Easter—this year celebrated across the long weekend of April 3 to 6—is the Christian festival commemorating Christ rising from the tomb. A festival that has come to be symbolic of the beginning of Spring, with all its new life and green shoots—hence the abundance of eggs, lambs, bunny rabbits and chicks, including all those chocolate ones.
Read More‘I made a conscious decision when I started writing cookbooks not to make it into a science or an education. I wanted to stay on a level with the readers of my books, who mostly didn’t go to culinary school’. Trish Deseine
Kicking off our St Patrick’s Day celebrations we have three books from hugely popular Irish-French food writer Trish Deseine, newly added to ckbk.
Read MoreTo celebrate the addition to ckbk of several cookbooks by Irish-French author Trish Deseine, and with an eye on the impending St Patrick’s Day celebrations, we spoke to Trish about her Irish roots, her love of the regional cooking of France, and some of the dishes which have meant the most to her over the years.
Read MoreCanadian Luay Gharafi, the author of Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking and Preserving Food at Home, joined his local Community Supported Agriculture program in 2009 and was immediately hooked. From there he went on to study in Toronto, enrolling in George Brown University's culinary arts program. In his food, fresh produce, and its cultivation, comes first.
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