television series that have established her as a global household name.  Hardcover book.  First Edition.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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Forever Summer (2003) by Nigella Lawson - FIRST EDITION

This cookbook contains more than 100 Italian recipes geared toward family meals.  Featured dishes include Fried Mozzarella Skewers, Escarole and White Bean Soup, and Ziti with Broccoli Rabe and Sausage.  Described as a very accessible and affordable collection of Lidia&#39;s signature reliable dishes.   Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 8.5 inches.
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Lidia&#39;s Favorite Recipes: 100 Foolproof Italian Dishes, from Basic Sauces to Irresistible Entrees (2012) by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich &#38; Tanya Bastia

In her kitchen, Christine Ha possesses a rare ingredient that most professionally-trained chefs never learn to use: the ability to cook by sense.  After tragically losing her sight in her twenties, this remarkable home cook, who specializes in the mouthwatering, wildly popular Vietnamese comfort foods of her childhood, as well as beloved American standards that she came to love growing up in Texas, re-learned how to cook.  Using her heightened senses, she turns out dishes that are remarkably delicious, accessible, luscious, and crave-worthy.  Millions of viewers tuned in to watch Christine sweep the thrilling Season 3 Master Chef finale, and here they can find more of her deftly crafted recipes.  Hardcover book.  Note: book has personal note - signed by authour.
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Approximately 7.5 x 9.5 inches.
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Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food (2013) by Christine Ha - Winner of Master Chef Season 3 - SIGNED

One of Canada’s favourite culinary personalities returns with the companion volume to the award-winning Lucy’s Kitchen — an inspirational collection of recipes for every month of the year.  The resurgence of farmers’ markets, along with economic, environmental and health concerns have more and more people cooking for themselves.  Now with Lucy’s help you can eat better at home than in any restaurant.  Try a family-friendly Victoria Day celebration with Firecracker Chicken Salad and S’mores Squares, entertain foodie friends with a Caribbean Paella and Chocolate Baby Cakes or try a new take on Indian cuisine.  From hearty winter braises, through spring salads, summer grills and luscious fall feasts, this book shares the pleasures of the table with family and friends.  Softcover book.  Note: Book has personal note - signed by authour.
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Approximately 8 x 9.5 inches.
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A Year in Lucy&#39;s Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes and Memorable Meals (2009) by Lucy Waverman - SIGNED

For Bonnie Stern, good food is an essential element in turning a house into a home.  With this cookbook, Bonnie invites us into her kitchen as she prepares food for the people she loves.  Bonnie’s recipes include Caramelized Onion Tart with Gorgonzola, Thai Shrimp Dumplings with Orange Chili Sauce, Wheat Berry and Grilled Corn Salad, Split Pea Soup with Dill and Old-fashioned Rice Pudding, Prime Rib of Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Lemon Meringue Pavlova Roll, Double Fudge Chocolate Cake, and more.  The recipes are fresh and full of flavour but never difficult to prepare, and Bonnie’s trademark step-by-step method and reassuring guidance will help even the most nervous cook through techniques like making meringues, working with phyllo and cooking the perfect risotto.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 10 inches.
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Bonnie Stern&#39;s Essentials of Home Cooking (2003)

Winner of the 2007 Canadian Culinary Book Award for Canadian Food Culture.  In Canadians at Table we learn about lessons of survival from the First Nations, the foods that fuelled fur traders, and the adaptability of early settlers to their new environment. As communities developed and transportation improved, waves of newcomers arrived, bringing memories of foods, beverages, and traditions they had known.  They discovered how to use native plants for many of their needs. Community events and institutions developed to serve religious, social, and economic needs from agricultural and temperance societies to Womens Institutes, from markets and fairs to community meals and celebrations.  Hardcover book. 
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Approximately 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship and Folklore - A Culinary History of Canada (2006) by Dorothy Duncan 

Compiled from recipes contributed by ladies of Toronto and other cities and towns for the benefit of The Hospital for Sick Children.  This edition is one of the five variants of the book published in 1878 by the Rose-Belford Publishing Company in Toronto.  Most of the 19th Century recipes in this book can be successfully prepared in today&#39;s kitchens as long as you keep in mind some of the differences between then and now.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 5.5 inches.
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The Home Cook Book: Canada&#39;s First Community Cookbook (first published in 1877) - 125th Anniversary Edition (2002)

Toronto is known for having a vibrant and varied food scene.  This cookbook includes 100 signature recipes from the city&#39;s best restaurants - with the home cook in mind.  Dozens of chefs, from veteran to rising star, have generously shared their fan-favourite, personally tested recipes, ranging from the Momofuku Milk Bar&#39;s Crack Pie, Bymark&#39;s fennel-crusted black cod, Pizza Libretto&#39;s spicy meatballs, and many more.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 10 inches.
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Toronto Cooks: 100 Signature Recipes from the City&#39;s Best Restaurants (2014) by Amy Rosen

This cookbook focuses on comfort food and Jewish cuisine, including traditional recipes using schmaltz (rendered chicken fat).  Features recipes and stories from Toronto-based chef Anthony Rose.  Includes famous recipes such as the Fat Pasha Cauliflower and Rose and Sons Patty Melt.  Hardcover book.  Note: Book has personal note - signed by authour.  Bit of wear.
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Approximately 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
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The Last Schmaltz: A Very Serious Cookbook (2018) by Anthony Rose and Chris Johns - SIGNED

The New York Times Passover Cookbook includes beloved family recipes and innovative kosher cuisine that will make your special meal particularly savory and festive.  Features more than 200 recipes including contributions from Craig Claiborne, Mimi Sheraton, Wolfgang Puck, Alice Waters, and many others.  Includes multiple versions of traditional dishes, such as seven versions of matzoh balls and six types of haroseth.  Hardcover book.  First edition.
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Approximately 8 x 9.5 inches.
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The New York Times Passover Cookbook: More Than 200 Holiday Recipes from Top Chefs and Writers (1999) by Linda Amster - FIRST EDITION

This cookbook offers a collection of 80 new, approachable recipes that blend traditional Indian flavors with modern culinary techniques, designed for the home chef.   The dishes are described as flavorful, comforting, and imaginative, featuring items like Venison Biryani, Chilled Pea Salad, and signature restaurant dishes.  The book is organized into chapters such as &#34;Raise a Glass,&#34; &#34;Bounty of the Earth,&#34; &#34;Coastal Flavors,&#34; &#34;The Butcher&#39;s Block,&#34; and &#34;Sweet Endings&#34;.   Interspersed between the recipes are stories about Vij&#39;s culinary journey, philosophy, and the people and travels that inspired him.  The book emphasizes using local ingredients and aims to make modern Indian cuisine accessible to a wide audience, reflecting a fusion of Indian roots and North American cuisine.   Hardcover book.
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Approximately 8 x 10 inches.
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My New Indian Kitchen (2025) by Vikram Vij with Jennifer Muttoo

This cookbook explores Moroccan cuisine and culture.  It features 150 authentic Moroccan recipes, including regional specialties like tagines and pastries.  Hardcover book.
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Approximately 9 x 12 inches.
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The Taste of Morocco (1987) by Robert Carrier

Bring the exotic spices and tantalizing flavours of Mediterranean food to your table!  This cookbook is a culinary voyage into Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East with 100 recipes highlighting the styles and ingredients of these colourful regions.  Favourite dishes such as Moussakas, Falafel, and Tabbouleh are given a refreshing twist while witty essays on key ingredients make this book a satisfying read.  Softcover book.
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Approximately 8.5 x 10.5 inches.
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Food of the Sun: From Mediterranean to Morocco to the Middle East (1995) by Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

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2012 hardcover cookbook by Fabrizia Lanza with Kate Winslow, approximately 8 x 9.5 in, light wear

Coming Home to Sicily: Seasonal Harvests and Cooking from Case Vecchie hardcover cookbook

Recipe layout with lemon sorbet and citrus photo

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Illustrated Sicilian cuisine cookbook with recipes and color photographs

Coming Home to Sicily cookbook hardcover

Case Vecchie is the most notable cooking school in Sicily, a place where life is lived and food prepared the same way it has been for centuries. And this delectable cookbook from owner Fabrizia Lanza is the definitive source of authentic seasonal Sicilian foods. Co-authored with former Gourmet magazine editor Kate Winslow, it tells Fabrizia&#39;s story of coming home to the family estate, Regaleali, to assist her aging mother with the cooking school that she founded in 1989. Fabrizia writes eloquently and in detail about the seasonal harvests, the foods produced--cheeses, jams, olive oil, vin cotto, estratto, and more--and the loyal and talented staff who make it all possible. Along the way, she offers more than 100 family recipes that she shares with her students.  Hardcover book.  Bit of wear.
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Approximately 8 x 9.5 inches.
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Lot #122: Coming Home to Sicily: Seasonal Harvests and Cooking from Case Vecchie (2012) by Fabriza Lanza with Kate Winslow

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Lot #122: Coming Home to Sicily: Seasonal Harvests and Cooking from Case Vecchie (2012) by Fabriza Lanza with Kate Winslow

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