As Vancouver prepares to open it’s doors to the world for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, two of its top restaurants will be launching new cookbooks with Whitecap this fall, Mangia with Quattro and C Food.

Mangia with Quattro features family style Italian foods from the heart as father and son team Antonio and Patrick Corsi, owners of Quattro on Fourth, Quattro at Whistler and Gusto di Quattro share their favorite dishes and recipes from the restaurants. This book is organized like an a la carte menu and includes a section on Italian pantry basics; these meals are meant to be shared with friends, cooked with fresh ingredients and for living with abbondanza (Italian for abundance and a passion for life).

C Food is world-renowned for its innovation, taking their classic seafood dishes to new and unexpected places. Owner Harry Kambolis and executive chef Robert Clark takes their most popular dishes and pairs it with the creative energy of the restaurant in this stunning cookbook that is beautifully photographed. It also features delicious meat, vegetables and dessert dishes-C Restaurant was recently voted one of the 101 Places to eat before you die!

Check out this article about C Food in the Metro News today: http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/comment/article/360554--fab-five-sample-this-book-buffet

One of the most unique cookbooks coming out this September 2009, is not your average cookbook. Kitchen Scraps by Pierre Lamielle is the sort of cookbook where easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by hilarious illustrations of provocative chickens and babushka-clad grandmothers and where mutant beef monsters compete for ultimate burger supremacy.For cookbook author and illustrator Pierre Lamielle, his illustrated food column at the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine is where it all began. The column combined Pierre’s knack for offbeat writing and irreverent illustrations with some fantastic recipes. As a B.C. native, Pierre took design and illustration courses at Capilano College, and after graduation, he worked for both the Vancouver Sun and the Province as a feature designer. He then moved to Calgary to work at Swerve magazine, where his ideas for Kitchen Scraps bloomed. But he needed more formal culinary training, so he enrolled in the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Kitchen Scraps combines Pierre’s wild imagination and illustrations with comforting recipes that don’t come from a can.

Check out more of Pierre’s artistic talents and his Kitchen Scraps blog at http://kitchenscraps.ca/. and look for his illustration on the cover of City Palate Calgary for their September/October issue!  

Congratulations to Rockin' Ronnie and his barbecue team "The Butt Shredders" for taking first place in the Backyard Burger event in the Canadian National Barbecue Championships this past weekend in Whistler, B.C! Competing with 35 other teams, the judges decided that Ron's mouth-watering Beef Burger with Chili Butter Core Topped with Chipolte and Roasted Garlic Mayo and Guacamole was number one!

Check out more of Ron's smokin' recipes in his newest book Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! For more information on Rockin' Ronnie Shewchuk, visit his website www.ronshewchuk.com, where there are links to Ronnie's Barbecue Secrets twitter feed and Facebook fan page.