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Everyone Can Cook Everything

by (author) Eric Akis

Publisher
Whitecap Books
Initial publish date
Oct 2012
Category
General, General, Reference
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770501683
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $12.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781770501096
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $35.00

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Description

Eric Akis is back, with the long-awaited compendium of his bestselling Everyone Can Cook? series. From his original book, Everyone Can Cook, to his subsequent guides to cooking midweek meals, slow cooker meals, appetizers, seafood and cooking for celebrations, Eric Akis has been lauded by food writers across the country for delivering recipes that really work.
Everyone Can Cook Everything collects the best of over 10 years of Eric Akis—240 recipes—in one beautiful 400-pagesplus hardcover volume. This anthology is a must-have for any Akis fan and the perfect introduction for those who are just discovering Eric's straightforward and down-to- earth recipes.
The book's numerous chapters provide concise recipes and cooking tips for preparing a vast array of meals—breakfasts and brunches, appetizers, soups, salads, noodle and rice dishes, vegetarian entr�es, seafood, poultry and meat dishes, condiments and side dishes, baked goods and desserts. Meals that can be cooked in a slow cooker are highlighted with a special icon.
Jump right in and master recipes such as:
° Morrocan-Spiced Potato and Carrot Salad
° Asian-Style Vegetable Noodle Bowl ° Poached Sablefish with Champagne Hollandaise
° Osso Bucco with Gremolata ° Lemon Lover's Cupcakes
° Cocoa Pavlova
Everyone Can Cook Everything is the perfect gift for the home cook, no matter what their skill level. With this book's detailed instructions, exact preparation and cooking times, serving sizes, and many full-colour photographs, Eric Akis continues to prove that everyone really can cook everything!

About the author

Eric Akis has been a food writer for the Times Colonist newspaper, in Victoria, since 1997. His popular bi-weekly food column also appears in newspapers across Canada, including the Calgary Herald, the Vancouver Sun, The Province, the Hamilton Spectator, the Ottawa Citizen and the Edmonton Journal. Before becoming a journalist, Eric trained to become a professional chef and a pastry chef. He worked for 15 years in a variety of operations in Ontario and British Columbia, from fine hotels to restaurants to catering companies. In 2003, his experiences as a chef and food writer inspired him to create the bestselling Everyone Can Cook series of cookbooks, which includes Everyone Can Cook, Everyone Can Cook Seafood, Everyone Can Cook Appetizers, Everyone Can Cook Midweek Meals, Everyone Can Cook for Celebrations, Everyone Can Cook Slow Cooker Meals and the collected edition: Everyone Can Cook Everything. Eric Akis was born into a military family in Chicoutimi, Quebec, and has lived in six provinces. In 1992, he moved to Victoria, BC, and now makes the city his home, living there with his wife, Cheryl Warwick, also a chef, and his son, Tyler.

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