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Pacific Flavours: Third Edition,Recipes from the best chefs on Canada's West Coast
Pacific Flavours captures contemporary Pacific cuisine with an exciting range of signature dishes from the top restaurants and inns in Vancouver, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Whistler, and the Okanagan Valley.
Pacific Flavours offers recipes for seafood specialties, delicious desserts, appealing appetizers, salads, entrées, and breakfast foods. Among Grilled Fanny Bay Oysters with Smoked Paprika Mayonnaise, Vichyssoise with Lobster Medallions, Cinnamon Chili Rub Flank Steak, Wild Salmon and Sorrel with Fresh Ginger Juice Sauce, Frangelico Mousse with Champagne Sabayon. Afternoon tea -- a Victoria favourite -- is included. Many of the recipes include suggestions for wine to serve alongside; the recommended wines are among the finest produced by BC wineries.
Author Virginia Lee independently selected 39 of B.C.'s finest restaurants, and obtained the recipes for many of their finest dishes. She then adapted the recipes for home use, testing them fully.
For this second edition of this successful book, Virginia Lee has revised and updated the restaurants and inns she recommends to diners looking for the finest in Pacific regional cuisine. Each is described in a profile covering food, decor, and facilities, and maps help locate each establishment.
Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, Pacific Flavours is a tempting cookbook featuring Pacific coast specialities and at the same time a reliable guidebook to the finest British Columbia restaurants and inns featuring regional cuisine.
Pacific Flavours offers recipes for seafood specialties, delicious desserts, appealing appetizers, salads, entrées, and breakfast foods. Among Grilled Fanny Bay Oysters with Smoked Paprika Mayonnaise, Vichyssoise with Lobster Medallions, Cinnamon Chili Rub Flank Steak, Wild Salmon and Sorrel with Fresh Ginger Juice Sauce, Frangelico Mousse with Champagne Sabayon. Afternoon tea -- a Victoria favourite -- is included. Many of the recipes include suggestions for wine to serve alongside; the recommended wines are among the finest produced by BC wineries.
Author Virginia Lee independently selected 39 of B.C.'s finest restaurants, and obtained the recipes for many of their finest dishes. She then adapted the recipes for home use, testing them fully.
For this second edition of this successful book, Virginia Lee has revised and updated the restaurants and inns she recommends to diners looking for the finest in Pacific regional cuisine. Each is described in a profile covering food, decor, and facilities, and maps help locate each establishment.
Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, Pacific Flavours is a tempting cookbook featuring Pacific coast specialities and at the same time a reliable guidebook to the finest British Columbia restaurants and inns featuring regional cuisine.
160 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2004
About the author
Virginia Lee
64 books3 followersVirginia is an illustrator of several children’s books, including 'Persephone' and 'The Frog Bride', She has sculpted for film as well as numerous of her own surreal characters and enjoys painting atmospheric, fantastical landscapes . Her specialty lies in conveying mythic transformations and revealing the hidden depths of the psyche in her own uniquely symbolic way. She is inspired by nature, landscapes, Dartmoor, myths, fairy tales, folklore, the human condition and spirituality. To wander through her woodland gallery and discover mythic lands and surreal characters, visit http://www.virginialee.co.uk. and her blog http://www.artofvirginialee.blogspot....
Her father is renowned illustrator, Alan Lee.
Her father is renowned illustrator, Alan Lee.
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