![]() ![]() If you’ve operated an iconic restaurant for many years, routinely creating new dishes, like chef/owner Lisa Ahier and her staff have, it would be difficult to stuff all the recipes into one book. Together at SoBo: More Recipes and Stories from Tofino’s Beloved Restaurant ![]() For a complete list of places selling it go to. Some of the enticing recipes you’ll find in the book include asparagus, oyster mushrooms and spot prawns with gnocchi, roasted beet, yam and garlic salad, chicken pho Quadra-style with spicy almond sauce, gale force kimchi, honey quinoa sourdough bread, and rose petal jam, to name just a few.Ī Taste of Life on Quadra Island costs $34.95 and is sold at a number of bookstores and gift shops across Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Discovery Islands, and can be found in Munro’s Books and Russell Books in Victoria. The book also has chapters on preserving, so you can enjoy those foods year round. In other words, it’s the perfect cookbook for someone living on the West Coast of B.C., where accessing foods from those places is deliciously possible. The book is divided into chapters that include topics such as foods from the sea, foods from the garden, foods from the forest, foods from the orchard and berry patch, and foods from the path and paddle, all dotted with wonderful photos of and around Quadra Island. When deciding what recipes to put in the book, Taylor says that 81 cooks tested 350 recipes that were winnowed down to the 140 recipes featured in the book that met their fresh, local, made-from-scratch criteria. ![]() Those talented people included Quadra Island artists, chefs, home bakers, photographers, writers and artisans, people who added their personal flair to the book in one way or another.Ī Taste of Life on Quadra Island was a hit with book buyers and is now in its second printing. “A phenomenal feat made possible by lots of talented people being available due to pandemic shutdowns,” said Jeanette Taylor, the book’s co-ordinating editor. The book, a collaborative effort and fundraiser for the Quadra Island Children’s Centre, was completed in exactly 12 months, from the initial call for recipes to it being published Dec. Some good things happened during the COVID-19 pandemic and one was the creation of this beautiful, photo-rich, tasty recipe-filled, 240-page cookbook. A Taste of Life on Quadra Island: Island Cookery III To get you started, I’ve included a recipe from each book. Here’s some inspiration on what to cook this summer - and every other season - from two B.C. ![]()
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