The Five Roses Cook Book
- Publisher
- Whitecap Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551109954
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
In 1915, the Five Roses Cook Book was in daily use in nearly 650,000 Canadian kitchens - practically one copy for every second Canadian home. Here you will find a faithful reprint of this amazing book. " Enjoy the Five Roses Cook Book as a charming glimpse into the past, and as my grandmother did, as a friend and helper. " - Elizabeth Baird, food editor at Canadian Living Magazine
About the author
Elizabeth Driver
is an editor and writer who has spent over twenty years researching the culinary history of Canada and Britain. She is fascinated by the history of food and an avid collector of cookbooks and antique kitchenware. Elizabeth lives with her husband and two children in Toronto, where she is the Foodways Program Officer at Mongomery's Inn museum. She demonstrates such historic techniques as cooking on an open hearth, returning home most days with the smell of wood smoke on her clothes. Elizabeth is a past President of the Culinary Historians of Ontario. She is the recipient of the Tremaine Medal for 2007 from The Bibliographical Society of Canada and in 2009 she was inducted into Taste Canada's Hall of Fame.