Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify readers from all walks of life. The comprehensiveness of Mucz's research and interviews framed with deftly painted historical, cultural, and botanical backgrounds guarantee that this chapter of the Canadian story will continue to be told for generations to come. It is a deep, charming, and often moving work of intricate anthropology that will stir scholar and non-specialist alike.

Part memoir, part cookbook from Ukrainian-Canadian, Raisa Stone.

A gorgeously illustrated cookbook pairing Bollywood classic and cult favorite movies with Indian menus and recipes in an amazingly illustrated cookbook which fans will adore

Linda Dalal Sawaya painter, illustrator, gardener, cook, and Alice's youngest daughter presents the time-honored recipes of her Mother Alice, and their Lebanese immigrant family, with stories and love.While Lebanese cuisine, a very popular and healthy Mediterranean diet, is known for hommus, tabbouli, baba ghannouj, and falafel, Sawaya shares a variety of basic recipes not generally found in this genre of cookbook, for example how to cure olives, bake pita bread, and how to make Lebanese ice cream. The recipes which vary from simple and delicious to complex and sublime are seasoned with family stories that touch the hearts of all readers Middle Eastern and beyond.This newly revised and expanded edition of Alice's Kitchen is greatly anticipated by many since the book out of print for several years.