The All New Purity Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552851834 ISBN 13: 9781552851838

Publisher: Whitecap Books, 2001

Synopsis

The Purity Cookbook has long been part of family traditions in many homes, and rare first editions are collector's items. Carefully reproduced from the original 1967 edition, this cookbook contains the recipes for an incredible variety of dishes, as well as tiny gems of kitchen wisdom that have been passed on from generation to generation. Handy charts detail the times for cooking vegetables, roasting turkeys, and cooking meat. With the Purity Cookbook, you can create an era of good, wholesome food just like your grandmother used to make.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Driver is an editor and writer who has spent over twenty years researching the culinary history of Canada and Britain. She is fascinated by the history of food and an avid collector of cookbooks and antique kitchenware. Elizabeth lives with her husband and two children in Toronto, where she is the Foodways Program Officer at Mongomery's Inn museum. She demonstrates such historic techniques as cooking on an open hearth, returning home most days with the smell of wood smoke on her clothes.

Review:

The Purity Cookbook is a Canadian classic, part of the cooking tradition that I grew up with. (Jean Pare)

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitecap Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1552851834
• ISBN 13: 9781552851838
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Driver Elizabeth