Many of Canada's best chefs are now celebrate fall with pumpkin and squash dishes on their menus. In this new addition to the Flavours collection of cookbooks, Elaine Elliott and Virginia Lee offer a tantalizing array of recipes drawn from fine restaurants across the country. These include Pumpkin Cream Cheese French Toast (Keltic Lodge, Ingonish, NS), Baked Sugar Pears with Pumpkin (Peller Estates Winery Restaurant, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON), and Red Kuri Squash Ravioli with Seared Trout and Braised Radicchio (Raincity Grill, Vancouver, BC). Top this off with Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake or a scoop of light Pumpkin Ice Cream. Who could know there would be so many recipes from this member of the squash family? All these recipes have been tested and adapted for home cooking.

ELAINE ELLIOT is a food enthusiast who has spent countless weekends seeking out new and exciting food ideas at fine restaurants and inns. Her Flavours series includes 12 titles, ranging from Maple Syrup to Lobster. With her sister Virginia Lee, Elaine is also the author of the bestselling Maritime Flavours Guidebook & Cookbook. She lives in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

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VIRGINIA LEE is the authour of Pacific Flavours Guidebook and Cookbook and co-authour, with her sister Elaine Elliot, of Maritime Falvours Guidebook and Cookbook as well as several other cookbooks that specialize in coastal cuisine. She is a native Nova Scotian whose three children live in British Columbia and the Caribbean. She divides her time between Lower Canard, Nova Scotia and Memphis, Tennessee.

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