Book Review by Norene Gilletz
PANACHE IS PACKED WITH PAN-TASTIC RECIPES!
When I first moved from Montreal to Toronto in 1997, I was fortunate enough to meet Shawna Goodman-Sone, a well-known cooking teacher and chef. She became my link to the local culinary community, helping me connect to the food mavens of Toronto – a mélange of cooking teachers, cookbook authors, caterers and food stylists who all shared my passion for food.
We still stayed in touch when Shawna moved from Toronto to Philadelphia. She later moved to Montreal and initiated a cookbook fundraising project for the Jewish General Hospital. Over 100 volunteers from Montreal’s Jewish community gathered, submitted and tested recipes for Panache, which took two years to create.
Summertime is just around the corner and although I enjoy entertaining friends and family, I don’t enjoy spending time in the kitchen when the weather is warm and sunny. I’m always on the lookout for simple solutions to entertaining, so I was delighted to discover the award-winning cookbook: Margaret’s Table – Easy Cooking & Inspiring Entertaining, by Margaret Dickenson of Ottawa.
I love berries of all sorts, but blueberries are my absolute favorite. Blueberries are considered a “super-food” because of their health benefits. They’re packed with phytonutrients, anthocyanins and other gigantic words that are used to describe the small, but mighty blueberry. But the best thing about blueberries is their fabulous flavor and the special memories they evoke.