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The Open-All-Hours Insider’s Guide to Finding Great Ingredients in Calgary, the Bow Valley and Beyond

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“dee Hobsbawn-Smith is the undisputed queen of all that is local and regional in foodstuffs. She knows more about Alberta growers and producers than anyone else on the planet. And it’s a good thing she can write as well as she does, so we can all know about and appreciate what is going on in our back yard.” ~ Kathy Richardier, editor & publisher, City Palate: The Flavour of Calgary’s Food Scene

This definitive regional sourcebook includes a comprehensive section on local food growers & producers, farmers’ markets and retailers, and a comprehensive glossary.

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Shop Talk

The Open-All-Hours Insider’s Guide to Finding Great Ingredients in Calgary, the Bow Valley and Beyond

Out of Print

“dee Hobsbawn-Smith is the undisputed queen of all that is local and regional in foodstuffs. She knows more about Alberta growers and producers than anyone else on the planet. And it’s a good thing she can write as well as she does, so we can all know about and appreciate what is going on in our back yard.” ~ Kathy Richardier, editor & publisher, City Palate: The Flavour of Calgary’s Food Scene

This definitive regional sourcebook includes a comprehensive section on local food growers & producers, farmers’ markets and retailers, and a comprehensive glossary.

Find it Used

Read an Excerpt

The Quick Gourmet

Evolving from the food a busy chef and mother feeds two growing sons, this witty collection is en pointe, adventurous and elegant.

The Curious Cook At Home: Recipes & Secrets From An Adventurous Chef

This collection follows a popular newspaper columnist home into her kitchen, sets its elbows on the counter, and eats with the family.

Give an adventurous good chef a tiny restaurant without a deep fryer, and be amazed at what transpires: depth of flavour, intelligent choice of cooking methods, delicious food that is inherently healthful.

Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet

Foodshed puts a face on Alberta’s sustainable food scene with detailed profiles of 76 of Alberta’s leading growers and producers.

“Bread & Water is an emotionally arresting, beautifully written series of essays.”

~ Jurors’ Citation, Saskatchewan Book Awards, University of Saskatchewan President’s Office Nonfiction Award

“Food is a wonderful agent for storytelling... and Bread & Water demonstrates this brilliantly.”

~ Sarah Ramsey, starred review, Quill & Quire

“[Bread & Water is] An amazing feast... riveting... eloquent.”

~ Patricia D. Robertson, Winnipeg Free Press

“[Bread & Water is a] sensuous experience; she brings her poet’s eye and ear to everything within her purview.”

~ Professor emerita Kathleen Wall, Blue Duets

“A deep love of the art of cooking that includes the language of fine dining (cassoulet, confit) even if the lamb was raised in Olds and she picked the rhubarb herself... she impressively manages this collision of worlds with a wholesome, approachable style.”

~ Megan Clark, Alberta Views

“These finely focussed poems [in Wildness Rushing In] invite us into a sensuous and emotionally rich landscape.”

~ Don McKay, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize

“The writing [in Wildness Rushing In] is honed and textured, the senses so alive that you can practically taste the language. There are moments of brilliance rare in a first book.”

~ Jurors’ Citation, Saskatchewan Book Awards

“dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s stories [in What Can’t Be Undone] are written with a poetic edge. Her descriptions, particularly western landscapes, are often luxurious, lending themselves a kind of nuanced impression, a delicate fingerprint on the reader’s mind. "

~ Lee Kvern, Alberta Views

“[Foodshed is] A rich encyclopedia of facts, farm-gate lore and original recipes... a politically engaging narrative in which Hobsbawn-Smith articulates the challenges and joys faced by small-scale producers... don’ t let the alphabet theme fool you. This is no tame nursery rhyme; it is a locavore call to arms.”

~ P.D. Robertson, The Globe & Mail

Shop Talk

The Open-All-Hours Insider’s Guide to Finding Great Ingredients in Calgary, the Bow Valley and Beyond

Out of Print

Shop Talk

The Open-All-Hours Insider’s Guide to Finding Great Ingredients in Calgary, the Bow Valley and Beyond

Out of Print

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