Reviews (7)

It is what it is
Pretty coffee table book...don't buy for the recipes unless you are a professional.I am a chef and have been at several for and five star establishments.I had the pleasure a few years ago to do a banquet with Susur and he is the real deal.Will his techniques translate to the amateur cook looking to learn from his book?No.These are professional recipes designed to be executed by a top class brigade with years of technique and time to prepare the needed mis en place.But as a professional, the way he approaches food as well as the culinary foundation that he has built for himself is unique and will be appreciated by those in the know.What isn't pretentious about a $50 coffee table book?This book gives exposure to a unique and talented chef who is grounded in solid technique and is able to translate that into well presented and balanced dishes that are not silly fusion.Definetly worth a look.

Susur Lee
This book its all about creativity by a man who has been over looked for too many years as one of the worlds Top Chefs.This book is in one simple word "Awesome"

Susur: Some Thoughts on Perfection in Cuisine
Given the acidity of previous reviews, let me start with some background on myself: I am an American not resident in Canada; I am a non-professional chef -- I cook for myself, my family and my friends. I love food, both from the philosophy that one can learn the history of a country or region by learning about its cuisine and from the perspective that I truly believe we are what we eat ... and the miserable record of American health and longevity is directly due to the poor quality of what we consume.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Chinese Cookery    4. Cookery, Canadian    5. Cookery, Chinese    6. Cooking    7. Cooks    8. International And Ethnic Cookery    9. Ontario    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Reference    12. Regional & Ethnic - Canadian    13. Regional & Ethnic - Chinese    14. Toronto   

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Horseshit...
Not only is the author a bad writer.....jumping from timeline to time line...not able to tell a story in order.....he tries to pose the Hell's Angels as the bad guys. Anyone with a solid head on their shoulders will see thru his rhetoric and realize HA is a stand up orginization that takes care of business like any normal person would. The crimes they were accused of, weren't crimes at all......they were simply the exercising of human rights against agressors that would try to deny said so rights......in fact in the entire book, i found no fault with the Angel's actions, and applaud them for their efforts.

facts and names lacking storytelling
The author have gone though a great deal to find the facts in hundreds of events during many years. He covers hundreds of people. Hundreds of crimes and killings. He could have picked a few events, clubs or people and written their full story. Instead the book hops between people and clubs, between centuries and continents like a school book. Theres no story, but namedropping enough to confuse anyone. Stadnik is one of hundreds of figures skidding though events, none of them with depth. People are shot and stabbed, but you find it difficult to care, since none is in the book for more than a page, and you dont get to know them. It feels disorganised. If it was in cronical order, or at least with chapter names reveiling what every chapter will cover it would be easier. Perhaps its interesting and understandable for the surviving few who were there. If your looking for facts its fine, but its too packed with facts for me. I need a story.

Disturbing Errors for an
This book provides a lot of information on Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels along with information on lesser clubs in Canada.The author, Jerry Langton, however, has made numerous disturbing errors in reporting on certain aspects of the Hells Angels and other clubs.Langton reports on page 26 that prospective members (prospects) are awarded the top rocker (Hells Angels) along with the center patch. Langton then states that the prospects recive the bottom rocker which identifies the chapter's geographical location upon earning full membership.THE OPPISITE IS TRUE for the Hells Angels and ALL OTHER CLUBS!It is hard to believe that Lanfton could make such an obvious error in his writing.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Crime And Criminals    3. Criminology    4. Gang members    5. General    6. History    7. Motorcycle gangs    8. Ontario    9. Quâebec (Province)    10. Sociology    11. True Crime    12. Biography & Autobiography / Military    13. Canada    14. Organized crime   

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A very good stand-alone from Ms. Delany.
Elaine Benson is picking up the pieces of her professional life by helping the rich, elderly, and very independent Moira Madison write her memoirs.Elaine is getting over a husband who left her for a bimbo, after convincing her to give up her own career as a historian in favor of his career as a possible screenwriter.
interesting Canadian amateur sleuth thriller
Elaine Benson wrote two highly regarded biographies of pioneer Canadian women when she fell in love and married.Her husband persuaded her that the money is in screenplays so they teamed up with Elaine doing the research.However, Elaine obtained a divorce and left Hollywood for Toronto and applied for the job of writing the true story of wealthy elderly Miss Moira Madison.She obtains the position, but learns that Donna Smithton had the job for one week before accidentally drowning in nearby Lake Muskoka.
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Subjects:  1. English Canadian Novel And Short Story    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective    4. Mystery & Detective - General    5. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths    6. Mystery/Suspense    7. Suspense    8. Crime & mystery    9. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Canada - History    3. Elgin (County)    4. Elgin (Ont. : County)    5. General    6. Ontario    7. Scots    8. Social life and customs   

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If you want the truth,details and about everthing else about the Black Donnellys,this is the book.

The Only Authentic Account
This is the only authentic account of this tragedy, and there is another sequel by this author that is just as informing.

Bestwriting on the Donnellys
This the best and most interesting of the Donnellys era. One of those books you hate to set down to finish later. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biddulph    2. Biddulph (Ont.)    3. Biography    4. Canada - General    5. Canada - History - 1760-1899    6. Criminals    7. Donnelly family    8. General    9. History    10. History: World    11. Ontario    12. True Crime / Espionage    13. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    14. Canada    15. Criminals - Ontario - Lucan    16. History / Canada    17. Murder - Ontario - Lucan   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Blacks    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 4-6    6. Civil rights    7. Civil rights workers    8. Dresden    9. History    10. History - Canada - General    11. Juvenile Nonfiction    12. Ontario    13. Race discrimination    14. Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism    15. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Situations / Prejudice & Racism   

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Interesting Reading
If you've seen the movie, or know of the case, this book provides some interesting information.It is relatively well-written, contains pictures, and is easy to read.I recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1920-    2. Biography    3. Canada    4. Case studies    5. Dick, Evelyn MacLean,    6. Hamilton    7. Legal History    8. Murder    9. Murder - General    10. Murderers    11. Ontario    12. Rich & Famous    13. Trials (Murder)    14. Trials, litigation, etc    15. True Crime    16. True Crime / Espionage    17. True Crime / Murder   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Emigration and immigration    3. History: American    4. Maritime Provinces    5. Oral History    6. Social History    7. Canada    8. Shipping industries   

Subjects:  1. Anecdotes    2. Biography    3. Canada - General    4. Canada - Ontario    5. History - General History    6. History / Canada    7. History, Local    8. Ontario    9. Social life and customs    10. Travel    11. Travel / Canada    12. Canada   

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For the Stanley Thompson fan!
If you are a fan of Stanley Thompson's courses, this is a reference you will useconstantly.Jim Barclay leads the reader through Stanley's life, then his courses, and he provided a reference of all of the courses with which Thompson was associated, including courses which are reported to be Thompson design, but are not. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1893-1953    2. 20th century    3. Artists, Architects, Photographers    4. Biography    5. Biography & Autobiography    6. Biography / Autobiography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. Canada    9. Design and construction    10. Golf course architects    11. Golf courses    12. History    13. Literary    14. Thompson, Stanley,   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Clergy    3. Lutheran Church    4. Schwerdtfeger, Johann Samuel William   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Pictorial works    8. Social life and customs    9. Toronto (Ont.)    10. History / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)    11. Toronto (Ont.) - History - 20th century - Pictorial works   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada - General    3. Genealogy    4. Guidebooks    5. History    6. History: American    7. Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Toron    8. Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Toronto, Ont.)    9. Reference    10. Toronto (Ont.)    11. Canada    12. History / Canada    13. Local history    14. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. 1917-    2. Biography    3. Cinema/Film: Book    4. De Santis, Giuseppe,    5. Film & Video - History & Criticism    6. General    7. History    8. Italy    9. Motion picture producers and directors    10. Motion pictures    11. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    12. Realism in motion pictures    13. Biography: film, television & music    14. Canada    15. De Santis, Giuseppe    16. Films, cinema   

Subjects:  1. Canada - General    2. Canadian    3. Literary Collections    4. Literature - Classics / Criticism    5. Literature: Classics    6. Women    7. 19th century fiction    8. Biography & Autobiography / Women    9. Biography & Autobiography-Women    10. Canada    11. History-Canada - General    12. Literary Collections / Canadian    13. London,ontario,emily chesley,reading circle,speculativve fiction,canadiana,canadian,victorian,science fiction,humor,poetry,parody,trafford,Mark A. Rayner,1412004934,1-4120-0493-4,03-0862,030862   

Subjects:  1. 1940-    2. 20th century    3. Biography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Description and travel    6. McFadden, David,    7. Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)    8. Poets, Canadian    9. Popular American Fiction    10. Travel    11. Journeys    12. McFadden, David   

Subjects:  1. 1752-1806    2. 18th century    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Canada - General    8. Canada - History - 1760-1899    9. Historical - General    10. History    11. Lieutenant governors    12. Ontario    13. Simcoe, John Graves,    14. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    15. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    16. Biography: historical    17. Simcoe, John Graves   

Subjects:  1. 1905-    2. Anecdotes    3. Architecture    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Canada    6. Country life    7. Historical - General    8. Medonte (Canton)    9. Medonte (Township)    10. Oille, Lucille    11. Ontario    12. Travel    13. Vie rurale    14. Wells, Kenneth McNeill,    15. Wells, Kenneth McNeill   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada    3. Criminals    4. General    5. Hamilton    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. Ontario    10. Organized crime    11. Perri, Rocco,    12. Prohibition    13. b. 1887    14. History / General    15. Offenders   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada    3. Decorations of honor    4. Elite (Social sciences)    5. Upper class