Cedar and Salt: Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea

Description for Sales People:

• The first cookbook that celebrates the abundance and bounty of Vancouver Island's active and burgeoning food scene, which is a big contributor to Vancouver Island's booming tourism industry
• Vancouver Island has, since 2007, received honours as the top North American Island destination by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine and continues to gain international recognition as a top vacation destination
• From 2011 to 2016, the tourism's economic output for the region has increased 20 per cent, generating $2.3 billion in 2016.
• Beautifully photographed, high-quality hard-cover edition; worthy of gift-giving.
• Recipes are tailored to the home cook, rather than the chef (not fussy or fancy).
• Recipes are focused on ingredients that are unique and local to the Pacific Northwest ingredients--hazelnuts, salal berries, fiddleheads, chanterelle mushrooms--and uniquely local name brands--Denman Island Chocolate, Buffalo's Milk Yogurt, Victoria Gin, etc.
• Authors are both from Vancouver Island.

"Acken and Lycopolus are persuasive ambassadors for their beloved Island. Cedar and Salt's visual food tour, complete with lists of local farmers markets and farm-to-table restaurants, makes it hard to resist a trip to Vancouver Island for a real-life food tour." --Foreword Reviews

"It's easy to be inspired by the terroir on and around Vancouver Island, but Salt Spring Island and Victoria food writers D.L. Acken and Emily Lycopolus do a spectacular job of gathering it all up and putting it on a pedestal . . . unpretentious and completely approachable." --Julie Van Rosendaal, Globe and Mail

Lush and eloquent . . . Cedar and Salt is among a new breed of regional Canadian explorations. Inextricable from its location, it's a snapshot of a specific food culture with expansive appeal all the same . . . The choice to structure the book by geography coupled with Acken's atmospheric photography gives readers a deeper sense of place." --Laura Brehaut, Postmedia

"As lovers of food and photography, we can't think of a more inviting activity this season than to hunker down in the kitchen with the newly published, hyper-local Vancouver Island cookbook, Cedar and Salt. (Equally so, ogling and drooling over its pages while cozied up on a comfy chair.)" --The Islandist

"This cookbook focusses a lot on the abundance of Vancouver Island's local ingredients that grow year-round in some cases." --Victoria Buzz

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book that Shaped 2019
Winner of a 2019 Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
Winner of a 2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Canada
Finalist for a 2020 Taste Canada Award
Finalist for a 2020 BC Yukon Book Prize
Finalist for a 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award

Homegrown, modern recipes that feature the most treasured local ingredients from Vancouver Island's forests, fields, farms and sea.

Off the shore of Canada's west coast lies a food lover's island paradise. Vancouver Island's temperate climate nurtures a bounty of wild foods, heritage grains, organic produce, sustainable meats and artisan-crafted edible delights. This thoughtfully curated, beautifully photographed contemporary cookbook brings Vancouver Island's abundant food scene into the kitchens of home cooks everywhere.

Whether it's fresh blackberries, foraged chanterelles and fiddleheads, freshly harvested spot prawns or oysters, line-caught spring salmon, grass-fed beef, or cultivated foods like heritage red fife wheat, these recipes highlight the most sought-after ingredients on the island while honouring the producers and artisans dedicated to sustainable and ethical producing and harvesting.

Try recipes like Craft Beer-Braised Island Beef Brisket, Nettle and Chèvre Ravioli, and Beetroot and Black Walnut Cake featuring Denman Island Chocolate. Divided into four sections--forest, field, farm, and sea--Cedar and Salt places the most excellent local ingredients on a pedestal--and then onto your plate.

Review Citations:

• Foreword 10/26/2019 (EAN 9781771512947, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Acken, DL

Danielle (DL) Acken is a Canadian-born international food writer and photographer who splits her time between London, UK and her farm studio on Canada's beautiful Salt Spring Island. See her work at dlacken.com.

Emily Lycopolus is a recipe developer, the author of six olive oil-focused cookbooks, a level two olive oil sommelier, and the co-founder of eatcreative.ca, a food-driven creative content agency, and the founder of The Olive Oil Critic (oliveoilcritic.com). Her family owns an olive grove in central Italy, where her love of olive oil began. She lives in Victoria, BC.