Boreal Feast: A Culinary Journey Through the North - Softcover

Michele Genest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550176277 ISBN 13: 9781550176278

Publisher: Harbour Publishing (CA), 2014

Synopsis

From the author of The Boreal Gourmet comes another irresistible tribute to foods of the North, and this time she devotes special attention to feasts. Michele Genests feasts cover the whole spectrum -- for small groups or large, extensively planned or spontaneous, as elaborate as a 12-course tasting menu or as simple and satisfying as a pot of Labrador tea and a piece of bannock on a hillside during a berry-picking expedition. Genest takes the reader on a journey to Norway, Finland and Sweden to discover what other northern peoples do with the same wild ingredients that live and grow in the North American boreal forest. Part travelogue, the book includes stories of hunting for cloudberries on the Dempster Highway, throwing a birthday party on the Kaskawulsh Glacier, and harvesting trumpet chanterelles in Nordland. Featuring prized northern ingredients, like morel mushrooms, birch syrup, coho salmon, spruce tips and blueberries, this is a celebration of boreal food and forest. With creations like Solstice-Cured Lake Trout Gravlad Lax and Birch Syrup Panna Cotta with Rhubarb Compote, northern and southern dwellers alike will be inspired.

About this title

About the Author:

Yukon author and cook Michele Genest has lived in Whitehorse since 1994, where she moved from her hometown of Toronto in search of winter. She has written about food and culture for the past 25 years, and cooked ever since she can remember. Her past experience includes a four-year stint as dining editor of 'enRoute Magazine', and another as chief dishwasher and fish-cleaner in a waterfront restaurant on a small Greek island. She was co-editor of two anthologies of Yukon writing, 'Urban Coyote' and 'Urban Coyote, New Territory', and has written several plays, including 'Fasting Girl', 'Gulf' and 'Magic Box', all produced by Nakai Theatre. She writes a regular cooking column for 'Yukon, North of Ordinary Magazine', and her print credits include the 'Globe and Mail', the 'Toronto Star', the 'Montreal Gazette', 'enRoute', 'Flare' and 'Geist'. Her first cookbook, 'The Boreal Gourmet', is a national bestseller and won a Canadian Culinary Books award in 2011. She is releasing her second book on northern cuisine, 'The Boreal Feast', in June 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harbour Publishing (CA)
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1550176277
• ISBN 13: 9781550176278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224